Setting clothing on fire with c&p revolver

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Setting clothing on fire with c&b revolver

I heard something kinda hard to believe. Is it true that if you shoot someone 18-24 inches away with a large caliber c&p revolver, it will set the person's clothing on fire? That would be one hell of a bonus!!
 
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I suspect it might be true; it should be easy to try (with cloth on a sandbag, of course; using a live target would be frowned on). I have never heard of setting clothing on fire, but I have stomped out grass fires set by burning patches.

Jim
 
Hardcase has a point. It would be a shame to lose your home because of a burning scumbag POS.
And it burns, burns, burns, piece of &%@# on fire, piece of &%@# on fire...(my version of Ring of Fire)
 
If you shoot someone at 18-24 inches with a large caliber BP revolver, burning clothes will be the least of his worries.
 
the hap baker firing range in westminster md burned down because of a black powder rifle too close to the foam sound proofing. appearantly the foam had accumulated enough unburned gun powder that it was just a matter of time before this happened. the shooter and rangemaster were the only people in there at the time and luckily both of them and the shooters guns all made it out ok.heres a lnik i just found

http://www.reesevfc.org/index.cfm?fs=news.newsView&News_ID=27
 
BustaCap, I was just kidding or maybe not. Seriously, that would be cruel and unusual torture. It would be difficult to explain dousing him with bp or gasoline before shooting him to a jury.
 
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I dunno but

There is a sequence in one of the recent movies on Wyatt Earp in which a victims clothes catch fire when he is shot. I don't know whether it was intentional or just a malfunction of the prop.

I think the movie was the Kevin Kostner version of "Wyatt Earp".

This post is not much help in answering the question. Just more grist for the mill.

Tnx,
 
How about......

......Does anyone, who reads the historical material religiously recall any description of this? I am not talking about, "The Duck of Death" stories, but actual accounts.

Tnx,
 
Doc, you are referring to Ed Masterson's ( Bat's brother) death. Historically, yes it did happen. According to witness accounts Masterson was shot at close range and his clothes were set on fire. He managed to put out the fire, kill one of his attackers, wound the other and stagger down a nearby ally before he collapsed. He died the next morning. Another historical account was a lawer named Houston Chapman in Lincoln county NM during the Lincoln co. war of Billy the kid fame. In fact, the kid was a witness. Jesse Evens( a known killer) had a grudge against Chapman, accosted him on the street one night, pressed his six gun into his ribs and shot him. He said "my God, I'm shot" and fell over. His clothes were in flames. His charred body was discovered later that night. So, yeah it can happen with BP.
 
It's possible...
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Walker flame thrower.

We've all seen the slow motion videos of BP arms being fired. Their is a considerable plume of smoke and it burns slowly in comparison to smokeless loads, burns at a lower temperature and dirtier, that is, what is ejected from the muzzle has very real burning particles of black powder in it.

IF, a piece of cloth were shot at close range, (point blank), with a WALKER loaded with 55 grains of good black powder, I think there is a VERY good chance it would catch on fire.

I have heard anecdotal stories from the wild west that it was considered very dangerous to discharge a black powder firearm near a table with drinks of whiskey or high volume alcoholic beverages and the particles of black powder ejected could easily fall in the drinks and light them afire.

This was one of the concerns of barkeeps when shooting started in a saloon, the bottles break, one shot ... THOOM ... saloon fire rages.
 
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