Again, I must say...

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Pulp

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I think I was about 12 when I watched my last episode of "The Rifleman". A young gunslinger came to town to kill Lucas and enhance his reputation. They met in the street. Lucas tries to talk him out of the gunfight. He says, "Let me show you what you're up against." and places six matches in a crack in a hitching rail, walks back to the middle of the street, spins and from the hip, lights all six matches. The gunslinger allows as to how that's pretty good, then draws his revolver and fanning from the hip puts out all six matches.

Even at 12 I wondered how a match would prevent a bullet from breaking the windows of the store behind the hitching rail. I didn't even stay with the show to learn who won the gunfight, if there even was one.
 

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