deadliest rifleman?

[lazs2]

Was watching the History channel "wild west tech"...

In the 1860's or so..  A foraging party of soldiers and civilians left a Wyoming fort to gather hay for livestock and ran into a very large war party of indians.  

The solddiers were armed with single shot rifles but one of the civilians, who was considered a marksman, was armed with a Henry lever action 15 shot and "hundreds" of rounds of ammo.

The indians attacked and the small band of about 25 defended from behind a temporary corral...  

The civilian with the Henry reportedly killed or hit an indian every time he shot (at between 50 and 100 yards)  He fired continuously from 0800 till like 1630...  

When the hostiles were finally run off it is estimated that this one man killed between 275 and 400 indians!

I have never heard of a rifleman racking up such a score.  

lazs

[gofaster]

Chuck Connors would've kicked all their buttocks.

I'll have to keep my eye out for more of that "Wild West Tech" show.  Is it a regular feature?

[Tarmac]

I saw that same episode.  Out of 25 guys, 23 survived an all-day assault by what sounded like a thousand Indians.  

275 people... that's a lot of shooting.  

Btw, how is one of those reloaded?  Looks like an ammo tube under the barrel... do you just drop more rounds into the front of the tube?  Or do they go in at the receiver end of the tube, like a pump shotgun?

[lazs2]

yep... the Henry was a 44 rimfire... like a big 22.

The plunger in the tube waspulled up toward the muzzle and then flipped over into a notch and the rounds were just dropped in like a modern tube feed 22.. ver fast and effective.

didn't they say the guy killed between 275-400 indians?   seems amazing to me.


lazs

[gofaster]

Replica

[Tarmac]

Yeah, that looks like the same webpage pic I was looking at.  Although those are chambered in .45, IIRC.  

275 is the number that sticks in my head, lazs.  But there was a qualifier, an "at least" or "or more" or something like that.

[Staga]

Do a little search in the web with words Simo Häyhä.

[Tarmac]

Originally posted by Staga
Do a little search in the web with words Simo Häyhä.

505 in a career is pretty damn impressive, but 275 in a day in just insane.

[Wlfgng]

not if it was Mr. Black

he could do it

[Curval]

Way to kill them injuns.

[Wlfgng]

hey now...   careful there pale-face  

[GtoRA2]

LoL the henry rifle! The first assualt rifle!


Interesting. Hopefully I will have cable in a month and can watch cool shows like this!

[GRUNHERZ]

Wow, why isnt this as famouus as Rourke's Drift?

[LAWCobra]

What about Tom Horn

[2bighorn]

Originally posted by lazs2
In the 1860's or so..  A foraging party of soldiers and civilians left a Wyoming fort to gather hay for livestock and ran into a very large war party of indians.

The story is just a legend.
Only 270 Henry Rifles were produced in 1860 and none of those seen Wyoming.