Re: [DL] The Munchkin Twins

[matt ryan <mrr15@cornell.edu>]

Hi,

Let me clarify my initial post and apologize for the confusion.

The munchkin twins carry pistols as well as rifles.

The scabbard question pertains to the rifles. I know certain films have the 
protagonists carrying sawed off shotguns in back holsters. Of the two films 
mentioned so far as examples (Romancing the Stone, and the Evil Dead 
movies) neither is a Western, per se. Sawed off shot guns in mocked up back 
sheaths work fine in my HOE campaign. I'd just never seen them in a 
western. Sawed off shotguns are much shorter than rifles, even carbines. 
Yes, I know carbines can be fairly short in length.

Now, the speed loader thing. I know there is a contemporary speed loader. 
This is a different thing than a separate cylinder for a revolver. To my 
knowledge, and I'll be the first to admit that I don't have much gun 
knowledge, a separate cylinder is just that, a separate machined part of a 
manufactured piece, while a speed loader is an additional accessory used to 
rapidly reload revolvers.

Now, the question of "did speed loaders actually exist in 1878" isn't as 
important as, are speed loaders merely an extra, loaded cylinder? The 
essential bit of this is: can every revolver, hence every pistol, have an 
additional cylinder with which a dude can quickly reload all of his 
pistol's ammunition.

Lastly, I'd like to thank everyone who has responded to my initial post.

matt


>>They also have speed loaders coming out their
>>butts. I think all this is to avoid reloading in combat, which isn't fun,
>>agreed.
>
>Speedloader for Winchester Rifle?!?!?  Unless they have some sort of Mad 
>Scientist Gizmo,  These just don't exist.  Bullets on a Winchester are 
>stored one behind the other in a long tube under the Barrel which doesn't 
>come off.  So the only way to reload is one bullet at a time.
>
>>So, anyone else heard of the crossed rifle scabbard deal? I thought a rifle
>>scabbard attached to a saddle.
>
>Well anything could be rigged up.  Ash had a Holster for his Shotgun on 
>his back.  and you could even technically quickdraw them but I would give 
>a major modifier.
>
>>How about speed loaders? What exactly are these things? I know what a
>>contemporary speed loader is, but that only works with a revolver that can
>>be broken in half when opened. Did all western guns break open like that?
>
>Pistol have speedloaders.  Rifles don't.