[DL] RE: deadlands-digest.20031208

["Ray C." <r_a_c_@hotmail.com>]

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>
> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:56:38 -0500
> From: dgwyn@colba.net
> Subject: RE: [DL] British Rifle
>
> Hi,
> 	According to Back East: The South, the British are supplying the
> CSA with guns and ammunition.  Therefore, there is a reasonably reliable
> supply of the cartridge in Southern areas. It is also likely that
> someone in the South has started manufacturing them. Finally, given that
> the round is more or less the standard Confederate issue, it is likely
> that new Southern designed rifles would be designed to chamber it.
>     Daniel Gwyn
>
> "Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
> They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The
> days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow."
>
> Théoden from Peter Jackson's The Two Towers
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You're right about the steady supply, but that's a steady supply from the 
sea...  And I believe the folks in the US know what happens when you try to 
resupply from there.

As for the Confederate manufacture of British Rounds...  They can barely 
produce ANYTHING (They're melting down candlesticks for brass), and while 
that's improving, the Confederate Bureau of Ordinance (General Josiah 
Gorgas), had very little luck standardizing a round to use...  Even guns of 
the same make and model sometimes didn't have the same calibre (The LeMat is 
an example of that, .40 being only the most COMMON calibre for them.).

It was a common problem in the Victorian Era...  Companies did *NOT* want to 
cooperate in the least, and it took a strong government stance to make them 
do so, and the Governments didn't really want to do that, either...  Really, 
it wasn't until the Cold War that various countries were able to finally 
standardize on weaponry.

Although, it does read here in the Epitaph 2 that the Confederate Firm of 
Cook & Brothers is, indeed, producing ammo for it, so, yes, ammo is at least 
fairly common for the rifle...

See what happens when you don't fully research stuff, guys???  You make a 
Mule of yourself...  Or was that Donkey...  Ah, never mind.

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