One bullet. You like those odds? That surprises you. He used to make my mother and me watch people being hanged. One day, he said there was too much bad in this world. He took a bullet, put it in his gun, and spun the chamber. Then he took it in turns, clicking it at each of us, until he blew the back of his head off with the final click.
Understand this: There is nothing on this Earth that frightens me now. Equipment: 1 revolver note Almost always a six round revolver, but a few revolvers exist that carry more or less rounds. Setup: Load one chamber. Half-cock the hammer to free the cylinder. Spin it. Fully cock the hammer to stop it. Alternative for double-action revolvers With the cylinder swung out to the side, spin it and slap it back into the frame.
Rules: Each player, in turn, puts the gun to his head and pulls the trigger. First player to die loses. Portrayals of the game differ as to whether the cylinder is spun after each trigger pull. If it is, the game can continue indefinitely with a 1 in 6 chance of hitting the loaded chamber each time. If not, there are a maximum of 5 chances to not die, the odds decreasing by one with every pull of the trigger, assuming the cylinder has 6 chambers and the ammunition round isn't a dud.
If the latter, to deal with the extreme boredom, as their assignment was often referred to as 'counting trees', while the former was to try and get out of the extremely bloody and inglorious war. There is no indication, however, that this is true as such outlandish behaviour would have most likely been recorded as suicides, and duels were usually described in length , as the first mention of this game as well as the name 'Russian roulette' itself appears in a short story of the same title by Georges Sundez, a Frenchman.
Also, the most common revolver issued by the Russian Army at the time, the Nagant M, had a cylinder that could not be freely spun and also had seven chambers, but that's not really important. Today, it's seen as the one of the more manly stunts available because of the risks involved, reduced somewhat by the common one-round-six-chambers setup.
