The Box O' Truth - 2 .45 Single Shot BP Pistols

[arcticap]

This picture laden article also has a lot of relevance to the lethal performance of black powder revolvers.
There's penetration but no round ball expansion when the .44 balls pass through water jugs.

Enjoy! :hatsoff:
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/edu66.htm

 

[Zonie]

I had to chuckle at using 30 grains of black powder in a CVA Derringer.

It is too bad he didn't have a .50 cal rifle with him to shoot jugs with.
At the distance he was shooting several of those jugs would have been blown apart with a stout .50 caliber load and in my own deprived way I kinda enjoy watching people take a bath. Especially when it is unexpected. :rotf:

 

[Blizzard of '93]

back in the day you have to remember that no antibiotics were available and if a shot went into the vitals the poor recepient was doomed to a very slow and agonizing death likely even if the ball/slug could be dug out.
if into soft tissue in a member the only alternative was amputation - hopefully clean and quick if a bone was busted or time was spent before seeing a sawbones the poor 'shotie' was doomed all the same.
bad situation for someone shot w/BP pistol. maybe that's why folks were so polite? fear of slow agonizing death?

 

[brubincam]

-----YEAH---ever notice in the TV westerns when someone gets shot in the shoulder, how they always say its only a shoulder wound--YEAH RIGHT----- :bull: :bull: :bull:

 

[Sham66]

Howdy!

Not meaning to be morbid, or disrespectful to a fallen President, but wasn't this the kind of gun Lincoln was shot with? I know he was shot in the head, but didn't he survive for a while. I am just wondering what the powder charge in Boothe's gun might have been.

But then again, I think RFK lived for several hours after being shot in the head at close range with a .22.

I think that derringer can do some real damage to vital organs from across the table.

James

 

[Zonie]

No doubt about it. That .44 cal ball can do some serious damage.

Yes, Lincoln was shot with a Deringer but there are Deringers and there are Derringers.

The pistol that was used to shoot Lincoln was quite a bit smaller than the CVA version shown in the vidio. The caliber was about the same though.