“John Jacob had fought with the Scinda Irregular Horse, which was a detached unit of cavalary in the army of the East India Company,” said Evan Brune, American Rifleman executive editor. “At the time, they were using smoothbore double-barreled shotguns, basically. And he thought that the best weapon that the Irregular Horse could use would be a double-barreled, large-bore rifle.”
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