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Gettmore

2nd Lieutenant
Joined
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Location
Moncks Corner, SC
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Silly boy with his hand over the rifle muzzle. Hope it's not loaded. In the Army if the NCOs caught you standing around with your hand over the muzzle like that they'd slam their hand down on top of your hand. Learn quick not to do that again!
 
I was just joking of course, but there's a reason they teach soldiers not to put their hands on the rifle muzzle.
But you know that's modern firearms safety training, not period. I can show you a number of photos of men leaning on or holding the muzzle of the rifle. While I agree that it's a bad idea, and if you see someone doing it now, you should immediately correct them, it was not an 1860s issue.
 

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