Guns & Knives
Pieces of the West
Six gun models for anyone looking to get their hands on a piece of the real Wild West
By Bradley D. Pettit
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Cowboy Action Shooting Fills a Gunfighter Fantasy
Ever dreamed of getting duded up like Wyatt Earp and walking the boardwalks of Tombstone, guns ready at the hip with an urge to fling lead? If so, Cowboy Action Shooting may be the sport for you.
Cowboy Action Shooters take aim at the annual End of Trail competition.
The single action revolver, so named because a trigger performs the single action of firing the weapon after the hammer is manually cocked, is a simple, dependable, and highly effective design that’s synonymous with sidearms of the Old West—the Samuel Colt-designed Peacemaker being the most widely known example (see page 96 for more of that story).
Follow these six steps and you’ll soon be a crack shot with a six-shooter
It was a skill—even a trade—that went by many names: gunslinging, throwing lead, leather slapping, gunplay, makin’ the town smoky. By whatever name, in its Old West heyday it was a high-stakes affair that could make a man a legend or cause him to lose everything in a fraction of a second.
“take your time... in a hurry!”
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Should cattle branding be replaced with other identification technologies, like iris scanning, tattooing, tagging, etc.?
Yes- branding is a cruel, 19th-century anachronism.
16%
No- branding is cost effective, efficient, and humane.
84%
Total votes: 50
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