Best gun moment in cinema history

Another, . . . the good guy had a buffalo gun, . . . angel wing rear sight, . . . looking down a long outdoor staircase, . . . good person coming up the stairs, . . . had to wait 'till they get out of the way to shoot bad guy. I almost fell off the front edge of my seat before that scene was over.
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Sounds like Hombre with Paul Newman and Richard Boone, based on a novel by Elmore Leonard.
 
Spoiler Alert

A bit obscure, but in Performance there's a scene at the end where James Fox shoots Mick Jagger (yeah, yeah, I know) in the head and the camera's P.O.V. moves down through the hole and out into the sky for the next scene.
 
The final gunfight in Unforgiven is probably the most realistic old west gunfight I have seen in the movies. It portrays how most gunfights of that type really went down, up close, smokey and chaotic with the winner being the shooter who is cool and deliberate.
 
Well, if we're going to do entire lengthy scenes...

The shootout at the Victory Motel in L.A. Confidential.

Probably the most realistic gun handling I've seen in a move.
 
Underworld I & II

But that may just be Kate and her catsuit influencing my ... opinion.




Seriously, Sgt. York on the firing line. "Sharpshooter York requests a remark." "Uh Oh. ...Bullseye!"
 
I have two that haven't been mentioned yet.

At the end (spoiler alert if you haven't seen it) of 3:10 to Yuma, when Russel Crow is weighing his SAA in his hand, then takes out his old gang. A fantastic ending to a fantastic movie.

My personal favorite has to be the end of Taken (spoiler alert), where Liam Neeson takes the shot on the guy holding his daughter hostage with a knife to her neck. In every single other movie they talk for 20 minutes trying to make some kind of deal. Here the guy says "We can make a deal," and Neeson answers with the trigger.
 
Big Trouble in Little China

When Kurt Russel jumps out with the submachine gun and keeps jerking the trigger but nothing is happening, until his buddy tells him:
"The safety is on!!"
 
Extreme Prejudice, 1987. Nick Nolte, Rip Torn.

This scene: Cantina Shootout. 4:28.

Most excellent few seconds of 1911 action in a movie ever. Nolte wears a Dillon Precision rig in the movie.

My only criticism of the scene is not gun play, but Nolte's character's behavior as the last of the surviving bad guys make a get away in an old pickup truck. The shooting scene has not been cleared and he casually ignores the possibility of a remaining threat as he steps in the clear and walks over to his mortally wounded cohort (Rip Torn). Not.
 
McQueen: We deal in lead, friend.
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Someone oughta bust you in the mouth.
But I won't. I won't. The Hell I won't!
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C'mon, smile you son of a b...
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