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The Myth of the Single Shot Kill

by | Jul 17, 2010 | Inside History

Hollywood has blown it way out of proportion. 
Is it physically possible to stop a man dead in his tracks? For decades, Hollywood has routinely depicted bad and, occasionally, good guys being stopped and “kilt” instantly by a single gunshot. Sometimes the fatal wound is incurred in the stereotypical gunfight, played out at high noon in a dusty street or later that night, across the barroom floor, after an argument over


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