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Gutshot!

by | Jan 1, 2008 | Inside History

Could Peter Fonda survive a slug to the abdomen?
“You feel your belly fill up with blood. You’re bloated. You can’t move. You can’t breathe. You can’t die!” cried Clay Lomax, played by Gregory Peck, as he described the sensation of being gutshot in the 1971 film Shoot Out. Peter Fonda, as bounty hunter-turned- Pinkerton guard Byron McElroy in the 2007 film 3:10 to Yuma, received the opportunity to test Lomax’s


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