Um I have a time machine I can get more ammo.When your ammo is out. Let's see that auto loader handle the reloads with the available black powder of the those days!
A fantasy gunfight as the original poster stated in the movie with Sharon Stone, "The Quick and the Dead", that bears no similarity to the real gunfights of old...a movie style, just for the fun of discussing it.What type of gunfight? You mean movie style gunfight...stand face to face with one man and the fastest to draw and fire accurately wins? No question in my mind about what handgun I would choose.
Before making up my mind, I would research what Bill Jordan had to say about the subject, and his real gunfights and accomplishments.In my opinion no pistol is faster to draw from an open holster and fire than the Colt Single Action Army. I would use a 4" barrel "Storekeeper Model" because the shorter the barrel the quicker it clears leather. This would lack an ejector rod so reloading is way slow but in classic movie showdowns there is no reloading.
25 yds. S.A.??!! As in single action? This is a fast-draw contest...you going to take time to thumb-cock? Bang, you're dead.this one I think, in a Yaqui belt slide of good quality. It is a .44 spc, so I could find something that would fit in it and function and I'm fast and accurate with it.
Yeah, that movie lost me when the Gene Hackman character looked down at his shadow and saw daylight showing through his silhouette after he was shot. Speaking of Gene Hackman movies, "The Unforgiven" was a much more authentic gun movie, with misfires, Spencer rifle, Schofield revolver, mystiek of the gunfighter exposed as part of the movie plot. "The Quick and the Dead", not so much.Man. You watch REALLY BAD movies.
I was questioning why you had "S.A." on your target in the picture. I drew the inference that you were firing it in single action mode relative to the discussion on this thread.Dahermit, you do understand that most pistols of that era were single action right? and that rossi is double action so in a hurry heck no draw and fire all one motion, but truthfully I can draw and fire a blackhawk or vaquero just as fast because of the grip and hammer design. at 10 yards from an owb holster I will be hovering around 1 second for a draw and kill zone hit with any of the 3 and I'm slow as dirt, but i can empty the Rossi faster
In short, even if a single-action shooter got off the first shot, unlike stopping a timer, he would actually have to hit his target...in our fantasy that is.
If he's Bob Munden (R.I.P.), he'd get off the first AND second shots, AND hit them both