I just wanted to say that I was TICKLED by this passage in my gift:
"Accidents with shooting weapons happen all the time," Frederdorf said, which was true, though they usually happened in battle; soldiers who tried to reload an already loaded gun, for example. Besides, as a battle went on, the gun barrel accumulated with powder remnants from the previous rounds, which made them more difficult to manage and more prone to misfire. Guns exploding in their soldier's hands were unfortunately not an uncommon occurence.
Seeing as how I had written this in salon in late October:
no matter how much you drill in peacetime, you're under tremendous stress when the bullets are flying around you, and you're very likely to make mistakes. And if you're relying on muscle memory, and miss a step, you might very well reload an already loaded gun, not realizing that you haven't fired, or that the last attempt to fire was unsuccessful and the gun is still loaded, and then, boom!
It was also common for soldiers in the front lines to be taken down by misfires from behind.
Also, as the battle went on and the gun barrel accumulated with powder remnants from the previous rounds, the guns became more difficult to manage and more prone to misfires.
I was like, hmm, this extremely anonymous author clearly follows me closely. :D
I emailed cahn when I read this to go, "Isn't salon greeeeat?"
She also emailed me, as she said, when she saw your Ferdinand line in "Crown", only a couple hours before I would have emailed her about the same thing (because I had read it on my phone but not yet found my way to a computer yet).
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Date: 2021-01-01 10:39 pm (UTC)"Accidents with shooting weapons happen all the time," Frederdorf said, which was true, though they usually happened in battle; soldiers who tried to reload an already loaded gun, for example. Besides, as a battle went on, the gun barrel accumulated with powder remnants from the previous rounds, which made them more difficult to manage and more prone to misfire. Guns exploding in their soldier's hands were unfortunately not an uncommon occurence.
Seeing as how I had written this in salon in late October:
no matter how much you drill in peacetime, you're under tremendous stress when the bullets are flying around you, and you're very likely to make mistakes. And if you're relying on muscle memory, and miss a step, you might very well reload an already loaded gun, not realizing that you haven't fired, or that the last attempt to fire was unsuccessful and the gun is still loaded, and then, boom!
It was also common for soldiers in the front lines to be taken down by misfires from behind.
Also, as the battle went on and the gun barrel accumulated with powder remnants from the previous rounds, the guns became more difficult to manage and more prone to misfires.
I was like, hmm, this extremely anonymous author clearly follows me closely. :D
I emailed
She also emailed me, as she said, when she saw your Ferdinand line in "Crown", only a couple hours before I would have emailed her about the same thing (because I had read it on my phone but not yet found my way to a computer yet).
Magical alchemy. <3