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Date: 14 Apr 1999 18:42:14 -0700
From: <buck.conner@uswestmail.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: buckskin report
Yes, Lewis & Clark had an air rifle with them that wowed the local Native Americans.
Air guns were around long before this period, and I remember reading some of the best ones came from Germany, of pretty good caliber to, there was a friend of Ben Franklin's that would shoot in his garden and Jefferson mentions one in his garden book used for rodents, that would be F&I War period to Rev. War period. I would think they would be earlier than that in Europe, wasn't it at Waterloo that anyone with an air rifle or crossbow was killed on site ? These Generals didn't like silent weapons that could be pointed at them.
I'm sure someone has better information than what I remember from an article years ago in the American Rifleman. You have anything Hawk !
Buck Conner
Colorado Territory
>
> Don't know what all this fartten has to do with history but hears a
> real question.
> It is my understanding that Leis and clark carried Airguns on their
> voyage. I got into a disscussion about this and was told that daisy was
> the oldest airgun maker and they started in 1889? So who made the
> airguns for Lewis & Clark?
> Rick
>
> --- sean <sean@peganet.com> wrote:
> > Now I have known Linda for quite a spell, and never
> > have I know her to be
> > uncouth as to "fluff" in public. She do get a might
> > boistrous at times, and
> > even been known to get down right crude with the