Did gunfighters carve notches in their guns?

Did gunfighters carve notches in their guns to count the number of men they killed? Larry Dye Fenton, Illinois It’s logical to think a gunfighter would carve a notch on his weapon for each victim sent on to his great reward (not a government job, but the other one). The act would be similar to scalping one’s enemy, a trophy of hors de combat.  Yet historian Jim Dunham says, “I know of no case outside of fiction of notching firearms.” One of my favorite caveat emptor tales is of a collec