Ouch! Facepalm......

[Team Sergeant]

I've watched one of these shows and didn't think it was a very good idea using real guns for a hollywood style skit.......



2 people hit during Tombstone Old West gunfight re-enactment
By: Associated Press
Posted: 4:33 AM, Oct 19, 2015


TOMBSTONE, AZ - Officials called for gunfight re-enactments in the Old West town of Tombstone to be put on hold after two people were hit with bullets during a show that was supposed to involve blanks.

The shooting occurred Sunday afternoon as two actors in the Tombstone Vigilante group engaged in a standoff as they re-enacted an episode from the town made famous by Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the O.K. Corral.

The Tombstone Marshal's Office said one of the actor's guns fired live rounds, hitting a fellow member of the group. Ken Curtis fell to the ground and was flown to a hospital in Tucson, where he underwent surgery to remove the bullet. Other rounds struck businesses and a bystander whose condition was not immediately known.


http://www.abc15.com/news/region-central-southern-az/other/2-people-hit-during-tombstone-old-west-gunfight-re-enactment

[bandycpa]

Ken Curtis fell to the ground and was flown to a hospital in Tucson, where he underwent surgery to remove the bullet.



Festus always was a tough old goat.

[PSM]

I had "re-enactor" friends who worked at Old Tucson Studios in the early '70s and they loaded each others guns while the others watched and only gave it to them before the show started. Still, the blank wads were a concern so they never aimed much above waist high.

Tombstone is tough, though, since you have re-enactors interacting with armed visitors. Even the non-show locals often dress the part but are truly packing heat. I love the blue-haired grannies wearing SA cowboy revolvers on their hips. :lifter

Pat