A 31 year old bay saddlebred gelding. It had been in several movies, including Gettysburg (my neighbor is a reenactor and has been in a number of those films). Never an easy thing to shoot such a beautiful animal. There was no way he could do it and I was happy to help. You can get the toughest old cowboy and when it comes time to put down the pony, they'll weep unashamedly. There is just something about a horse. Skeeter's load worked just fine and the gelding felt nothing. Hope there are horses and dogs in heaven, but I'm sure there must be, otherwise it wouldn't be heaven.

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

Good job for helping him out. A true friend. I used a load Skeeter wrote about in 45 Colt to put down a severely injured Limousin cow years ago. That slug penetrated like the dickens through the skull and into the neck. It may just be that the old boy knew one or two things about sixguns and loads that work.

That gun went by the wayside but I should have kept it.