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Morve L. Weaver to Horace Kephart, November 7, 1918, page 1

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  • Morve L. Weaver, C. E. No. Date Visalia, California, November 7, I9I8 Mr. Horace Kephart c/o "All Outdoors" New York, N.Y. Dear Sir:- I take the liberty of asking you to supply some information and if you can be persuaded to make the explanation public in some medium like "All Outdoors" I am sure that many will be benefited and instructed. Many time^in the years gone by I have read references to the superior smashing or shocking power of the short heavy-calibre pistols made by the Derrirgers of Pennsylvania, whose name is now almost universally given to any short, non-revolving, pocket pistol. I have been able to trace out that there was more than one generation of Derringers who were gun-makers and that their arms, in both the flint-lock and percussion-lock days, were of unusual excellence but I can find no printed confirmation of their make of arms having any marked peculiarity (unless one calls good workmanship peculiar) which would account for any added "shocking" power over weapons of similar pattern by other makers. I have come to think that the superiority of the Derringer made pistol of ancient days is more a hallowed memory of our grand-fathersf than an actual fact, and I shall depend on your acquired knowledge of the guns in question to either sustain my suspicion or to explain in what particulars they were superior to contemporary arms. I have read with great pleasure, and benefit, your recent articles in both "All Outdoors" and "Outing" on the early American rifles and I sincerely hope that you will extend the series so to fully cover the
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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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