PLOUGHMAN , makes a very good point. I live in the west far from a 4 lane road, and have studied for decades the guns old west farmers and ranchers used. The single shot shotgun and single shot 22 rifle have done more to shorten the lives of game animals than any other single type of firearms from my observations. And one thing that us "out westers" dislike is this whole cowboy thing. There were VERY few cowboys then and now. It seems if you lived out west in the 1800's you were a cowboy. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Many more miners, brick layers. lumberjacks, store keepers and farmers than cowboys. The cowboy life paid meager wages then and now so they used whatever was handed down or dirt cheap at the hardware stores.
