02-12-2006, 02:32 AM
>They forgot zombie hunters.
Very true. It also played an important part in a historical battle against another type of undead.
From the journals of Dr. Seward, as collected by B. Stoker in "Dracula":
'Of course we shall go armed - armed against evil things, spiritual as well as physical.' Here Quincey Morris added:
'I understand that the Count comes from a wolf country, and it maybe that he will get there before us. I propose that we add Winchesters to our armament. I have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any trouble of that sort around. Do you remember, Art, when we had the pack after us at Tobolsk? What wouldn't we have given then for a repeater apiece!'
'Good!' said Van Helsing, 'Winchesters it shall be.