Krish Ashok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 25-Aug-08, at 9:47 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: >> >> This page says the actual event was barely as exciting: >> http://www.topendsports.com/events/discontinued/shooting-duelling-pistol.htm >> > Wait. That article says that they shot at mannequins wearing frock > coats. Were the mannequins holding pistols on auto-fire mode? If they > weren't, how can this be called "Duelling"?
The competitors were shooting with dueling pistols, but the competitors were not dueling with said pistols. Clearly the event lacked the excitement of an actual elimination based multiple round dueling competition, which must be why it did not survive to this day. -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
