Long-time readers may remember that I’m a big fan of the Shorpy Historical Photo Archive site. In fact, it’s one of the few that’s in my “favorite” RSS feed tabs in Safari. I never get tired of seeing what they’ve come up with!

Last Friday they showed a picture taken in 1909 of a gentleman (I assume it was a man) dressed up in protective clothing and holding a pistol. Labeled “dueling with wax bullets“, it strongly resembles what today we refer to as “force-on-force” training. Everything, it seems, has been done before!

Photo courtesy of Shorpy

Check out the Shorpy site for a very LARGE version of the picture.

-=[ Grant ]=-