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<blockquote data-quote="nofearfactor" data-source="post: 2052481" data-attributes="member: 1535"><p>Certainly wasnt helping the idiot Custer and his forces at BoLB. The indians had somehow got their hands on rifles, which happened to be the lighter weight and not so accurate repeater rifles, versus the Armys more accurate but heavy Springfield single shot carbines that Custers men had that were supposedly jamming up on them so bad that they had one guy assigned just to take care of the FTFs in the middle of the 'battle', errrr, massacre. They worked great in the Civil War but not so much in Montana. The Army wanted them being using the carbines because they were cheaper to operate- they were supposed to use less ammo with a single shot rifle, thus saving the govt money. Even though I guess being outnumbered by hundreds and those pesky bows&arrows they had didnt help either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nofearfactor, post: 2052481, member: 1535"] Certainly wasnt helping the idiot Custer and his forces at BoLB. The indians had somehow got their hands on rifles, which happened to be the lighter weight and not so accurate repeater rifles, versus the Armys more accurate but heavy Springfield single shot carbines that Custers men had that were supposedly jamming up on them so bad that they had one guy assigned just to take care of the FTFs in the middle of the 'battle', errrr, massacre. They worked great in the Civil War but not so much in Montana. The Army wanted them being using the carbines because they were cheaper to operate- they were supposed to use less ammo with a single shot rifle, thus saving the govt money. Even though I guess being outnumbered by hundreds and those pesky bows&arrows they had didnt help either. [/QUOTE]
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