WyattEarp on shooting vs gunfighting

Saw this elsewhere and thought it was pretty bad ass. Still relevant for today.

http://looserounds.com/2015/04/23/wy...s-gunfighting/

Hard to argue considering the source..... Not that any of what he says needs to be argued with to start.

As Wyatt Earp was known to say, "you take your time in a hurry".

Accuracy trumpes speed.
First be accurate, then work on speed.
An old edict,still revelant.

The observation Wyatt Earp makes:

"There are two other points about the old-time method of using six-guns most effectively that do not seem to be generally known.
One is that the gun was not cocked with the ball of the thumb. As his gun was jerked into action, the old-timer closed the whole joint of his thumb over the hammer and the gun was cocked in that fashion. The soft flesh of the thumb ball might slip if a man’s hands were moist, and a slip was not to be chanced if humanly avoidable. This thumb-joint method was employed whether or not a man used the trigger for firing."

In Episode 22, Season 5, of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp named "Lets Hang Curly Bill" (originally aired Jan 26, 1960), Wyatt Earp defends Curly Bill Brocius in Court and saves his life by demonstrating how a professional gunfighter such as Curly Bill would cock his Colt 45 using the thumb-joint method vs the ball of his thumb. Curly Bill was drunk, shooting up Dodge. Marshall Fred White demands that Curly Bill turn over his gun. Curly Bill is in the act of drawing it from his holster to turn it over when Marshall White grabs Curly Bill's gun while Curly Bill's thumb joint is on the hammer, causing it to fire, and killing Fred White.

Deja vu on the argument from the TV show that just aired on Friday, May 8, on Encore Westerns.

You can't miss fast enough to win a gunfight. That's a fact. Good read, thanks.

As stated before me, thanks for the good read!!

v/r
SR

Yeah, thanks for posting that up.

Interesting article

Thanks.

That was a pretty cool read... Wyatt Earp, the lawman's lawman. He truly was an inspiration and a badass. I still can't decide who played him better, Kurt Russell or Kevin Costner.