The modern coach gun can be had in a variety of configurations suitable for both Cowboy Action Shooting competition and hunting. Modern coach guns are commonly encountered in Cowboy Action Shooting competitions, among collections of Western guns, as home-defense weapons, and even as 'scrub guns' for hunting grouse, woodcock, rabbit, hare, and/or wild pig in scrub, bush or marshlands, where the 24'+ barrels of a traditional shotgun would prove unwieldy. Modern coach guns are manufactured by ER Amantino (sold as Stoeger) (Brazil), IZH/ Baikal (Russia) (which is now being distributed by Remington under the name Spartan Gunworks), Huglu Armsco (Turkey), Khan (Turkey), Diamond (Turkey), and a variety of Chinese companies for US distribution through Century International Arms and Interstate Armscorp. However, according to another account, both men used Greeners. Wyatt Earp also used both barrels of a 10 gauge coach gun to kill Frank Stilwell at a Tucson, Arizona rail yard and to kill 'Curly' Bill Brocius point-blank the next year during the shootout at Iron Springs. They stood in such close proximity that the town mortician was able to cover McLaury's wound with one hand. coach gun to shoot Tom McLaury point-blank in the chest with buckshot during the Gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, on Wednesday, October 26, 1881. Use in the Old West ДЄccording to one account, Doc Holliday used a 10 gauge Wm. From 1908 to 1918 all Wells Fargo shotguns were made by Ithaca. Contrary to myth, Wells Fargo shotguns were not purchased by local agents prior to 1900 they were purchased from San Francisco gun dealers because Wells Fargo's headquarters were located in San Francisco. These shotguns featured external hammers and were manufactured primarily by Remington Arms, Ithaca, Colt's Manufacturing Company, Parker, L.C. There was no single manufacturer for the traditional messenger's gun, as it was a generic term describing a class of shotguns offered in a variety of barrel lengths from 18 to 24 inches (460 to 610В mm) (versus 28 to 36 inches (710 to 910В mm) for bird hunting guns), either by the factory or from owners and gunsmiths cutting down the barrels. Shotgun messengers guarded express shipments, not stagecoaches.

The guard was called a shotgun messenger although the phrase riding shotgun was not coined until 1919. The company issued shotguns to its guards for defense.

assigned shotgun messengers to guard its shipments on stagecoaches in California. The terms 'cut-down shotgun' or 'messenger's gun' were coined in the 1860s when Wells Fargo & Co.

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