Intersting story! Some of you may know that Lewis and Clark carried a .46 caliber repeating air rifle on their voyage of discovery to the Columbia River. Their diaries cite the demonstration of this weapon 39 times. The Indians thought it such powerful medicine that it very likely protected the men from attack. The site below carries a video explaining this in detail. The rifle could fire 22 times without reloading, and about 40 times before the air reservoir had to be pumped up again.Stan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqFyKh-rUI