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Leech & Rigdon
- Thread starter CraigC
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My M&M 500 (as seen way above!).
Neither have I come across any mention of Leech and Rigdon producing bullets--no mention in Edwards' "Civil War Guns," in his Leech and Rigdon discussion on pp. 352-353.
Well, based on all of the above thread (and an enjoyable one it is/was) I've decided to keep my M&M 500 amongst my Confederate bullets, but with the following note in my "catalog":
".36 caliber, possibly for Confederate Leech and Rigdon six-shot revolver per Bill Ewing (see NSTCW, Vol. 28, No. 2/2001, p. 33, and www.cwbullet.org)--but Jim Thomas, through his research, believes these M&M 500s to be variants of M&M 99 and also produced at the U.S Arsenal in St. Louis (see www.cwbullet.org). This bullet measures .385 diameter, .590 length. There may also be variants of M&M 500 (collector CraigC in PA reports a .39 variant--see www.cwbullet.org), M&M 500, T&T 38B, C.S.A., dug near Richmond, Virginia."
As always, I am open to comments and critiques.
Neither have I come across any mention of Leech and Rigdon producing bullets--no mention in Edwards' "Civil War Guns," in his Leech and Rigdon discussion on pp. 352-353.
Well, based on all of the above thread (and an enjoyable one it is/was) I've decided to keep my M&M 500 amongst my Confederate bullets, but with the following note in my "catalog":
".36 caliber, possibly for Confederate Leech and Rigdon six-shot revolver per Bill Ewing (see NSTCW, Vol. 28, No. 2/2001, p. 33, and www.cwbullet.org)--but Jim Thomas, through his research, believes these M&M 500s to be variants of M&M 99 and also produced at the U.S Arsenal in St. Louis (see www.cwbullet.org). This bullet measures .385 diameter, .590 length. There may also be variants of M&M 500 (collector CraigC in PA reports a .39 variant--see www.cwbullet.org), M&M 500, T&T 38B, C.S.A., dug near Richmond, Virginia."
As always, I am open to comments and critiques.
Horace,
From what I can understand from this thread, these were bullets squeezed through a .36 cal. revolver. Who may have produced them or their origin is still up in the air. They may all be products of the St. Louis Arsenal or CS copies. It's another mystery in this hobby. I haven't seen any evidence either way on where these different varieties originated. I started this to try and understand more about this bullet type.
CraigC
From what I can understand from this thread, these were bullets squeezed through a .36 cal. revolver. Who may have produced them or their origin is still up in the air. They may all be products of the St. Louis Arsenal or CS copies. It's another mystery in this hobby. I haven't seen any evidence either way on where these different varieties originated. I started this to try and understand more about this bullet type.
CraigC