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Load One, Skip One, Load Four
I'm not staying here by myself…wait, I'll get my revolver," Mattie Ross said to Rooster Cogburn.
"Why, so you can shoot your own foot off?" he replied. Mattie later asked Rooster, John Wayne's character in the film True Grit, why he kept the one chamber empty in his revolver, and his response was firm. "So I won't shoot my foot off." True Grit was released in 1969, and I suspect most sixgun aficionados knew what Rooster meant by that statement. I'm not so sure that many younger shooters know today, though, and that's disconcerting. The Colt Single Action ...
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Load One, Skip One, Load Four "Why, so you can shoot your own foot off?" he replied. Mattie later asked Rooster, John Wayne's ... Read More
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