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WBH used Navy Colts. .36 caliber, low velocity, and round balls. Not very deadly by today's standards. Equal, roughly, to the the .380 ACP. Then you have to consider that those balls were soft lead, so they tended to badly deform if they hit a rib, increasing their destructiveness.
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Best post on this site in a while.
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WBH used Navy Colts. .36 caliber, low velocity, and round balls. Not very deadly by today's standards. Equal, roughly, to the the .380 ACP. Then you have to consider that those balls were soft lead, so they tended to badly deform if they hit a rib, increasing their destructiveness. But limiting penetration...
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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I read somewhere that most of the interviews Earp gave to Lake we’re tall tails told by Earp to build his reputation.
This doesn’t sound that way to me. Wyatt talks about what he’s seen and heard from others, but says nothing of himself or his own experience. And it agrees with what other more experienced folks have said, which tells one that it’s good advice.
Thanks for posting this.
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I read somewhere that most of the interviews Earp gave to Lake we’re tall tails told by Earp to build his reputation.
This doesn’t sound that way to me. Wyatt talks about what he’s seen and heard from others, but says nothing of himself or his own experience. And it agrees with what other more experienced folks have said, which tells one that it’s good advice.
Thanks for posting this.
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Wyatt, like others that had been there and done it, usually didn’t feel the need to brag about the things they’d done. I’m guessing he was telling the truth. Not tall tails.
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Good article and good advice. It seems believable to me.
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Excellent post and thread!
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I have seen this article by Wyatt Earp before and he apparently wrote it for publication in a magazine that was either the Saturday Evening Post or Collier's in the 1920s or 30s. Does anyone recall?
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I have seen this article by Wyatt Earp before and he apparently wrote it for publication in a magazine that was either the Saturday Evening Post or Collier's in the 1920s or 30s. Does anyone recall?
Norm Wyatt didn't write this, Stuart Lake did from his interviews with Wyatt.
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