folks,
mostly. Worst form of varmint. Quite a choice here...Now this gun" — he
brings out a Colt Frontier 45-caliber, seven-and-a-half-inch
barrel — "a best seller...Throws a
big slug...But it isn't throwing the biggest slug that counts, it's
hitting something with the slug you throw. I'd rather hit someone
with a 22 than miss him with a 45... Now this little 22 here ... hammerless, two-inch barrel,
double-action smooth and light ... a good
holdout gun you can stash in your boot, down in your crotch, up your
sleeve...I knew this Mexican gun, El Sombrero, with a holster in
his hat. Dressed all in black like an undertaker...'Ah senor, I
am so sorry for you.' Then he'd sweep his hat off like he was
standing over a coffin, and blast right through the hat ... You'll
be wanting something heavier of course."
He brings out a Colt
Frontier with a four-inch barrel. "This load is sweet-shooting
and heavy enough ...32-20... Winchester
chambers a rifle for that load and some folk wants a rifle and
handgun shooting the same load. Well, a rifle and a handgun are not
made for the same purpose ... the 32-20 is a good pistol load, accurate and hard-hitting, but
it's a piss-poor load for a rifle ... Too
heavy for rabbit and squirrel, too light for deer, just enough to
aggravate a bear. There's no good rifle load between a 22 and a 30-30. Here's a double-action 38 with three-inch barrel. I done some work on that gun,
lightening up the double-action trigger pull, close to a hair
trigger. You can keep it right on target for six shots...Let me show
you a trick with a double-action gun... " He puts a glove on his left hand. "Now you hold the gun with
your left hand above and below the cylinder...You can spray six
shots right into a silver dollar at thirty feet...Don't ever try
it without the glove...
"And here's a
custom-made beauty...Smith and Wesson tip-up ... built
like a watch. Chambered for the 44 Russian,
a target load for trick shooting. You can put out a candle with this
gun at twenty feet. It will teach you how to shoot...And this" — he
brings out a Smith and Wesson 44 special
double-action with three-and-a-half-inch barrel — "is
for business. I can see you have the makings of a real shootist and
that's why I'm talking to you...A real shootist don't start trouble.
He just don't want nobody to start trouble with him. These punks go
around picking gunfights to get a reputation are no fucking good from
the day they're born to the day they die...You'll be meeting plenty
of their type. When they come in here I just sell them the
worst-shooting gun I got in the shop and I got some real lemons,
Annie Oakley couldn't shoot with ..."
Kim is making a
selection of holsters..."Don't ever use a shoulder
holster ... awkward movement, and it can't
mean anything except reaching for a gun. The less movement the
better. For the 22 or the 38, if you want to carry it concealed, use the Mexican style:
holster clips over the belt and goes down inside the waistband. Just
open your coat and drop your hand to your waistband like you was
hitching up your belt or scratching your crotch, and come up
shooting...Drawing your gun should be an easy flowing casual
movement, like handing someone a pen, passing the salt, conveying a
benediction...
"I knew this
gun called the Priest who would go into a gunfight giving absolution
to his opponent...Lots of ways to create a distraction and
discombobulate your opponent just so long and long enough. This one
gun kept a tarantula in a spring box at his belt. He could push out
his gut in some key way and the tarantula flew right in the face of
his adversary...Don't pay to get too smart. They lynched him for a
spider-throwing varmint ..."
Kim packs his
purchases. On his way back to the hotel he stops off at the
drugstore. An Old Chinese behind the counter nods at each item.
Bandages, tincture of iodine, snakebite kit, two ounces of laudanum,
medicine glass, and eye dropper ...
"Do you have
hashish extract?"
"Velly
mostly. Worst form of varmint. Quite a choice here...Now this gun" — he
brings out a Colt Frontier 45-caliber, seven-and-a-half-inch
barrel — "a best seller...Throws a
big slug...But it isn't throwing the biggest slug that counts, it's
hitting something with the slug you throw. I'd rather hit someone
with a 22 than miss him with a 45... Now this little 22 here ... hammerless, two-inch barrel,
double-action smooth and light ... a good
holdout gun you can stash in your boot, down in your crotch, up your
sleeve...I knew this Mexican gun, El Sombrero, with a holster in
his hat. Dressed all in black like an undertaker...'Ah senor, I
am so sorry for you.' Then he'd sweep his hat off like he was
standing over a coffin, and blast right through the hat ... You'll
be wanting something heavier of course."
He brings out a Colt
Frontier with a four-inch barrel. "This load is sweet-shooting
and heavy enough ...32-20... Winchester
chambers a rifle for that load and some folk wants a rifle and
handgun shooting the same load. Well, a rifle and a handgun are not
made for the same purpose ... the 32-20 is a good pistol load, accurate and hard-hitting, but
it's a piss-poor load for a rifle ... Too
heavy for rabbit and squirrel, too light for deer, just enough to
aggravate a bear. There's no good rifle load between a 22 and a 30-30. Here's a double-action 38 with three-inch barrel. I done some work on that gun,
lightening up the double-action trigger pull, close to a hair
trigger. You can keep it right on target for six shots...Let me show
you a trick with a double-action gun... " He puts a glove on his left hand. "Now you hold the gun with
your left hand above and below the cylinder...You can spray six
shots right into a silver dollar at thirty feet...Don't ever try
it without the glove...
"And here's a
custom-made beauty...Smith and Wesson tip-up ... built
like a watch. Chambered for the 44 Russian,
a target load for trick shooting. You can put out a candle with this
gun at twenty feet. It will teach you how to shoot...And this" — he
brings out a Smith and Wesson 44 special
double-action with three-and-a-half-inch barrel — "is
for business. I can see you have the makings of a real shootist and
that's why I'm talking to you...A real shootist don't start trouble.
He just don't want nobody to start trouble with him. These punks go
around picking gunfights to get a reputation are no fucking good from
the day they're born to the day they die...You'll be meeting plenty
of their type. When they come in here I just sell them the
worst-shooting gun I got in the shop and I got some real lemons,
Annie Oakley couldn't shoot with ..."
Kim is making a
selection of holsters..."Don't ever use a shoulder
holster ... awkward movement, and it can't
mean anything except reaching for a gun. The less movement the
better. For the 22 or the 38, if you want to carry it concealed, use the Mexican style:
holster clips over the belt and goes down inside the waistband. Just
open your coat and drop your hand to your waistband like you was
hitching up your belt or scratching your crotch, and come up
shooting...Drawing your gun should be an easy flowing casual
movement, like handing someone a pen, passing the salt, conveying a
benediction...
"I knew this
gun called the Priest who would go into a gunfight giving absolution
to his opponent...Lots of ways to create a distraction and
discombobulate your opponent just so long and long enough. This one
gun kept a tarantula in a spring box at his belt. He could push out
his gut in some key way and the tarantula flew right in the face of
his adversary...Don't pay to get too smart. They lynched him for a
spider-throwing varmint ..."
Kim packs his
purchases. On his way back to the hotel he stops off at the
drugstore. An Old Chinese behind the counter nods at each item.
Bandages, tincture of iodine, snakebite kit, two ounces of laudanum,
medicine glass, and eye dropper ...
"Do you have
hashish extract?"
"Velly
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