Whether carbine length or full length musket, the stout wood protection over the fragile magazine tube made sense.

Fuzzy on this, but I THINK that that same bunch (NWMP) were savvy enough to pick the S&W Scofield in .44 Russian as their sidearm.

....well armed crew.

GTC

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