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* Subverted in ''[[Rio Bravo]]''; when asked why he carries a rifle, Sheriff Chance ([[John Wayne]]) replies that he found there were lots of men faster with a pistol.
* Jimmy Ringo in ''[[The Gunfighter]]''.
* Ned in ''[[¡Three Amigos!|Three Amigos]]'' gets challenged to such a duel when a former fan of his films claims he used trick photography to '''appear''' to be a quick
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* In ''[[Honor Harrington|Field of Dishonor]]'', Honor puts four rounds into a professional duellist, before he can even get one shot off.
* Jack Holloway in ''[[H. Beam Piper|Little Fuzzy]]''. Someone cried a warning, he turned, going for his pistol, and saw a [[Mook]] pointing a gun at him. As two different people commented afterward, pulling a gun on Jack Holloway is simply a way of committing suicide.
* ''[[Hammers Slammers]]''' Joachim Steuben. It took three-fifths of a second from the moment he reached for his [[Bling Bling Bang|highly ornamented pistol]] to his having killed three men, all of whom had their weapons drawn; at least one of them was already aiming at him (and '''very''' eager to shoot). He fired so quickly, in fact, that he wouldn't have been able to get off a fourth shot, because the plastic cartridge disc of the third shot melted from the heat of his rapid firing and jammed the pistol's action.
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