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Horse Power
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Glancing at Westerns on TV, sometimes they show lone horsemen (rarely women) failing to keep up with six-horse stagecoaches, or even light wagons pulled by a couple of horses.
What’s the truth of horse power? Wouldn’t a single horse always overtake a vehicle?
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What’s the truth of horse power? Wouldn’t a single horse always overtake a vehicle?
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A stage coach pulled by 4 horses approximately 10 miles per hour possible to do more but depends on the weight of what is being pulled and the type of road on.
A single horse can do up to 20 miles per hour again depends on the factors.
What you also need to know is that is max speed flat out and cannot be maintained also depending on how fresh the horses are.
Finally and probably most importantly it’s a film!
A single horse can do up to 20 miles per hour again depends on the factors.
What you also need to know is that is max speed flat out and cannot be maintained also depending on how fresh the horses are.
Finally and probably most importantly it’s a film!
// cowboy films also show cowboys accurately shooting at injuns whilst holding the gun in one hand and the reins of a galloping horse in the other, whist bouncing around at a ridiculous speed. Is that accurate, too?//
Yes, and cowboys can rope cattle while riding flat out. There is even an event, which I would show you if I could figure out how to download videos, where you gallop down a line fo balloons on a horse and have to shoot each balloon with a gun firing blanks.
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Yes, and cowboys can rope cattle while riding flat out. There is even an event, which I would show you if I could figure out how to download videos, where you gallop down a line fo balloons on a horse and have to shoot each balloon with a gun firing blanks.
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//Don't know the definitive answer to that, Allen, but the horses in westerns appear to travel much faster than any horse i've ever seen on a race-track. Even with big fat cowboys in the saddle :-/ //
Yes I've often noticed that, ken. You seem them steaming along at the same rate as thoroughbreds in a 5f dash for hours on end!
Yes I've often noticed that, ken. You seem them steaming along at the same rate as thoroughbreds in a 5f dash for hours on end!
You get a blank firing pistol,in close proximity to your face, being discharged and you will understand how the balloons pop.
The Met Police used to hold a Police Horse show where tent pegging etc was in the competition. The blank firing pistols were also used.
Today those type of blank firers are not sold as the blast came through the barrel. Modern blank firers have to discharge from another open port.
The Met Police used to hold a Police Horse show where tent pegging etc was in the competition. The blank firing pistols were also used.
Today those type of blank firers are not sold as the blast came through the barrel. Modern blank firers have to discharge from another open port.
//Blanks can be dangerous under some circumstances. For one thing, the exploding gunpowder produces a focused blast of air and gas that can leave the barrel of the weapon with great force–think of it as a small, directional bomb going off. Though the blast disperses quickly in the open air, at close range there can be a lot of destructive energy.
The unfortunate showbiz personality you’re thinking of is probably Jon-Erik Hexum, a star of the early 1980s series “Cover Up." For reasons that have never been made clear, on October 18, 1984, the 26-year-old Hexum took a .44 Magnum revolver loaded with blanks, pressed the barrel to his head, and fired a single shot. When Dirty Harry Callahan extolled the power of the .44 Magnum, he wasn’t exaggerating–as the owner of a .44 Magnum myself, I can attest that the recoil and concussion from firing it are impressive. In the case of Mr. Hexum, the force of the blast alone shattered his skull and badly injured his brain, killing him shortly thereafter.//
The unfortunate showbiz personality you’re thinking of is probably Jon-Erik Hexum, a star of the early 1980s series “Cover Up." For reasons that have never been made clear, on October 18, 1984, the 26-year-old Hexum took a .44 Magnum revolver loaded with blanks, pressed the barrel to his head, and fired a single shot. When Dirty Harry Callahan extolled the power of the .44 Magnum, he wasn’t exaggerating–as the owner of a .44 Magnum myself, I can attest that the recoil and concussion from firing it are impressive. In the case of Mr. Hexum, the force of the blast alone shattered his skull and badly injured his brain, killing him shortly thereafter.//
they use blank firing single action revolvers and have to get near enough to the target for the black powder granules to pop the balloons.
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