How deadly were some of them with a revolver? In 3:10 to Yuma, the villains with fast shots took out many men with blazing speed. Was this accurate? Did many get good at this during the Civil War?
2007-09-10 14:08:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
They were trained by the military to shoot yes they just had a lot of practice afterwards.
2007-09-10 14:13:44 · answer #1 · answered by Steven C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Guns were the new wave of technology during the 1800s just as the internet is the current wave. The TV was the major change of the 1950s, and the internal combustion engine was the life changing technology of the last turn of the century.
The gun is a device that could kill another person from a distance of several hundred yards at the speed of sound. The cowboy's six-shooter does 90% of what a modern Glock does. It was invented during a time when people rode around on the backs of animals. It preceded the invention of the mass-produced car, the airplane, and modern medicine by 50 years.
2007-09-10 15:35:15 · answer #2 · answered by Deckard2020 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The few real gunfights took place at very close range due to the inaccurate nature of hand guns back then. Hand guns were not cheap and not useful for feeding a family. TV and movies are a poor reflection of life at those times.
In the famous OK Corral fight they were so close they could smell each other.
The driving factors then were similar to what is seen in the 3rd world now. Not much work, not much hope and lots of honest people to terrorize. Life was freaking brutal and yet still better than Europe at the time.
If the Civil War taught any of them it was most likely that they were good at being savage. They were also a small minority, most were just honest working people as now.
2007-09-10 14:27:41 · answer #3 · answered by Stand-up philosopher. It's good to be the King 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of them probably did get some practice during the Civil War. After all, a lot of shooting took place on both sides during those years. Also, quite a few soldiers got a lot of practice shooting before they went anywhere near the Army. (Consider the farm boys who had to hunt for their meat.) Also, there were guerrillas during the Civil War ---the most prominent examples would be "Bloody Bill" Anderson and Jesse James--- who could be found mostly in Missouri. Although Missouri officially stayed in the Union, it housed a lot of Confederate sympathizers, and the aforementioned guerrillas took as much advantage of this as they could.
2007-09-10 14:28:30 · answer #4 · answered by allenbmeangene 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all, cutting-area technologies such as electrical energy began interior the east and progressively went west. residences interior the cities interior the east did no longer even start to have gas lighting fixtures until way after the Civil conflict, around the 1880's, and that grow to be in simple terms in residences that should locate the money for it. The exchange to electric grow to be properly after the turn of the century. Many rural residences interior the east did no longer have electrical energy until related to the 1920's. i could say that distant farms interior the west could have been lit via candle easy post Civil conflict. some greater desirable cities, like San Francisco, could have had gas powered lighting fixtures via the 1880's. pictures grow to be in its infancy during and in simple terms after the Civil conflict. during the Victorian era pictures have been extraordinarily high priced and photographers have been uncommon. back, issues went from east to west. If the persons you're writing approximately have been comfortable financially, they could have had a image or 2, yet no longer many. and that they could truthfully be in frames as a manner to guard those high priced little treasures. Victorian frames generally consisted of four products of tough wood that overlapped on each and every of the 4 corners, forming small proper angles on each and every of the outdoors edges. i do no longer think of that they had butane lighters formerly the 20 th ce.
2016-11-14 21:46:58 · answer #5 · answered by gracely 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many got good at it by just practice. Back then you wore a gun, it was a way of life. Just as we have sharp shooters today. Practice practice practice. Held as true back then as it does today.
2007-09-10 14:12:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only officers and some calvalrymen used pistols, most calvalrymen used Carbines (short rifles). And all infantry used rifles.
2007-09-10 14:13:58 · answer #7 · answered by Black Sabbath 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋