i know my family dates back to at least the 1890's in arizona, and were also active in the cattlebusiness. My father for sure knew a lot of the early cattlemen, other than family , and for that matter the lawmen.
He once told me you would have to be stupid to be matt dillon, in gunsmoke, on the main street.
His comment was the weapon of choice was a shotgun or rifle, from ambush.
now as to a handgun, i own his, it has quite a history including a killing on whiskey row, a colt saa bisley in 38wcf.
the interesting part is the scabbard, where leather has been removed around the trigger/trigger guard area for quicker access.
It' quite surprising how fast you can draw and fire a colt from a belly gun position.
having said that i doubt if most cattlemen had much use of them, where a rifle they did.
i am not a gunman, but it is not issue to draw and fire a colt and hit a pop can out to about 20yards or so.
only disatvantage is slow to reload.
Last edited by RoninPhx; 12/04/19.
