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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
It is most definitely not bull.
What you may not know is the technique called "fanning". You pull the trigger, which does nothing, and you fire the gun by cocking it with the ball of the hand. It will fire as fast as you can slap the hammer with your hand. Most people can't hit anything that way, but some can.
I would like to say the object is to be fast, and not necessarily accurate, but he was that too, to a point of amazement.
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that's what that's called, I thought it was something just done in Westerns.
That being said, one thing that my mother has always pointed out about westerns is the rather long distance between the shooters in the traditional main street 'shoot-out' when it's not particularly easy to accurately fire a pistol of the era at that range. One could imagine the rather embarrassed silence after the two pistols fired and both gunmen were still standing but two bystanders were bleeding out on the saloon floor...
