50 Best Country Songs About Shooting Guns

Top Country Songs on Shooting and Firearms

There’s a certain charge that runs through tracks tied to guns in country music. It’s not a clean thrill, not pure danger either, but something layered in between. You hear the echo of a rifle in the lyric and it drags up images of dusty backroads, pickup beds, and long nights where the rules slip a little. The sound itself becomes part of the atmosphere, tangled up with stories of heartbreak, defiance, or plain rowdy fun. Some songs lean literal with hunting and range talk, while others weave gunfire in as metaphor, but all of them carry that edge that sticks to the memory.

These tracks don’t tidy things up for the sake of radio gloss. They feel like the music was built for moments that spill over into something unsteady. Sometimes it’s rowdy celebration, other times it’s tension you can’t shake, the kind that rattles like a shell casing on concrete. Country isn’t the only genre that’s played with this sound either. You’ll find echoes of it in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, where gunfire becomes shorthand for rebellion, anger, or raw release. The mix of tones keeps the theme from ever being one-note, which is what makes this lane of music so unpredictable.

Not every track ties directly to pulling a trigger. Some circle the theme loosely, using it as a backdrop or a way to frame an emotion that wouldn’t hit the same without that imagery. A hunting story can sit next to a ballad of heartbreak or a rowdy anthem and somehow still fit. That overlap is what keeps these songs hitting in unexpected ways. Here are the best country songs on shooting guns.

1. 'Big Iron' by Marty Robbins

2. 'Don't Take Your Guns to Town' by Johnny Cash

3. 'Gunpowder & Lead' by Miranda Lambert

4. 'The Devil's Right Hand' by Waylon Jennings

5. 'Gun Song' by Zac Brown Band

6. 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' by Gene Pitney

7. 'Me and My Uncle' by The Grateful Dead

8. 'Saturday Night Special' by Lynyrd Skynyrd

9. 'Gunslinger' by Corb Lund

10. 'The Master's Call' by Marty Robbins

11. 'Gunslinger's Glory' by The Dead South

12. 'Fast Hand' by Cody Jinks

13. 'The Ballad of Billy the Kid' by Billy Joel

14. 'The Last Gunfighter Ballad' by Guy Clark

15. 'El Paso' by Marty Robbins

16. 'The Battle of New Orleans' by Johnny Horton

17. 'Cattleman's Gun' by Dean Brody

18. 'Running Gun' by Marty Robbins

19. 'Down The River' by Chris Knight

20. 'Bullets in the Gun' by Toby Keith

21. 'A Country Boy Can Survive' by Hank Williams Jr.

22. 'Bubba Shot the Jukebox' by Mark Chesnutt

23. 'The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia' by Reba McEntire

24. 'Pistol Packin' Papa' by Al Dexter

25. 'The Shot Gun Boogie' by Tennessee Ernie Ford

26. 'I Don't Have a Gun' by Robert Earl Keen

27. 'Long Black Rifle' by John Michael Montgomery

28. 'Fire on the Mountain' by The Marshall Tucker Band

29. 'Hair Trigger Colts .44' by Chris LeDoux

30. 'The Weight of the Gun' by Corb Lund

31. 'The Streets of Laredo' by Marty Robbins

32. 'Jeannie Needs a Shooter' by Warren Zevon

33. 'Hells Coming With Me' by Poor Man's Poison

34. 'The Man With the Gun' by Robert Mitchum

35. 'The Ballad of Dood and Juanita' by Sturgill Simpson

36. 'Love and a .45' by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

37. 'A Gun' by Billy Joe Shaver

38. 'The House That Built Me' by Miranda Lambert

39. 'Black Magic Gun' by Tom Rush

40. 'Rocky Raccoon' by The Beatles

41. 'Cupid's Got a Shotgun' by Carrie Underwood

42. 'Pancho and Lefty' by Townes Van Zandt

43. 'Trouble with the Gun' by Lynyrd Skynyrd

44. 'Harder Cards' by Corb Lund

45. 'Jeans, Boots, and Guns' by The Last Gunfighter

46. 'Whiskey, Women, and a Gun' by Chris LeDoux

47. 'The Ballad of Irving' by Frank Gallop

48. 'Two Gunslingers' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

49. 'Tougher Than Leather' by Willie Nelson

50. 'God and Guns' by Lynyrd Skynyrd