The most successful gunfighters in the Old West were firm believers in maintaining their firearms. As the story goes, handsome, homicidal John Wesley Hardin took a break from his notorious rampages and was cleaning his six-gun in his hotel room one day when a bullet he had accidentally left in the chamber went off, killing the person staying in the room next door. Oops. Today’s shootists are a bit more careful. Whether they’re cowboy action shooters, cowboy mounted shooters, hunters or Wi


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