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MoonEyes
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1. "RE: Gun of the Week: Winchester 94"
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   As with the other posts, a very interesting one, containing lots of interesting info.

>they had an unfortunate habit of all going off
>at once in the magazine sometimes, which was unpopular

Definetly understatement of the month, and possibly the year.


>which was... not considered underpowered by anyone not
>shooting at very large hornèd animals.

Contender for first place, but not QUITE there.


>gunology

As the expression goes, is that a technical term?


>In a revolver, this was done (as previously discussed) by leaving one
>chamber empty and making sure it was the one at top dead center when
>(In practice it often wasn't empty empty,
>it just didn't have a round in it. A lot of people, particularly out
>West, carried some rolled-up money in there. The old joke was that if
>you lost a gunfight, at least the townsfolk wouldn't have to pay to
>bury you.)

Really cool, something I had NO idea about.


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  RE: Gun of the Week: Winchester 94 MoonEyes Dec-21-15 1
      RE: Gun of the Week: Winchester 94 Star Ranger4 Dec-21-15 2
          RE: Gun of the Week: Winchester 94 StClair Dec-24-15 4
   side fact Gryphonadmin Dec-21-15 3
   RE: Gun of the Week: Winchester 94 thorr_kan Jan-05-16 5
      RE: Gun of the Week: Winchester 94 Gryphonadmin Jan-06-16 6
          RE: Gun of the Week: Winchester 94 thorr_kan Jan-07-16 7
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   RE: Gun of the Week: Winchester 94 Wiregeek Jun-25-17 12
      RE: Gun of the Week: Winchester 94 Gryphonadmin Jun-25-17 13
          RE: Gun of the Week: Winchester 94 Wiregeek Jun-27-17 14
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