backroadsrambler
Ol' timers thought .32-20 was going big!
Friday, August 27, 2021, 11:33

Was blessed for some years to live in the Greater Prescott area and got to meet many an ol' timer, living from just north of The Valley (Phoenix) to Flagstaff, on remote ranches or alone in the hinterlands. They regularly hunted old mines, stagecoach trails, historic washes and abandoned ranches. .32-20 was the largest caliber of specifically chosen ones but the vast majority used various smaller calibers down to an specifically including .22 Long Rifle. And there was a good sized group who only owned one handgun, so they used it, whatever it was. Some had reloaded the same box of brass umpteen times with their various collections of hand tools, casually doing so on-the-go. Quite fascinating to me to watch the next days rounds being assembled around the campfire as tales were told with seemingly no attention at all being paid, ie, by 'rote-memory'...