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they were faced with Sitting Bull's
painted, screaming Sioux. None of the
troop were alive at the end of that
day.

Paper-Wrapped Cartridges

Among the early cartridges here's
one, paper-wrapped, made for the
German Dreyse needle gun. Little
did German gunsmith Nicholas von
Dreyse think, as he worked at his
bench in Sommerda, that his experi-
ments to produce the needle gun
would, 40 years later, give the
Prussian army the advantage, which
ended in the defeat of France at
Sedan in September, 1870. On that
day Napoleon III, 39 of his generals,
and 86,000 men laid down their arms.
And France’s national dignity was not
restored for 50 years, not until Alsace
and Loraine were ceded back to her
by the Treaty of Versailles. Funny
little German gunsmith shaking the
world.

Here’s a cartridge invented by a
Philadelphia dentist named Maynard;
the powder was ignited through a
pin hole in the base of the cartridge,
and the ignition, believe it or not, was
provided by a roll of paper filled at
intervals with dots of priming com-
pound—just like those used in the
present day cap pistol. But if you had
been at Gettysburg early in July, 1863,
you would have seen some of these
Maynard shells in action. There were
53,000 men killed or wounded in this
decisive Civil War battle.

There are thousands of sporting
cartridges in the Gibault collection,
ranging from vicious-looking high-
velocity .22’s with a rated muzzle ve-
locity of four thousand or more feet
a second, to giant British big game
shells, used on African and Indian big
game. The “daddy” of these is the
-600 calibre nitro express. When you
figure that a cannon on a war-time
plane fires a .50 calibre shell, you can
imagine what .60 calibre would be
like fired from the shoulder. A bullet
from our most popular hunting arm,
the .30/30 Winchester, hits with an
impact of from 1700 to 2000 foot
pounds of energy. The slam of this
British big game bullet, eight times
the weight of the Winchester missile,
is a devastating 7600 Ibs. But you need
this when a few tons of enraged
rhinocerous or a big African lion de-
cides to make your closer acquaint-
ance.

Explorers and Adventurers

These big game cartridges have
traveled with explorers and adven-
turers from the Arctic to the tropics,
and the names of Holland & Holland,
Gibbs, Purdy and Jeffrey, the English
gun-makers who evolved them, are
almost synonmous with lions, tigers
and elephants.

We pick up another big shell, one
that makes the big game cartridges

look almost insignificant; it’s a
Chinese Jingal, .60 calibre. The case —
is nearly five inches long, and it would
fill a one-inch breech opening. This
shell was made for a Chinese “two
man” bolt action rifle, and it was
used in the Boxer rising in China at
the beginning of the century.

Another paper-wrapped cartridge
that has a real history, is the powder
and ball combination for the 1853
model, British Enfield. ‘This was the
last muzzle-loading arm used by Brit-
ish troops, and when Jacob Snider
sold his breech-loading patent to the
British government, a lot of them
were converted to breech action.

The 53 model paper cartridge, it
is said, caused the Indian mutiny- The
cow is a sacred animal to the Hindus,
and when Britain’s Indian troops un-
derstood that the base of the paper
cartridge was sealed with a mixture
which included tallow, and the drill
called for biting off the end of the
cartridge—well the fat was in the fire,
as it were.

In April, 1857, nearly 3,000 Indian
troops stationed at Meerut, near
Delhi, mutinied and shot their offi-
cers. Disatisfaction spread like wild-
fire and, before the situation was un-
der control 12 months later, thousands
of lives had been shed in a welter of
blood and slaughter. When peace
came, it saw the end of the 332-year-
old rule of the Moguls.

. With the Light Brigade

This is the cartridge that rode with
the men of the Light Brigade at
Balaclava, and froze with their com-
rades in the trenches before Sebasta-
pol. Truly an historic cartridge.

In the jumbo category, here’s an-
other big case that made history, but
of a different kind; it’s the Big ‘‘50”
Sharps. You would have seen this rifle
lying across the lap of the bearded
red-shirted guard who rode beside the
driver on the Overland stage out of
Bannack or Carson City, when the
gold rush of the sixties opened up
Nevada. This is the gun that ex-
terminated the buffalo by tens of
thousands on the plains of Kansas,
and an earlier model was in John
Brown’s hand when he took his stand
against slavery at Harper’s Ferry in 59.

Not only is history attached to rifle
cases, but the revolver shells have just
as much glamour. Turning over some
of the oldtimers you get glimpses of
the Old West, the west of Bat Master-
son, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and
Wild Bill Hickok. Bad men and Mar-
shalls, these colorful figures stood and
blasted the way to their individual
destiny with their six guns. Forty-five’s
and forty-four’s always spelled action.

Military shells of all nations are in
Gibault’s collection; there are Turk-
ish, French, German, Russian, and

THE SHOULDER STRAP