Seems to me I've seen a photo of a .32 auto described as JM Brownings personel pocket gun.I remember hearing that he preferred to carry a .32ACP.
Why would he carry a sidearm when he could simply smite his foes with a lightning bolt?
At least allow me to add the fact that the lightning bolts will come out of his rear end.
I mean, do you guys really want to be responsible for starting this type of ghost story?
I remember he'd started out building harmonica rifles. These were caplock guns with a sliding bar holding loaded chambers. A lever would push the chamber forward over the end of the breech and lock it in place with a wedge. Similar to the nagant except a linear movement rather than as a revolver.
These were a low cost option to the lever action repeaters, and could use loose powder and shot.
Would that have been the Winchester high wall and or low wall single shots.Actually it was his Dad that designed and built a "harmonica gun," at least according to the book "John Browning, American Gunmaker."
John Browning's first design was a single-shot rifle. He went on from there, obviously.
And Gunkid, but he was a troll and a SOB
One fatefull day he fire it at a mighty oak tree, and Chuck Norris emerged from the smoldering hole.
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Actually it was his Dad that designed and built a "harmonica gun," at least according to the book "John Browning, American Gunmaker."
John Browning's first design was a single-shot rifle. He went on from there, obviously.
Would that have been the Winchester high wall and or low wall single shots.
I knew JM Browning had not invented the Harmonica gun, But I believe that he learned the trade while building them.
He had even gone so far as to make a very small and light .32 caliber, which he thought would have a stronger appeal in the European markets. He was partial to the lighter gun and at home in Ogden had taken to carrying it in a back pocket. Evenings, when he found time, he would slip a couple boxes of ammunition in his coat and walk up into the hills to fire it. He aclso practiced quick-drawing it, waiting until he had the trick perfected before he showed it to a surprised Matt.
John Browning, American Gunmaker
I don't know who laid down the law that nothing under .380 would do. I'm thinking Cooper... I know some of the older writers listed .32 and up. Just an arbitrary statement.Hey, if a .32 pistol was good enough for JMB, how come everyone here is always saying nothing under a .45 is worth a damn?
JMB was a Mormon?Brother Browning would have worn a "MItt Romney" Button not Huckabee...