Sedalia Dave

@Roger Rapid has a good white paper on lightning rifles. Lassiter is one of the better CAS gunsmiths.

Interesting.

Watch the videos, there is a lot more to it. It really is worth the time.

Yep I had seen a reference to an insert in period bullets and wanted to know why some did and others didn't

He is very informative but talks really slow. If you change the playback speed to 1.25 it really helps.

Proof positive that Prohibition was about people making money and not about the evils of alcohol.

The marketing pushes the large loop lever as a feature that allows the rifle to be shot while wearing winter gloves.

Just in case. @Jenorado

Horse is well trained and I'm betting there was someone holding the reins just off camera.

Congratulations Jenorado

Panhandle hail storm from 2012 Holy Hail! Photos, Videos Show Texas Storm's Fury; Drifts 4-Feet Deep Baseball sized hail happens every few years.

Picture collage from 5 years ago. lasted about 3 days.

Occasionally. Seems we get more ice and freezing rain than snow. In 2010 we got about 10 inches where I live in North East Texas. Out in West Texas they get a lot of hail. So much that occasionally they measure it by the foot.

Congratulations

If you still had that set you could sell it and retire.

I don't think they used enough Duct Tape.