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A sketch of three seldom-seen pistols was presented in Outdoor Life for March of 1917. Don Maquire provided the opportunity as well as a couple of photographic cuts. Of the three, he seemed to be the most proud of a pristine Sharps single shot breechloading pistol patterned after the Sharps side-hammer rifle principle. Its inventors had hopes that this arm would fall into favor of the military when it was brought out in the mid-1850s. The Colt revolver was a formidable competitor, however.

Don Maguire’s three relic pistols pictured and described in the March, 1917 issue of Outdoor Life. From top: Sharps 44-caliber single-shot breechloading percusssion pistol; 58-caliber Remington rolling block pistol; Walsh Firearms Co. five-chambered, 10-shot revolver. The loads were superimposed in each chamber. The right hammer fired the front charge through a tube in the cylinder wall. The left hammer fired the rear load. Needless to say, the Walsh never really caught on.

The second was a particularly well preserved specimen of a Remington 58-caliber rolling block pistol that Mr. Maquire had acquired at a sale of government surplus items. Maquire told how this model was issued to cavalrymen who discovered that it was just the thing for “riding close to buffalo.” Galloping alongside a bison and shooting it from atop a fast mount was considered to be grand sport for a horse soldier stationed on the range.