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Tango01  | 10 Jan 2024 5:10 p.m. PST |
…An attempt to answer the most frequently-asked questions
concerning the Battle of the Little Big Horn Of possible interest?
Free to read
PDF link
Armand
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| ron skirmisher | 11 Jan 2024 9:24 a.m. PST |
My wife and I rode horseback all over the Battlefield in June of 2022, our Crow Guide/owner of the Horse's had lived on the
Battlefield his whole life, The only bullet's he has ever
found have been, Mini-Ball and round shot, mostly in dry summers and only by accident -- The park personal feel only
a few Indians had modern firearms, ??? 200 ?? 400 based on
what would be a modern firearm, not flintlocks and ACW type capocks. Of course after this fight they had a lot more
spingfield carbine's and Pistol's. |
| Tango01 | 11 Jan 2024 3:21 p.m. PST |
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| Pyrate Captain | 11 Jan 2024 4:22 p.m. PST |
Cap and ball doesn't necessarily mean just ball, and they were around for along time after 1873. I would think caliber would be very telling. |
| ron skirmisher | 11 Jan 2024 8:28 p.m. PST |
Yes, as kids mostly found Mini'e balls of different sizes and
round ones also. Our guide was about ?? 40 ?? 50.
His House is in the San Arc circle area close to Medicene Tail Coulee. |
| Tango01 | 12 Jan 2024 3:58 p.m. PST |
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| DJCoaltrain | 01 Feb 2024 3:03 p.m. PST |
Generally speaking, the troopers would have carried issued 7.5" SAA Colts .45 caliber pistols, and trap door .55 caliber carbines. The officers carried a mixture of revolver pistols and rifles. The Indians a mixture of everthing. The movement of some rifles across the battlefield can be traced by the firing pin marks on the expended brass. There are books written about the firearms, especially after the modern day pairie fires, which exposed brass and slugs on the battlefield. |
| DJCoaltrain | 02 Feb 2024 6:41 p.m. PST |
Mea Culpa! I wrote the above in a bit of a hurry. And, I botched it! They carried carbines that used .45-55 cartridges. I offer this article by way of an apology. :^( |
| DJCoaltrain | 02 Feb 2024 6:42 p.m. PST |
Crap! Seems I can't even apologize correctly!
link |
| P Carl Ruidl | 22 Apr 2024 5:48 a.m. PST |
DJ: Captain Thomas French of M Troop carried the Infantry Rifle and used the .45-70, while Lt. Varnum (A Troop/Scouts) used the carbine with the .45-70 round also. French liked the range, Varnum wanted more hitting power (and apparently the black and blue shoulder that accompanied it). |
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