Springfield 1866 Marksman
SPRINGFIELD 1866 MARKSMAN. (See also, RIFLES) The original Springfield 1866 is a breech-loading rifle bearing an extractor and .50-70 caliber centerfire cartridge. The marksman model of this rifle adds a scope to the original design, making it more useful for long-range shots.
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He pulled the bear head lower over his face, as if it could protect him from the memory. We sat in silence a while. 1 thought he'd fallen asleep and was thinking to do the same when he started to whisper.
"Light the shadow though dark my way, light the shadow, light the shadow."That's what I think he was muttering at least. There was more - couldn't make out all he was saying. Maybe some kind of prayer. Maybe some kind of curse. I grabbed the bottle out of his hand finally, wanting a taste myself, and losing hold of that bottle shook him right out of it. Hell-bound sot.
"The others kept right on hunting, and it seemed like nothing else was going to happen. They always took a third, to fill in for the brother. And the third died, more often than not. They went through a lot of them, but they were piling up the bounties, and it started to seem like those two couldn't be killed. Not many would go near them after that. Figured them for cursed, and you didn't know if it was the kind of curse that might end up on your own head if you got too close. But some were saying the oath had been broken. A sacrifice had been made, and now three could hunt. Hard to say for sure. You ask me though, it happened later. You ask me, it wasn't just possible cause the brother'd died, it was possible because their third always died.
"They started to get this look about them. Wild-like. Dangerous. Less human. You'd think with what we have to deal with out in those swamps, Hunters wouldn't be so easy to trick into seeing monsters in every shadowed corner. But it's the other way around. After you see those things in the swamps you start seeing them everywhere."
