Re: Calm in battle

In a message dated 7/15/99 9:46:28 AM EST, Thomas.Barclay@sofkin.ca
writes:

<< 
 ** I'd agree here that how calm you are has more to do with how you
 shoot. Supposedly Doc Halliday was incredibly calm and that was what
 made him a deadly gunfighter, not lightning speed. A trooper who is
 (if you could be) blase about being shot at is probably a better shot
 with his rifle than a range champion who doesn't get shot at much and
 is all excited about the flying lead.
  >>

Which brings to mind two of my favorite westerns

"Day of the Gun" James Garner as Wyatt Earp and Jason Robards as
Holliday
And "Sunset" with James Garner reprising as a 60+ Wyatt and Bruce Willis
as 
Tom Mixd - great movie avilable on video tape. Here the gunfighter is 
portrayed as standing calmly in gunfire white picking his shots. Most 
gunfighters decried speed, saying it wasted your opportunities.