The keyboard cowboy has a unique knack for butting into civil,informative discussions and reducing them to good ol'fashioned internet flame wars. But I kill a lot more rattle snakes with a shovel than I do with the pistol.The sarcastic,combative,and apparently omnipotent self-appointed expert on any topic of discussion. When I do pack a pistol on the ranch it is an H&R 22 revolver loaded with snake shot during snake season. I have a Kimber Micro 9 that might pack to town (much more likely to need a gun there than on the ranch).
The few that pack while riding it is generally some sort of semi auto 45. I have yet to see a scabbard rifle pack while riding. Here in the cowboy country of Eastern Oregon everyone has some sort of scope sighted rifle in their pickup. Peter used it to hold off the Indians while everyone got saddled up. Peter and 17 cowboys present with only one gun. There was a time during the Bannock Indian war that a war party attacked Peter French's cow camp. Ben Snipes, Peter French, and John Chisum who were all big time cattle men in the time era you list all didn't carry. In the "old west" they didn't carry as much as Hollywood would have you believe. If these "cool cowboy guns" can convert American anti-gunners, then god bless them! He claimed to me that "only police officers" could own handguns in New York City. Perhaps, getting a "fun cowboy gun" might have (gladly for us pro-gunners) put gun rights and American firearms traditions in a new light for him. He told me his family was of strong Democrat and gun control mentality as well. 30-30 of all things as a fun gun to shoot at the range. I met a young air force fellow of Asian decent from New York City in 2017 who told me he wanted a Winchester lever in. The Old West/Old West style lever guns by Marlin, Henry and Winchester still seem to be as popular as ever even with hunters and non-cowpokes. There might still be a real working cowpoke today sporting a Peacemaker in the holster somewhere. It could be that cowboys in 1880 commonly carried a Colt Peacemaker then because no Blackhawks or autos were around yet.īecause of Hollywood, some folks still envision cowboys with old-fashioned guns today. Like a branding iron or a hay fork, I can't imagine any American rancher, farmer or sheepman without at least one gun as a tool of the trade. I've driven through the deserts of Southern Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and SoCal lately. The West can still be wild in some parts. There is still the possibility of rustlers today. They had to protect stock from predators and stray hound dogs. Do American cowboys still carry the same shootin' irons in the saddle today, do they use modern reproductions of Old West guns or do they carry entirely modern firearms?Ĭowboys once had to fight Indians, robbers or rustlers. This is what I think of whenever somebody says "cowboy guns". 44-40 as well as the Sharps buffalo gun in. 45 Colt, the Remington 1875 and the Winchester 1873 lever gun maybe in. Back in the real Old West (about 1865-1895) it was the likes of the Colt Peacemaker in. I'm not just talking about Cowboy Action shooters, I mean rootin-tootin working cowboys on the spread and in the range.
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