As a historical sidenote I seem to remember reading (Josiah Gregg) that the second most common cause of death on the old Santa Fe trail was accidental discharge of weapon. Apparently as he went on to explain, folks liked to grab their loaded guns by the muzzle and pull them out of a wagon generally hanging either cock or hammer on something causeing the discharge.
Just thought I'd throw that out.
Edit FYI 1st main cause of death was disease/sickness.
Falling asleep while driving wagon and falling under wheels ranked high too!! 😊
My uncle, old skinny McNall managed that trick pulling an old Winchester 30-30 out of a short wheel base Landdrover...shot across his abdomen and scared the living heck out of him.
