Apparently my tongue was too firmly in my cheek when I called my 1866 trapdoor .50-70 "tacticool."
But it was designed as a tactical rifle, chambered for the the first centerfire cartridge standardized for the the U.S.military, through a an exceptionally successful rebuilding of earlier rifles. It proved VERY tactical (and perhaps even tacticool) in the Wagon Box Fight of 1867, and afterward was one of the major factors in the military history of the American West. Maybe that does not fit the present definition of tacticool, but probably exceeds the requirements.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
