[Hellgate]

Back in the day (late 80s-early 90s) we typically had one revolver stages often with reloads. But as the sport became more popular and we needed to move more shooters through the stages the pistol reloads were dropped and a second handgun was used. Today, if you showed up at a match with only one revolver there would be several shooters willing to loan you an extra and maybe even the ammo for it so you could shoot the match. Twice I have forgotten pistols and twice I was loaned both guns and ammo so I didn't have to drive home w/o shooting the match. That's just how Cowboy /action Shooters are.