Originally Posted by mark shubert
Originally Posted by kaywoodie
Mark,

Up there in your dad’s neck of the woods that could have been one of Kit Carson or Lucian Maxwell’s rifle balls!!!!

😉



I was thinking a Ft Union soldier - but you may be right! (Ain't that far from Rayado, as the mountain man travels).


Funny you mention Ft. Union. If they had any company riflemen there that were issued M1841 "American Yagers", the arsenal issue cartridges for that rifle had the patch hand sewed around a .54 calibre round ball!!!

Just some useless trivia for the morning!

Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester

"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."

WS