When 7 rounds just isn't enough.

[oneshooter]

58. They were very much about hunting.

Hunting buffalo for their hides. Thousands of buffalo, for their hides. But that did not cause the demise of the buffalo, although it helped. It is believed by many historians that brucellosis was a major factor in the decimation of the herds.


This is but one shipment of hides

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4602629920131683&w=253&h=177&c=7&rs=1&pid=1.7

And when there were no more buffalo, they collected the bones to make into fertilizer.

In August 1867, Grant appointed Sheridan to head the Department of the Missouri and pacify the Plains. His troops, even supplemented with state militia, were spread too thin to have any real effect. He conceived a strategy similar to the one he used in the Shenandoah Valley. In the Winter Campaign of 1868–69 he attacked the Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Comanche tribes in their winter quarters, taking their supplies and livestock and killing those who resisted, driving the rest back into their reservations. Professional hunters, trespassing on Indian land, killed over 4 million bison by 1874, and Sheridan applauded: "Let them kill, skin and sell until the buffalo is exterminated". When the Texas legislature considered outlawing bison poaching on tribal lands, Sheridan personally testified against it, suggesting that the legislature should give each of the hunters a medal, engraved with a dead buffalo on one side and a discouraged-looking Indian on the other.[44]

It was military policy at the time to deny the Plains Indians the buffalo.

It was this rifle, and others like it, that the hunters used.

http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4877894350474142&w=214&h=169&c=7&rs=1&pid=1.7