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...Fleming. "Now then, about that S & W you carry," said Wild Bill. "It is a handsome weapon, but the shells have a bad habit of erupting and jamming the chambers. I'd lay the piece aside and get me something else: a Colt's, with the Thuer conversion." Crabb reports that Hickok knew an hombre who carried a small pistol in his crotch. When cornered, the fellow would ask permission to relieve himself before dying, open his fly, and fire. "The trouble was one time he got overhasty and shot off his male parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jack Crabb, Oldtimer | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

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