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"Fire early"
Uhhh, "cowboy duals" were on "draw," not "make ready, aim, fire." They had rifled barrels and six shooters by then not smoothbore muzzle loaded flintlocks with one ball that's likely to miss.
"There was 40ft between them when they stopped to make their play, and the swiftness of the Ranger is still talked about today. Texas red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped"
This line means Texas Red was slower on the draw than the Arizona Ranger with the big iron on his hip, that's all. Texas Red reached for it (they stopped to make their play), but the Arizona Ranger was so much faster (the swiftness of the Ranger) that Red's gun never even fully made it out of the holster (Texas Red had not cleared leather) before the Ranger's shot connected ('fore a bullet fairly ripped).
BTW: These duals are almost entirely an invention of hollywood. They did happen but very very rarely and not exactly like the movies portray. I fucking love Marty's music but the music he made isn't based on historical fact, but rather hollywood fantasy. It's basically The Outlaw Josey Wales in song form, and there's nothing wrong with that.
https://hi-luxoptics.com/blogs/history/wild-west-quick-draw-duels-how-real-were-they
That said, by the hollywood rules, the dual was fair as all hell.
Reading dual instead of duel messes so much with my head.
Lmao well alright I never claimed to be a spelling bee champ, there's no squiggles on homophones! Haha
Kinda weird that we don't have grammar checking just built-in to language packs, etc.
Of course, as I'm writing this, Boost is giving me grammar checking, so now I don't know what to believe.
Tbf I'd probably reject it anyway because it'd rely on AI and I'm basically 2s away from microwaving anything "smart" and communicating by encoded mail only lol.