My first black powder revolver was a Navy Arms Model 60, a brass frame .44 with a round barrel. A buddy and I were sitting on a pond bank, shooting towards the water. I squeezed off a round and buddy shouted, "OW!!!" I had a chain fire and the ball hit the frame and then hit him on the leg. No bleeding, just a bruise.
He got me back a few years later. We were working on another friend's 1954 Plymouth. These had a tapered fit on the brake drums that required a puller to remove the drum. I was tightening the wrench and he was swinging the hammer. A piece of steel sheared off and buried itself into my thigh. A couple of inches to one side and I wouldn't have had to pay all that child support in years to come.
Gil Davis Tercenio
# 3020V
34th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry
Great, great grandson of Cpl Elijah S Davis, Co I, 6th Alabama Inf CSA
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