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Once in awhile (it usually happens when I should be working) - an irrelevant and unrelated asynchronous thought will pop into my head with all the abruptness of an echoing popcorn fart in a large empty room: it's not something to lose sleep over but it does demand inordinate amounts of processing power from the higher brain functions... Didjya ever notice that hardly anybody ever gets pistol whipped anymore?
When I was a kid even the vilest of villains could be sent to on a sprawling, painless trip to La La Land with a nice easy clip behind the ear. For Matt Dillon and Festus it was like Captain Kirk putting his phasers on stun - the bad guys hit the ground like a sack of wet cement, and were promptly hog tied and properly hung or incarcerated after a hasty (but fair) trial. The Cartwrights weren't half bad at it either. I think Cullen Bohannon pistol whipped Mr. Durant (he should have shot that no-good sumbi*ch) but other than that - it seems that pistol whipping is no longer part and parcel of pistolcraft! Indiana Jones didn't even crack his whip or raise a fist when confronted by a scimitar wielding skunk - he just shot him with contempt and that was that for that!
I don't think it would surprise anyone to learn that I was pistol whipped on a regular basis. Back in the day our cap guns were as heavy and well made as anything you fellas have in the gun safe: they were all metal, maybe some plastic on the grips - and flashier than anything coming out of Les Baer's skunkworx! When it came time for Cowboys & Indians I was always a villain or an expendable sidekick because I was the youngest and one day I was caught thieving cattle or Billy McEwit's bubble gum - and he brought his cap firing .45 down on my noggin and I got laid out flat! I got 6 stitches out of that and then I got pounded again by the big kids because the incident led to our parents confiscating our guns, bikes and baseball mitts for a week!
So I'm looking at the guns these days and I am seeing a lot of bumpers on the auto gun magazines...and if you tried to goon a guy with a thick skull like yours Truly with such a weapon, he'd probably spit in your eye instead of folding up. And it seems every second revolver you see these days have the soft Hogue or Pachmyer rubber grips on them.
One is tempted to regard this as a joke (and for all intents and purposes that's the way it's written) - but for the black powder geeks this is serious business. When the swabbies were repelling pirates with their flintlock pistols, or going hand to hand with them on the beach you had one shot - and then your pistol's merit relied on it's handiness as a club! Question: does the modern pistol still have any merit in such a role? I think it might for the single actions and maybe some of the bigger magnums...but other than that...if you are in the soup and fighting your way out, once your pistol runs dry the best course of action, tactically speaking...is to throw it at your assailant!
When I was a kid even the vilest of villains could be sent to on a sprawling, painless trip to La La Land with a nice easy clip behind the ear. For Matt Dillon and Festus it was like Captain Kirk putting his phasers on stun - the bad guys hit the ground like a sack of wet cement, and were promptly hog tied and properly hung or incarcerated after a hasty (but fair) trial. The Cartwrights weren't half bad at it either. I think Cullen Bohannon pistol whipped Mr. Durant (he should have shot that no-good sumbi*ch) but other than that - it seems that pistol whipping is no longer part and parcel of pistolcraft! Indiana Jones didn't even crack his whip or raise a fist when confronted by a scimitar wielding skunk - he just shot him with contempt and that was that for that!
I don't think it would surprise anyone to learn that I was pistol whipped on a regular basis. Back in the day our cap guns were as heavy and well made as anything you fellas have in the gun safe: they were all metal, maybe some plastic on the grips - and flashier than anything coming out of Les Baer's skunkworx! When it came time for Cowboys & Indians I was always a villain or an expendable sidekick because I was the youngest and one day I was caught thieving cattle or Billy McEwit's bubble gum - and he brought his cap firing .45 down on my noggin and I got laid out flat! I got 6 stitches out of that and then I got pounded again by the big kids because the incident led to our parents confiscating our guns, bikes and baseball mitts for a week!
So I'm looking at the guns these days and I am seeing a lot of bumpers on the auto gun magazines...and if you tried to goon a guy with a thick skull like yours Truly with such a weapon, he'd probably spit in your eye instead of folding up. And it seems every second revolver you see these days have the soft Hogue or Pachmyer rubber grips on them.
One is tempted to regard this as a joke (and for all intents and purposes that's the way it's written) - but for the black powder geeks this is serious business. When the swabbies were repelling pirates with their flintlock pistols, or going hand to hand with them on the beach you had one shot - and then your pistol's merit relied on it's handiness as a club! Question: does the modern pistol still have any merit in such a role? I think it might for the single actions and maybe some of the bigger magnums...but other than that...if you are in the soup and fighting your way out, once your pistol runs dry the best course of action, tactically speaking...is to throw it at your assailant!
