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To: Bob434
"They did an excellent job filiming that draw scene-"

Yes, after watching true life quick draw men over the years, the director did that scene well. Especially like how Doc twirled his gun and holstered it after shooting Ringo. BTW, do you know that didn't actually happen, although much of Tombstone is based in fact. Sometime after the "Vengence Ride", Ringo was found shot dead laying up against a tree. Speculation is that his cow-rustling days caught up with him or the Earp posse went back again.

Until I saw Tombstone and started researching the history, like most, I thought that the shootout was the only action from earlier movies. Turns out, the "Vengence Ride" was bigger than the shootout at Lot #42.

Sorry, folks, but it was not at the OK Corral, which was located on Fremont Street which was and is still the main street.
The shootout occurred around the corner on Allen Street in a vacant lot behind the OK Corral. Wikipedia has it wrong when they say it occurred 2 blocks away on Fremont Street. Nope.

I know because I stayed there 3 days and 2 nights while supporting the Minutemen back when. It is truly a one horse town and memorized every aspect of it, not to mention reading the 2 definitive books on the Earp saga with historical maps of the town included. The staged production of the shootout is scheduled every day for tourists on the same vacant lot on Allen Street where it occurred.

109 posted on 10/12/2015 12:21:20 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: A Navy Vet

Ringo that’s his name- Yep- it was one of my favorite shootout scenes-

I went ot niagra falls once, and there they had the world’s fastest draw on video- Wow! The dude was so fast you couldn’t see anything but a blur- And he was accurate too

Dunno how real it was but also saw the current world’s fastest draw on TV shoot through a lifesaver hole with a really fast quick draw- could’ve been trick shooting, I dunno- but his draw was just a blur—

[[BTW, do you know that didn’t actually happen, ]]

No I didn’t- thanks for the info-


118 posted on 10/12/2015 3:03:24 PM PDT by Bob434
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