It took more than just the ability to shoot fast and straight to make a real gunfighter. Anyone who practiced long and often enough could learn to draw and fire with unerring accuracy at an inanimate object or animal.  But it took a special kind of coolness to shoot straight and true at another human being who was trying to shoot you at the same time. Combine that with making split-second decisi


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