Forty-three don't rhyme with much of anything.
Nope, no alliteration either. .44 and .45 got it, .43 hasn't; it just don't sound right:
"Men were shot down for the sake of fun or to hear the noise of their forty-three guns."
"Went out last night to take a little round, I met Little Sadie and I blowed her down. I went right home and I went to bed with a forty-three smokeless under my head."
"I wore my forty-three so long I've made my shoulder sore."
"And I"m tellin' you son, it ain't no fun, lookin' straight down a forty-three."
