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Max's Rifle

posted 13 years ago by ABN-Para
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Anyone know what kind of rifle Max had in the beginning?

[–] fistoffury 13 years ago

Yeah, and why didn't he keep the rifle?

[–] Captain_Augustus_McCrae 13 years ago

I think it was a German "Jaeger" rifle, with more than one barrel- possibly a rifle/shotgun combination. He didn't keep it because the saddle tramps whose horses he tried to steal stole it from him.

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[–] runnaman 13 years ago

He wasn't trying to steal the horses--he was setting them loose so the men he thought killed his parents couldn't get away.