Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Wednesday Western - Cowboy Gun Lingo

The term "six-shooter" evolved from the revolver developed from the old "cap-and'ball" one-shot gun into one that would shoot six times. The Texas Rangers coined the phrase. The "Single-Action Army" Colt was nicknamed the "Peace-maker" and "Hog-leg". The term "Hog-leg" was also used on any frontier pistol.

The single-action pistol was referred to as a "thumb-buster." and a modelw ith a semi-round butt was called a "parrot-bill."

Other names used for personal weapons were:
forty-fours
Forty-fives
Cutter
Iron
Talkin'-iron
hardware
Shootin'-iron
blue lightin'
Flame-thrower
Lead-pusher
lead-chucker
Persuader
Smoke-wagon
Equalizer
Man-stopper

A pistol was always called a gun but a rifle with the exception fo a "buffalo gun" was never called a gun. They were:
Winchester rifle
Thirty-thirty
Worchestershire

Shotguns were  Scatter-guns

Source: Cowboy Lingo by Ramon F. Adams

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