Old Western stories

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nortex97
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Thought the board would find some of this amusing;

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Saturday Snippet: Two renowned gunfighters on the keys to their craft

In an age when many police forces and law enforcement agencies are hobbled by politically correct restrictions, it's galling to realize that our safety against criminal attack lies in our own hands. Nobody's going to come to save us - at least, not right away. The old saw that "When seconds count, police are only minutes away" is (yet again) proving all too true.

Self-defense requires having the tools and the training for the job. A firearm is often the last line of defense when lesser means have failed - but far too many people regard it as some sort of magic talisman, requiring no training or experience to use. That's the opposite of the truth. The late, great Jeff Cooper famously said:

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"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."

You have to know how to use your instrument in order to make the best use of it.
Two of the leading lights of gunfighting in the Old West were Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Both have left us their thoughts on gunfighting and self-defense. I thought it might be educational, as well as entertaining, to read them.

Stuart Lake
's book "Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal", published two years after Earp's death in 1931, has been heavily criticized for relying more on the author's imagination than on its subject's actual accounts (Lake interviewed him only eight times). It also glosses over material unfavorable to its subject, while emphasizing some accounts that are more hagiographic than factual. Nevertheless, it remains a primary source on Earp's life, and does contain a great deal of core material.
Anyway, excerpts go on for quite a while.

https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2021/05/saturday-snippet-two-renowned.html?

More;

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-earpbymasterson/
BarryProfit
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Thanks for posting this. It lead me down an interesting rabbit hole.
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