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  • bambihunter
    I doubt there are any patents that lived that long. I wonder if it could be produced with modern methods and using synthetics to be a viable high power, larger caliber air rifle.

    Nice read. :ugeek:
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  • mrmike08075
    I was blessed with the opportunity to handle a Lewis and Clark expedition manual hand pump refill integral pressure reservoir large diameter bore air rifle / musket...

    It was part of a display of artifacts including a stuffed prairie dog and the travel vessel / transport container used to contain liquid mercury that was part of the treatment for gonorrhea and other brutal sexually transmitted diseases - used to sanitize and cleanse open sores associated with the outbreak and open sores - STD's were a huge problem for the expedition...

    I hand loaned an institute a Rollin White and a Henry derringer and a Thule and a c. Sharps and a cupfire set of handguns...

    Amazing.

    Mike
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  • bambihunter
    mrmike08075 wrote:
    I was blessed with the opportunity to handle a Lewis and Clark expedition manual hand pump refill integral pressure reservoir large diameter bore air rifle / musket...

    It was part of a display of artifacts including a stuffed prairie dog and the travel vessel / transport container used to contain liquid mercury that was part of the treatment for gonorrhea and other brutal sexually transmitted diseases - used to sanitize and cleanse open sores associated with the outbreak and open sores - STD's were a huge problem for the expedition...

    I have to wonder why. It would seem they were in remote areas without brothels and such. I wonder if it was with the natives, or if some people brought along and shared it among the group somehow. :shock:
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  • mrmike08075
    North America at the time of the expedition was heavily populated with numerous tribes and people's / nations...

    The members of the expedition were spreading the love and diseases across the land and the populace with great aplomb..

    At least that's what I have read.

    Mike
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