Cool vid! Lewis & Clark

[Cajun]

FT forum: This is just tooo kewl not to spread around

[kb4ns]

That's pretty neat.

[vontar]

Wow, I never knew that. That bit of history certainly was not taunt in history when I was in school when we covered Lewis and Clark.

I never knew about his repeating air rifle.

[Guest Jcochran88]

Wow, never knew that either. Wonder why they weren't more of them built later on.

[vontar]

Wow, never knew that either. Wonder why they weren't more of them built later on.

I was thinking the same thing. Until the repeating Rifle came about, seems those would have been real popular.

[Guest buttonhook]

I believe it cost about 2 years wages...and was not completly reliable (air seals)

[kb4ns]

I believe it cost about 2 years wages...and was not completly reliable

So it was like a 1911?

I kid, I kid.

[vontar]

I believe it cost about 2 years wages..

Didn't Daniel Boone's rifle as well?

Seems I heard that once, but I could be mistaken.

Back then when your life depended far more on your rifle then it does today.

[Guest buttonhook]

I was reading and it looks like he borrowed the air rifle...but it would have cost as much as 15x a regular rifle

[waynesan]

Here's more info on the gun:

Girandoni Air Rifle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Guest BEARMAN]

1500 strokes of the hand pump, to get 30 shots...Heck, I'd be wore out just getting the thing ready to fire. Good thing for them the indians didn't realize that little known fact. Might have been forever known as the "Lewis an Clark massacre". Thank God for small miracles, eh.

[Guest ked]

saw that on another forum. never knew there was something like that. i would love to see a modern version like that.

ked