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The original Revolver in profile. Outside of the somewhat oversized cylinder the gun looks relatively normal in profile.

Two barrels pointing down the front.

The gun was hinged on the top and broke open for reloading.

Both hammers would come down with each shot, but only one would be lined up with a new round.

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This week, we have a Nico Werke "Wild West" Revolver, a 20 shot, double barreled revolver chambered in .25 ACP. Made in 1910 in Belgium, it fired from alternating barrels and were sold for home defense.

I had never heard the other version and so the chicken backed cut is headcanon.

What I need is for Brooks Brothers, JoS. A. Banks, or a similar shop to have a large selection of holsters to be fit. Mail order is no way to be properly heeled.
#firearms #steampunk #shootingsports #ccw

This is a great post - not only about the Dinosaurs, but various things related to both Crystal Palaces, and really interesting to read about the archive project itself 🏅

Steampunk Digest - The week’s top stories from The Steampunk Explorer. With three photos from CONpossible (credits: Gabby Isabel and James “Frameshot” Garner) and one of the Jason Nelson Band (credit: DaVinci Michelangelo Theatrical Productions).

This week in #steampunk: Scenes from CONpossible; Nikola Tesla rock opera; Tippy Golden Teapot Awards; Abney Park “Mad Max” video; Holographic singer goes steampunk; Weekend happenings; Kickstarter updates. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...

I believe they meant "mercantile."

And if that wasn't bad enough . . .

The image is supposed to be a single action pistol in a holster, part of an advertisement from the Single Action Shooting Society for an event at their annual End of Trail match. But because it is generated by AI and AI can never be right, even in a "broken clock twice a day" sort of way, the gun is nearly unrecognizable. I am genuinely at a loss for words in attempting to describe how almost but not quite entirely unlike a pistol this thing is. And I am shocked that someone, probably a whole string of someones within the SASS chain of decision making, allowed this abomination to be published. Studies have shown that the use of AI literally diminishes people's cognitive abilities and the use of this image illustrates that better than it does its intended subject.

You would think an editor at the Single Action Shooting Society would have known what a pistol actually looked like before approving this ad.
#firearms #shootingsports #cowboyaction #noai #aislop

“[the instructor] should occasionally place himself in front of each man, and cause him to aim at his eye with a view to ascertain if he attains the alignment quickly and readily, and does not loose his aim in pressing the trigger.”

- - - “Manual for Rifle Practice” by George Wood Wingate (1872)

“The instructor should not allow the recruits to be discouraged . . . but should explain to them . . . that any man who has no defect in his sight can, by perseverance, become a good shot.” - "Manual for Rifle Practice" by George Wood Wingate (1872)

XXXenophile OMNIBUS - Numbered First Edition Hardcovers Erotic Fantasy & NSFW Science Fiction stories by Phil Foglio. Contains Adult Comic Tales from 1998-2004.

I still own this and have you seen that Phil and Kaja are publishing an omnibus edition?
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And I think I saw a horse's hoof clip through the head as well.

the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this

every plantation owner should have been put to death

A Foxtrot Mike upper and a PSA lower dropped into a SRU Precision SARB-15 bullpup kit. The scope is a Vortex Optics Spitfire 3X Prism. #firearms #bullpup #sarb15 #ar15

I have a Vortex 3X prism on my bullpup and can choose between red or green. My slight astigmatism seems to like the green better.

AI is fed with theft and has the devaluation of humans as its business model.

A "Vinegar Valentine" from the 1870s depicting a snake with blue coat, yellow tie, doffing a top hat. A somewhat surprised looking woman in a teal dress is in the background. The caption reads "I'm not attracted by your glitter, For well I know how very bitter My life would be, if I should take You for my spouse, a rattlesnake. Oh, no, I'd not accept the ring, Or evermore 'twould prove a sting."

"This concept of 'wuv' confuses and irritates us!"
#steampunk #19thc #valentine #victorian

An Argonath.

Missing 83-year-old Pittsburgh man suffering from dementia found stabbed to death in neighbor's home A Pittsburgh man who was reported missing was found stabbed to death inside his neighbor's home over the weekend.

Very sad to learn that the "burglar" was just some confused guy ended up at the wrong house.
www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

Like stock car racing for nerds.

French novelist Jules Verne was born #onthisday in 1828. His fantastic tales of voyage and adventure have lent themselves to many wonderful illustrations but perhaps none so captivating as those by Émile-Antoine Bayard for Around the Moon (1870) — publicdomainreview.org/collection/e... #otd

"If a woman fancies that she looks better or feels better in men's clothes, there is no reason why she may not indulge in so harmless a fancy."

The illustrated book of manners: a manual of good behavior and polite accomplishments by R. De Valcourt, 1866.
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This guy straight up went back to bed. "I'll deal with this crap in the morning."

#OnThisDay in 1862, Union gunboats pounded the everloving fuck out of traitors in Fort Henry in Tennessee. It was the first important victory for the Union in the Western Theatre. READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/sonsoflibertyofficial/p/onthisday-in-1862-battle-of-fort

Tangentially related, I read Dracula for the first time and I was surprised to learn there was a cowboy who was like, "YEEHAW AHM FROM TECKSAS, I'VE BROUGHT ENOUGH WINCHESTERS FOR ALL, LET'S KILL THIS SON OF A BITCH"

Read the room, Chuck. Leadership, as always, wants to compromise, but your constituates want so much more than that. When you compromise with evil, you are half way to evil. Don't be evil, Chuck.

Eugenicists already discount consent when it concerns women, maybe they will reconsider when it is them being forced. Who am I kidding, we all know they don't think it will be them being forced to do anything, only others.

Society intervention? You mean forcing men to procreate? Do you really want to go there, Steven?

From Utagawa Hiroshige’s New Edition of Shadow Making series, 1853.

More from this shadow series, and other Hiroshige prints, in our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/utagawa-hiroshige

"Then he got an idea. An awful idea. The Grinch had a wonderful, awful idea"

The magwell of my SARB-15 with a 10-round magazine inserted. Only a very small amount of the magazine is visible.

Made only one purchase at a local gun show today; an adorable 10-round magazine. Very low profile for my bullpup. I passed on the beefy 60 round double-stack magazine. It seemed a little too performative and more expensive than two 30-round mags.
#firearms #shootingsports #sarb15 #bullpup #cyberpunk