A.R. Byrkit Guns

BYRKIT

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 7/29/2006 at 18:24:11

The Enterprise
Birmingham, Van Buren, Iowa
Saturday, January 28, 1871

A man stepped into the gun shop of A.R. Byrkit a few days ago and made the following report: “With the gun you made me, I shot nine times at a lighted candle, distant 60 yards, cutting the wick off each time above the tallow and extinguishing the blaze.—Fairfield Ledger.

We knew that our friend Byrkit could make a gun that would shoot the eye out of a black cat, distant two hundred yards, on a pitch dark night and extinguish its nine lives at the same time but we didn’t know that he could manufacture a piece that would ‘extinguish the blaze of a candle nine times’ We presume it did not flicker out until the ninth extinguishment.