User blog comment:Elgb333/Season 1 Finale: Cowboys vs Cossacks/@comment-4454770-20150422134207

Damn you beat me to it. I kind of like the idea of pitting a cowboy against a cossack because of their funny similarities such as being frontiersmen and wearing funny hats :)

Seeing that their weapons are all smokeless gunpowder, so here's my prediction

Melee: The bowie knife's balde is more lethal and can kill with one blow. It can also be thrown. The khinjal is a good dagger but has fewer options.

Edge: Cowboys

Pistol: The two weapons have their own strengths and weaknesses. The Nagant is a double action and has a bigger muzzle velocity. The Colt, when used ambrixtously, has the faster rate of fire, punching power and rate of fire. I give the edge to the Colt because cowboys are more adept with pistols than any warrior in history.

Edge: Cowboys

Rifle: The two rifles again has their own strengths and weaknesses. I give the edge to the Mosin nagant because it uses the more powerful and long range rifle round.

Edge: Cossacks

Special: The Sharps rifle is the better rifle than the Berdan with its more lethal round, range and firepower.

Edge: Cowboys

Winner: Cowboys

The cowboys wins most of the weapons comparison. Even though the Siberian Cossacks were a military unit, this is completely shattered because their inferior quality of training and performance in a war (they contributed to Russia's lose during the Russo-Japanese War).