Long-Guns of the Gunfighters

For anyone who rode the gunpowder trail, a six-shooter wasn’t the only weapon in his arsenal. A gunfighter often had only one pull of the trigger to save his life in the days before Samuel Colt’s revolvers and Civil War-era repeating rifles. The 20 or more seconds it took to reload a single-shot percussion rifle could mean a permanent vacation in death valley. Even after long-guns advanced to multi-shot pump, lever-action, bolt-action and double-barrel weapons during the last years