are there any gunslingers in the modern world?
Yes, but as participants in organized competitive sports like action shooting events, harking back to the Wild West.
Gunfighter
People relive the Wild West both historically and in popular culture by participating in cowboy action shooting events, where each gunslinger adopts his or her own look representing a character from Western life in the late 1800s, and as part of that character, chooses an alias to go by. The sport originated in Southern California, USA, in the early 1980s but is now practiced in many places with several sanctioning organizations including the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS), Western Action Shootists Association (WASA), and National Congress of Old West Shooters (NCOWS), as well as others in the US and in other countries. There are different categories shooters can compete in.
who has the fastest hands in the west UNANSWERABLE what is the origin behind the term gunfighter? The term "gun slinger" was used in the Western film "Drag Harlan" in 1920 and was soon adopted by other Western writers. Gunslinger and Gunfighter are words used in a similar sense.
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Gunfighter [SEP] Modern gunslinger
People relive the Wild West both historically and in popular culture by participating in cowboy action shooting events, where each gunslinger adopts his or her own look representing a character from Western life in the late 1800s, and as part of that character, chooses an alias to go by. The sport originated in Southern California, USA, in the early 1980s but is now practiced in many places with several sanctioning organizations including the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS), Western Action Shootists Association (WASA), and National Congress of Old West Shooters (NCOWS), as well as others in the US and in other countries.