Farm guns....

[Larryjk]

It sounds a little unusual, but my father also had some kind of a break-open .38 revolver that he carried when he sold cattle. That was in the days before trucks and the cattle were loaqded on the train and sent to Omaha market. Dad rode along in the caboose and after the cattle were sold, took the money in cash. He had to stay in a hotel over night and slept with the money in a money belt around his waist and that 38 in his hand. He never did tell me where it went. But that was a different time, and he was protecting what he had worked hard to earn.

[skeet]

Along with the guns y'all have mentioned..most every place had an ol cat and rat gun in the granary. Usually loaded to shoot the rats that the old farms almost always had. It was our job to kill them with the old cat and rat guns..usually with either a short or shot cartridges. Usually had a box of ammo on one of the 2by whatever wall bracing. Same guns were quite often used to dispatch hogs on hog killin days. I bought an old Iver Johnson 410 skeeter at a farm auction one time too. old fellow told me it was used to help feed the family for many years. Rabbits skwerl and quail..