Oh, just lots of horse drawings.  There’s no other reason for this page.

And pointing out that Arnold’s favorite pulp books may have had a core of truth.

A discussion of a recent western in True West (not recommending anyone read this mash of nostalgia and amnesia seriously) brought up belly shots, and whether someone could survive them.  In the movie Will Penny (Rat Patrol director), a kid gets belly-shot. He’s left in the freezing weather in an un-hitched wagon in front of a very raw frontier saloon and pig butchery, because it will hurt him too much to move him. The usually scum-bag owner says he’ll fill the kid up with whiskey — at no cost — until he goes. The kid’s party leaves him, and we expect we’ll never see him again.

Nearly at the end of the movie — after some passage of time — the kid shows up again.  He’s very weak and pale, but he’s walking on his own. It is possible that, keeping the body temperature very low — the Russians use it — combined with alcohol poured steadily through the gut — no virus or germ an survive alcohol — might have given the boy a chance to survive at least a few more years.  It’s well done and believable. It sounds right.

So if you’re ever belly-shot in the boonies, make sure it’s in the winter and you have lots of booze.