RE: [DL] Speed Loadin'

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@poboxes.com>]

The step from single-action to double-action isn't too great,
engineering-wise.  Conceptually, it was probably pretty big at the time.
So, yes, Deadlands might've moved the introduction of the double-action
pistol earlier a bit, but not so much that it qualifies as Mad Science.
They did it probably to just give players a choice.

You did notice that the Peacemaker is listed both under single-action and
double-action, right?  That'd be the choice I refer to.

That, and just because the rules say Colt Peacemaker doesn't mean Colt was
the only company making handguns of that size/type/capacity, nor was the
Peacemaker the only option from Colt.  But "Peacemaker" is a nice generic
term, kinda like "Kleenex" or "Xerox."  (At least in the US.)  You put a
bullet thru the brain of a zombie with a Remington, it'll lie there just a
"peacefully" as if you had used a Colt ;-)

Jeff
Marshal of the Dynomite Gang
"How many sticks do we need to make Rattler entrails rain down 100 yards
away?"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
> Behalf Of Munther, Sven
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 3:56 AM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: RE: [DL] Speed Loadin'
>
>
> Ross wrote:
> >but messing with the (C/U)SA's heritage of violence is nothing to take
> lightly
>
> OK, maybe I am a Greenhorn, but why IS the Peacemaker listed as a double
> action
> revolver. Is it to show the technological progress of the Weird West or is
> it
> just a bug?
>
> Sven
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Coburn [mailto:coburn@sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 5:58 AM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [DL] Speed Loadin'
>
>
> on 10/4/00 11:57 PM, John Goff at JohnGoff@deadlands.com wrote:
>
> > You're right--it appears to vary with model years. However, I
> can't find a
> > single picture of an early model Peacemaker (or Army for that
> matter) that
> > doesn't have the blocking screw...
> >
> > Eh. I'm going to let it slide. After all, we let dead people walk around
> > too. ;-)
>
> I may have to alert the NRA you know; walking dead people is one
> thing, but
> messing with the (C/U)SA's heritage of violence is nothing to
> take lightly,
> sir!
>
> Ross Coburn
> coburn@sympatico.ca
>
>
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