Did You Know?
In the time it took to ram a charge and a lead ball down the barrel of a single shot rifle, Comanche Indians could shoot six arrows or run 150 yards with spear and tomahawk.
In the time it took to ram a charge and a lead ball down the barrel of a single shot rifle, Comanche Indians could shoot six arrows or run 150 yards with spear and tomahawk.
God made man, and Sam Colt made him equal. God bless Sam Colt.
Kill one Comanche and the others would rush in thinking he had to reload and he would kill another. He had only eleven shots (lost powder horn) and lasted 3 hours until his partners came to back him up.
Samuel Colt was one of the great innovators of the American nineteenth century - a time when the government and its employees knew enough to refrain from hogtying its most creative citizens.
Were he alive today, Colt would find the bureaucratic resistance to his creativity very - and perhaps prohibitively - daunting, and America would be without yet another series of advances.