RE: [DL] The Munchkin Twins

["Clint Black" <cblack@ohtinc.com>]

>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.


As far as westerns go, "The Rifleman" of course used a rifle, but I think he
just carried it.  The closest I can think of is "Wanted: Dead or Alive"
where Josh Randall carried a sawed off carbine in a specially made holster.
It wasn't a back holster though just a "normal" belt holster.

Personally, if the "twins" have spent the points to have Quick Draw: Rifle,
I'd let them have it.  But if they haven't... well, you might want to
mention to the Marshall that QD requires specialization just like shootin'
or fightin'.


>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.

Yes, the staple of westerns is an extra loaded cylinder (much like the other
Clint used in "Pale Rider").  The other answer though is no, not every
revolver can be reloaded in such a manner more easily than just replacing
the bullets by hand.  However, as someone else said, a Marshall may overlook
this "fact" in the interest of the genre and simplifying the game.

If you want to outshine the munchkins, get a Schofield.  It's in "Law Dogs"
which was 1st edition.  I think you can reload all 6 shots with a Fair (5)
Speed Load roll (or maybe it was 3 shots).  Plus, the Schofield was designed
by a cavalry man (named Schofield oddly) to be reloadable while on
horseback.  You can't do that with a cylinder.

Speaking of Speed Load, are the munchkins rolling this?  Or do they just
take the time to replace the cylinders?  Or do they think they're using
speed loaders instead of new cylinders?


Clint Black

"You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Ghost Rock, son. Nothing else in the
world smells like that. I love the smell of ghost rock in the morning. You
know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over
I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Yank body. The
smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...
victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."