Did gunfighters practice shooting?
Tom Clinkenbeard
Glendale, Arizona
They sure did practice shooting. They pretty much lived by the gun and didn’t want to die that way. Men like John Wesley Hardin, James “Wild Bill” Hickok and William Henry “Billy the Kid” McCarty spent a lot of time practicing. The late Hickok biographer Joseph G. Rosa, who died earlier this year, told me that the gunfighter was afraid his guns would not be fight-ready unless he fired and cleaned them regularl
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