Looks like there used to be dueling clubs that used wax bullets, and supposedly, this was a way to train in the event of actually having to demand satisfaction.

the conduct of the affair is carried through as on the “field of honour,” so that when the time comes — if it ever does come — for the scholars to take part in a serious duel they may acquit themselves with credit to themselves and disaster to their adversary — although this latter point is not of much importance.

I did a few Cowboy Fast Draw matches where we used wax .45 bullets fueled by a 209 shotgun primer, and those still hit the steal target with authority, not sure how they were fueled back then, but I’m not volunteering for a reenactment.

Interestingly, this sport of ‘bloodless dueling’ seemed to have established itself in, believe it or not, NYC by the Carnegie Sword and Pistol club.

h/t The Bartitsu Society

Minneapolis Park Board girls rifle team in 1920

From the Minnesota Historical Society

Winchester Model 1892

Bet Joan Peterson never smiled that much……..

lifted from Annie Oakley Wild West Festival

I have no idea what kind of pistol that would be.

Lifted from Women with Guns

On a side note, there are stories of old timers from days of yore using duplex loads of various grades of black to deliver the goods, but that’s note something I confident in doing for various reasons.

Anyway, things went well on the first stage, at the end of the second stage, there was a few failure to feeds.  So I took a bore snake and ran it through.  Turns out on the third stage it didn’t help.  Got two shots off before it stopped feeding.  I figured I was just limp wristing it.  So I finished the match using smokeless and my other 1911.

So this morning I took my Colt apart to clean it, and noticed quite a bit of fouling in the chamber, so much that a cartridge couldn’t fit.  I thought this was odd, since I’ve never had this problem before.  Maybe it was the weather?  It was sorta of dry, and fouling from black is best kept moist, and there was a lack of moisture in the chamber area.  Could have been a lack of loob?  Maybe the lead absorbed the loob?  Who knows……

Lesson of the day is to bring basic cleaning sply’s.  A quick swab of Windex after each stage would have prevented this.

Shit happens I reckon.

(but I did get complements on delivering the big BOOMS)

Reckon it’s time for a another safe.

Winchester 1892 is where my money is, originally I thought it was a Colt Lightning Pump, then I noticed the leever.

From: Ladies and Rifles

The problem is, learning about sex from porn is like learning about firearms from action movies. Action movies sacrifice realism for the sake of storyline or a really cool explosion. Action movies don’t teach you gun safety. Action movies don’t talk about alternatives to violence. And action movies use some tropes—such as the infinite ammo supply—that may move the story along but don’t reflect reality.

And I couldn’t help but laugh out loud, cause the type of people who promote and believe outrageous claims about firearms, are cut from the same cloth as the people who believe all women should look and act like porn stars. Which is probably why so many men in the antigunblobby look like they’ve never kissed a girl, and let out their obvious sexual frustrations out through lame-ass attempts at minstreling……..

In 1861, after Texas seceded from the union, and all the federal troops left the Texas frontier forts, Ben McCullough cut a deal with Sam Colt to ship 1,000 of the new Colt 1860 Army revolvers to Texas for frontier defense. 500 successfully made it past the union naval blockade and were used by Texas Rangers to patrol the frontier. 

During the opening shot, you can see the ball leave the muzzle……

What is with the guy in the mask?

From Ladies and Rifles