Wal-Mart - $30.
Posted on 10/27/2023 4:45:47 AM PDT by marktwain
A close friend told me of a high school field trip he went on in 1975. The trip was to a slaughterhouse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. There, he encountered a Maxim Silencer attached to a .22 single-shot pistol. The Maxim and pistol were displayed on the wall. The display said the silenced pistol had been used to slaughter over two million cattle before it was retired, presumably when a captive bolt system was substituted.
Research revealed Sioux Falls was close to where my friend went to school. It has a huge slaughterhouse industry, started in 1909. The number of animals processed there each year numbers in the millions. By 1949, 800 cattle were being processed there each day. According to a source online, it takes about two minutes to move an animal on the processing line. If we limit a day to eight hours, there would be 240 cattle processed in a day. If we limit the days used in a year to 200, there would be 48,000 cattle processed in a year, and it would take 42 years to process 2 million cattle. The plant was started in 1909, the same year the Maxim Silencer became available. There was enough time for the Maxim system to be used for 2 million heads of cattle.
As a practical matter, the plant operates 24/7 in shifts, 365 days a year, so there was enough time to process millions of heads on several different lines, including time used for regular maintenance.
Another friend, Don Cowling, was involved in research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which included retrieving cattle organs and blood from freshly killed animals. He reported the use of a .22 single shot in the slaughterhouse in the 1960’s. That .22 did not
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Why not both? For only 5 bucks.
i guess it’s safe to say it’s a smooth bore now...
.22 rifle barrels last for many, many rounds. I do not know how many, but at least 200,000. If the rifling was wore out, there would likely have been baffle strikes, destroying the silencer. Soft lead bullets, good lubricant, might take a couple of million rounds...
I have an early Nylon 66 that we know has been fired at least 200K times and its still functional and reliable
England too. You can buy them in 3-packs in hardware stores."
I believe they're also unregulated and cheap in Oz and New Zealand.
The Nylon .22 is a tough rifle. Brazil sold a copy for a while. It was very inexpensive, and a good rifle.
They used to be easy to get in at least one Australian state.
well, two, is a couple...
Sure, do it!
My Jeep GC HEMI V8 has a sweet 3” Borla Exhaust that screams... I like it. Makes it sound like a PO’d banshee.
Wal-Mart - $30.
Yowza! You must be a crazy speed demon, setting off car alarms as you cruise through the neighborhood. 🤣
MY first full time job was considered a very good one.
Worked in the offices of Kroger Division in Madison, Wis.
Got a Gross check of $ 52.00 for 40 hours===$1.30 an hour.
Feeling a little nostalgic:
I worked for Publicker Industries a BOOZ company in Philly for $42 a week, and I had to fight for that.
bttt!
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