The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. Buy one to-day and it would be indistinguishable from the one Wyatt Earp wore when he was the Marshal of Dodge City. It is the oldest hand-gun in the world, without question the most famous and, if efficiency in its designated task of maiming and killing be taken as criterion of its worth, then it is also probably the best hand-gun ever made. It is no light thing, it is true, to be wounded by some of the Peacemaker’s more highly esteemed competitors, such as the Luger or Mauser: but the high-velocity, narrow-calibre, steel-cased shell from either of those just goes straight through you, leaving a small neat hole in its wake and spending the bulk of its energy on the distant landscape whereas the large and unjacketed soft-nosed lead bullet from the Colt mushrooms on impact, tearing and smashing bone and muscle and tissue as it goes and expending all its energy on you. In short when a Peacemaker’s bullet hits you in, say, the leg, you don’t curse, step into shelter, roll and light a cigarette one-handed then smartly shoot your assailant between the eyes. When a Peacemaker bullet hits your leg you fall to the ground unconscious, and if it hits the thigh-bone and you are lucky enough to survive the torn arteries and shock, then you will never walk again without crutches because a totally disintegrated femur leaves the surgeon with no option but to cut your leg off. And so I stood absolutely motionless, not breathing, for the Peacemaker Colt that had prompted this unpleasant train of thought was pointed directly at my right thigh. Another thing about the Peacemaker: because of the very heavy and varying trigger pressure required to operate the semi-automatic mechanism, it can be wildly inaccurate unless held in a strong and steady hand. There was no such hope here. The hand that held the Colt, the hand that lay so lightly yet purposefully on the radio-operator’s table, was the steadiest hand I’ve ever seen. It was literally motionless. I could see the hand very clearly. The light in the radio cabin was very dim, the rheostat of the angled table lamp had been turned down until only a faint pool of yellow fell on the scratched metal of the table, cutting the arm off at the cuff, but the hand was very clear. Rock-steady, the gun could have lain no quieter in the marbled hand of a statue. Beyond the pool of light I could half sense, half see the dark outline of a figure leaning back against the bulkhead, head slightly tilted to one side, the white gleam of unwinking eyes under the peak of a hat. My eyes went back to the hand. The angle of the Colt hadn’t varied by a fraction of a degree. Unconsciously, almost, I braced my right leg to meet the impending shock. Defensively, this was a very good move, about as useful as holding up a sheet of newspaper in front of me. I wished to God that Colonel Sam Colt had gone in for inventing something else, something useful, like safety-pins.
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RORY MACLEAN Berlin inspired Bowie and stirred him to write about real, important matters. RORY MACLEAN But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topo... NORMAN MACLEAN As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit ... SARAH MACLEAN Hockey Day in Canada has become an unofficial holiday for Canadian hockey fans everywhere. It is imp... RON MACLEAN One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch. RORY MACLEAN As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a mess and had fallen from a... NORMAN MACLEAN One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly b... NORMAN MACLEAN My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-tro... NORMAN MACLEAN Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask... NORMAN MACLEAN You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a... AUDREY MACLEAN Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich... RORY MACLEAN The average taxpayer wants their potholes filled, their roads maintained, their sidewalks maintained... DAVID MACLEAN We use primary and secondary data to make models using current econometric methods. CATHERINE MACLEAN Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so c... NANCY MACLEAN Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact a... RORY MACLEAN I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched.... NORMAN MACLEAN At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know w... NORMAN MACLEAN Kisses should not leave you satisfied. SARAH MACLEAN I do, love. I want you more than you could ever know. More than I could have ever dreamed. I want yo... SARAH MACLEAN No matter the differences between them, brothers are brothers. SARAH MACLEAN I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what beca... AUDREY MACLEAN At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear NORMAN MACLEAN I got a call on my way to practice this morning, and it took me about 4 hours to get here because I ... DONALD MACLEAN I'm the type of player that once I get hot, I usually stay hot. At the start of every season, I put ... DONALD MACLEAN You have to, that was a conversation between Mike and I, that we had to make the money work for both... DOUG MACLEAN It's really unfortunate for him, as a kid you hate to see that, it was an awkward type thing. He's o... DOUG MACLEAN He has played with the game's best players in Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr and has also excelled i... DOUG MACLEAN I posed it to him as a challenge. He was successful in Colorado helping them win a championship. Now... DOUG MACLEAN I would like to believe it was an unbelievable recruiting job, but I don't think that was the case. ... DOUG MACLEAN He's as tough as they come. All I know he may be the best conditioned athlete in the league, and tha... DOUG MACLEAN I've got a funny feeling that if Detroit could spend $80 million this year and the Rangers could spe... DOUG MACLEAN He earned a spot on our roster and will be a tremendous complement to the young talent in our organi... DOUG MACLEAN He's a big part of our future and we think he has a chance to make an impact on our team as early as... DOUG MACLEAN I didn't look at the market, I looked at our particular financial situation. I think everyone will l... DOUG MACLEAN If I don't fish for a season, I'm dead. I'm history. It scares the heck out of me. I'm 56. I've done... DUNCAN MACLEAN It puts us in the poor house. I'm still optimistic that we can come out with something along the lin... DUNCAN MACLEAN The market softens now because they anticipate those guys going fishing and they anticipate cheaper ... DUNCAN MACLEAN Last season was the most restrictive on record. This year, we're hoping we just have some sort of se... DUNCAN MACLEAN Last year's season cut my income by 25 percent, and if you cut it by half again, I'm not going to be... DUNCAN MACLEAN It's not a pretty picture. Our options are either we have no season or we use an emergency rule whic... DUNCAN MACLEAN Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change. RORY MACLEAN One of the most remarkable shindigs I ever attended was in Warsaw. RORY MACLEAN