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Wyatt Earp knew a bit about gunfighting so here is his take: When I say that I learned to take my time in a gunfight, I do not wish to be misunderstood, for
by User23 4y ago
Wyatt Earp knew a bit about gunfighting so here is his take:
When I say that I learned to take my time in a gunfight, I do not wish to be misunderstood, for the time to be taken was only that split fraction of a second that means the difference between deadly accuracy with a sixgun and a miss. It is hard to make this clear to a man who has never been in a gunfight. Perhaps I can best describe such time taking as going into action with the greatest speed of which a man’s muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick-shooting involves. Mentally deliberate, but muscularly faster than thought, is what I mean.
- skmurphy 4y agoThis is from Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshall by Stuart Lake https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671885375/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671885375/ according to Jul-2-1956 Life Magazine article "Bang" which several longer excerpts https://books.google.com/books?id=7UgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=%22muscularly+faster+than+thought%22&source=bl&ots=X7iSCmLhtQ&sig=ACfU3U3ijqAyHeSexTQoDeGCv7opu_w9jQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizn6yC99r4AhUTmWoFHSnkABsQ6AF6BAhYEAM#v=onepage&q=%22muscularly%20faster%20than%20thought%22&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=7UgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29&lpg=P... See also https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TranquilFury/RealLife https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TranquilFury/RealLife
- wyclif 4y ago"Faster? Faster was his mistake" ~ Little Bill https://youtu.be/jRi_u4GbfIw https://youtu.be/jRi_u4GbfIw