Posted on 05/28/2022 6:16:03 PM PDT by simpson96
The object of fast draw as a combative sport is to quickly draw one's pistol and fire with the most accuracy. The sport has been inspired by accounts of duels and gunfights which incorporated it during the Wild West, such as the Wild Bill Hickok – Davis Tutt shootout, Luke Short – Jim Courtright duel, gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Long Branch Saloon gunfight and others, which in turn inspired the gunfights seen in Hollywood western movies. Gunfighters Jim Leavy and Tom Carberry became infamous for participating in at least two quick draw duels in their lifetimes. In the case of Jonathan R. Davis, the quick draw is also necessary for a gunman to fight back if he is ambushed. Though many gunfighters were remembered to be dangerous with a pistol during the American frontier, only a few known historical individuals have been noted by historians as "fast", such as Wild Bill Hickok, Doc Holliday, John Wesley Hardin, Luke Short, Tom Horn and Billy the Kid.
Top 10 Western Movie Shootouts
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Open Range, Costner shoots 11 rapid fire shots from his revolver.
There was a samurai movie I subbed recently and a samurai cuts off a dead short branch from a tree with his sword and tomahawks it at a woman with a revolver with his free hand, knocking it away from her.
Only lasted a second, but I never saw that before in a gunfight.
I haven’t watched the video, but someone once told me that the most realistic gunfight scene was in ‘The Culpepper Cattle Company’. Don’t know, never seen it.
Enthusiastically agree!
The last fight in “The Wild Bunch.”
I remember the one near the end in The Shootist.
Lee Marvin laughingly firing at and wounding Jimmy Stewart, until The Duke wiped that smirk off his face.
Clint Eastwood’s end of movie shootouts in pale rider and high plains drifter.
Good the Bad and the Ugly satellite view of the location of the final shootout.
Ditto! The gun shots in Open Range were the most realistic I've heard in a Western. I have fired a number of Old West black powder cartridge revolvers and rifles and that is just what they sound like.
Gene Wilder for that matter.
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Charles Bronson vs Henry Fonda at the end of One Upon A Time In the West.
How about listing the top ten shootouts so we don’t have watch the 18 minute video? :)
Not a Western movie, but some of the best shootouts were in Justified.
Clint Eastwood shoot out when they assassinate the first target in unforgiven, and the final shootout, especially where he threatens the entire town better leaving the bar.
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