Re: Adobe Walls

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: Rich wrote:
: : It's been some time since I've read up on him, but the thing that stands out, in my mind, was the Adobe Walls affair ... a small group of Buffalo Hunters, holed up in these adobe ruins ... kind of an Alamo in reverse.

: : It didn't work out for the Indians, though they greatly outnumbered their foe ... those Buffalo guns, and the cover, proved to be too much.

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: Siyo Rich ---

: speaking of those buff'ler guns, I have a gun magazine that did a great story on that battle, and in paticular took an in depth look at Billy Dixon's "mile long shot" (off the top of my head I think it was actually a quarter mile).
: For those who dont know, the following day, as the buffalo hunters stood outside, some Indians appeared on a high mesa in the distance. Billy Dixon was handed a big "50" (.50 caliber Sharps), & he shot at the figures. About the time they figured he'd missed, one of the Indians reared up on his horse & dropped. His comrades scooped him up & away they rode.
: No blood trail was found, they figured the Indian just got one heck of a gut ache. Dixon himself dismissed it as a lucky shot.
: At any rate, this goes to illustrate the power of these big rifles (until recently, I myself owned a repo .45 caiber Sharps carbine and can attest to their "whomp" --- hehe)...
: There were those in the scientific community who thought that Dixon's shot could not be possible, so the Army invited them & a gun magazine staff out to put it to the test with a radar system they had that could track a fly on a football field.
: I have the results, but needless to say, they proved beyond a doubt that these big guns could effectively hit at those ranges & well beyond (and also silenced some critics of the shooting scenes in "Quigley Down Under" as well!)...
: As a post script, many moons later, Billy Dixon requested and is buried at Adobe Walls.

: sign me a fan of both
: Quannah Parker & Buff'ler Guns!
: "Champ"


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