Shotguns: The Overlooked Superhero’s of the Firearms World Few things were as important to the early American settlers then their firearms. We have all heard the stories of Davey Crocket’s Kentucky Rifle, Wild Bill Hickock 1851 Colt’s revolvers and how the Winchester Repeating Rifle won the west. Seldom spoken of, however, was the everyday workhorse of the frontier – the shotgun. The original wilderness multi-tool, the shotgun hunted game from birds to bears, kept evil doers