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I knew and stayed in touch with Jim Arness all my life and was honored to be in his Autobiography. I was on a U.S.A. radio broadcast with him once and asked him about Leo Gordon. He remembered him fondly and mentioned that Leo wanted to use his own personal gun and holster rig for the HACK PRINE episode so they let him do that.

Matt, really was fast!

Nicely done! Your choice of scene is perfect!

GROWING UP WATCHING GUNSMOKE, I STILL LOVE IT TO THIS DAY, ALL WHO CASTED ON GUNSMOKE WERE GREAT ACTORS, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.♥️♥️♥️♥️🎭🎭🎭🙂🙂🙂

Just so happens that when I watched this last year on my DVD, I had to back it up and do a slo-mo myself 'cause I couldn't believe Matt would have shot Hack a second time. The slo-mo showed me that Hack was trying to shoot again when Matt gave him the 2nd one.

Adapted from a July 5, 1954 radio episode.

Matt was formidable!

How much fun was this slo-mo shootout? And, of course, our hero "Marshall Dillion" beat the bad guy. Thanks for sharing with us.

looks like leo gordon as hack prine, all around cowboie for industry