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Offline Delmonico

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Re: Where did people buy coach guns from during the Wild West?
« Reply #20 on: November 17, 2023, 12:43:08 PM »
Another thought, the term sawed off, if it has a factory short barrel is it really sawed off or is this just another misused word.
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Re: Where did people buy coach guns from during the Wild West?
« Reply #21 on: November 17, 2023, 03:06:44 PM »
and did they really call them street sweepers back then or is that another Hollywood term?
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Re: Where did people buy coach guns from during the Wild West?
« Reply #22 on: November 17, 2023, 07:45:18 PM »
If you're talking about 'Tombstone' - it was called a 'street howitzer'...

'Street Sweeper' came about closer to WWI, along with 'Trench Broom' - also including the Thompson SMG in that sobriquet.

The short-barrelled shotgun had a number of names and a myriad of uses - pretty much none for a regular citizen, but since 'Tombstone' came out, every C&WAS scenario includes them.

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Re: Where did people buy coach guns from during the Wild West?
« Reply #23 on: November 18, 2023, 02:25:44 AM »
Barrel length for coach top riders would remain about the same regardless of the era in question, I would think.According to the redoubtable wikipedia, the British Mail regulations 1788–1816 stated that every mail coach should have a guard with one 14" barrel blunderbuss and 2 single shot pistols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunderbuss

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