More background and references ...
“Duels, Truels, and Game Theory Gunslinger Rules” - http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/duels-truels-and-game-theory-gunslinger-rules/44764
“Distribution of winners in truel games” - http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/7439/2/paper.pdf
Best “truel” standoff ever in the movies ...
The Good The Bad and the Ugly Finale - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXldafIl5DQ
Little Bill told Mr. Beauchamp that whenever a gunfighter is confronted with superior numbers he shoots at the best shot first.
Now I can challenge two people at a time.
High Noon only comes once a day, and with this technique I can work on my list of people to duel twice as fast.
Not too hard to figure...be faster than one guy and take the bullets out of the third guy’s gun while he’s sleeping. No problem!!
Why not just study the real thing and read up on the four-way shootout that Richard Davis (the founder of Second-Chance Body Armour) won when he was still delivering pizzas for the pizza shop he used to own?
What am I missing here? If you drop your gun and the others shoot your still dead less then a second after they shoot at each other.
Win in a 3-way gun fight? Strictly adhere to Rule 1 of a gunfight: Don’t be there.
In the actual west, the famed walk down fast draw contest almost never happened. Holsters were unbelievably crude. At OK corral Wyatt Earp didn’t even have one. Like most shooters,, it was stuffed into his belt.
Guns were carried in coat pockets, pouches, belts, and army holsters.
Ambush and shooting from cover was the order of the day. The TV gunfight is about as real as the 50 shot peacemakers they usually use.
Also, throughout the writings of that era the term “quick gun” was widely used. But it is always referring to a person who was quick to resort to a using a gun in a situation,, not to the 1950s concept of a super fast draw, from a thick buscadero holster.
“When you have to shoot someone, don’t talk, just shoot!”
I’ve combed the internet to references concerning fast-draw gunfighters. The truth is: they were made up by eastern novelists and the myth was propelled by Hollyweird. Think about it. You want to arrest or or shoot someone and you’re going to hope you can pull your gun out of your holster faster than your opponent? There’s no way that’s going to happen. People seeking to arrest or shoot other people in the old west had their guns drawn and aimed.
Do the rules allow you to sequester the bullets of your opponent’s gun in your hand.