I mean, c’mon, if a troublemaker walked into the Long Branch Saloon a-fixin’ to slap leather, wouldn’t he plan on bein’ as stone cold sober as a judge, with all his gunfightin’ skills at their highest stage of tune and thus his chances of victory also at their highest? He probably would-a practiced his draw that mornin’ outside of town, before moseyin’ on in.
“A drunken gunfighter is a weaker opponent.”
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Well said! :-)
I mean, how drunk was anyone at the O.K. Corral in 1881? Everyone there was playing for keeps.
“A drunken gunfighter is a weaker opponent.”
Most gunfights did not happen as depicted on the fantasy of the television or movie western.
There are some people who are scary good with guns when drunk, at least one western gunfighter, Ben Thompson, got into virtually all his gunfights when drunk, and was incredibly effective. He killed at least seven men that were recorded. Four of those were pretty nearly straight out murders, all of them after the war between the states.