From: john-dean@frag.lineone.net   
      
   The convention in most Westerns is to show gunbelts with loops for   
   ammunition. Wouldn't exposure of cartridges like this be a magnet for   
   dust, mud, rain and all manner of natural phenomena prone to interfering   
   with the efficiency of the round?   
   Did people actually wear this kind of gunbelt in the second half of the   
   19th century, as opposed to the type of belt with ammunition pouches   
   common in the armed forces?   
   --   
   John Dean   
   Oxford   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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