head on over to my pal Lunkhead's board-
http://www.lunkhead.net/board/phpBB2/index.php
he'll help you out if no one over here know the exact answer (like me, and they did several western themed shorts). I don't recall one where Curly ate bullets off the top of my head, but it sure could have happened.
and should have, if it didn't!
David