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Updated: May 5, 2025

"It's a good gun but the ball's too light to stop a man right. And the shells are an odd size. Might have some difficulty getting ammunition for it out here." "None around here," said the clerk. "Plenty of those guns in the country. Most every store stocks all sizes nowadays. It ain't like it used to be when every one shot a thirty, a thirty-eight, a forty-five-seventy, or a forty-five-ninety.

William West Winter - Louisiana Lou : A Western Story