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Rifle Packin’ in the Old West

by | Jul 1, 2007 | Art, Guns and Culture

American frontiersmen devised the best ways to carry a rifle.
While the six-gun may have reigned as king of the silver screen West, in the real Old West, it was a different story. True, the handy six-shooter played a pivotal role in both making the West wild and taming the land and its people, but it was the trusty long gun—be it rifle or shotgun—that was rated among the most important tools of the frontiersman. The vas


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