There's a whole ounce too much in the barrel." "What d'you mean ?" asked the cowpuncher.

"I've packed that gun for pretty nigh eight years!" "Sorry," said Dan passing on, "but I can't work right with a top-heavy gun." The next weapon he handed back almost at once.
"What's the matter with that ?" asked the owner aggressively.
"Cylinder too tight," said Dan decisively, and a moment later to another man, "Bad handle.

I don't like the feel of it." Over Jim Silent's guns he paused longer than over most of the rest, but finally he handed them back.

The big man scowled.
Dan looked back to him in gentle surprise.
"You see," he explained quietly, "you got to handle a gun like a horse.

If you don't treat it right it won't treat you right.