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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2020 12:27:47 GMT -5
I think people also need to take into consideration that there are many people who are known as converted southpaws, which means they learned to fight left-handed even if they are naturally right-handed. I myself am right-handed but box as though I'm left-handed. The same logic can be applied to swordsmen and archers and gunfighters.
As for The Kid's preferred weapon of choice, I have a black powder revolver made by the Hawes Firearms Company which is a .44 caliber and it must be noted that when cylinders were made for shells only then did it become a .45 caliber revolver. So in all actuality, a .44 caliber revolver was a .45 caliber revolver once you replaced the cylinder to house shells instead of black powder and a lead ball.
I've heard all different kinds of things about what kind of gun was The Kid's preferred choice, but in my view that's like saying a man cannot box as well with 8oz gloves as he could with 10's or 12's because he preferred more padding. It's logically incoherent.
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Post by kerry on Jan 11, 2020 0:23:58 GMT -5
BTK risked his life to retrieve the rifle Sherriff Brady was carrying...he wanted to be photographed with his rifle in the main street of Fort Sumner but he hobbled over to the armoury in the Lincoln Courthouse and selected a shotgun to fend off Olinger..when he escaped town he only took the two .44 pistols with him from the armoury - no rifle -he was going to ground and eventually even sent the horse back to Lincoln!
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Post by kerry on Jan 24, 2020 23:47:31 GMT -5
Both BTK and Brushy stated a pistol was discarded after the escape from Lincoln...this pistol would have been Bell's .45 --the two .44 pistols were at Fort Sumner on July 14 and not recovered by Pat Garrett and his deputies.
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Post by RonBk on Jan 4, 2021 3:22:02 GMT -5
One other thing that could be considered is the possibility that there might be a second holster and gun in the original tintype on Billys left hip that is obscured by his clothing? If so, then the argument falls completely that Billy was right-handed because of a righthandside-holster..
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2021 21:32:52 GMT -5
Single action .44's. He took two of them from the Lincoln County Courthouse during his escape from the Lincoln Jail. John Tunstall gave him a Winchester 73' .44-40 as a present. The Winchester 73' rifle and the single action colt .44 pistol take the same ammunition and it is supported other historical documents that he preferred single action colt .44's.
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