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Show Citizen, Press, Review Wei, Aug. 24, 1988 Page "A couple of feet left of center." "Good. Now do it fifty times. Ue just a little powder, so you can see the bullet every time. Remember the path of the bullet is a long fishing pole. You are just reaching out and touching the target. Don't worry about accuracy. Watch the path of the white ball with both eyes, seeing where it hits every time. Ignore the sites and gun bar- It was mid day when Port fired the fiftieth round. Tucking the pistol in his belt he walked back to the cabin. After a brief lunch of salt pork and boiled eggs, Sylvester ordered Port to return to the draw and fire another fifty rounds. "Are you sure ifs necessary?" Port challenged. "Do you want to hit a silver dollar in the air?" "I want to be able to shoot an opponent before he shoots me. I'm not sure hitting a silver dollar has much value." "More than you will ever real ize, bylvester said with finality rel." Sylvester headed back to the cabin. Port began shooting. Except for several times when he used too much powder, he could see the white ball before it hit the bank. I path of the white bullet was like a longfinger with which he could just reach out and touch whatever he wanted to shoot, even silver dollars. But thousands of practice shots were necessary for that to happen. Several times Port wanted to set up targets in the black dirt, bottles ' or pieces of wood, so he could have something to shoot at Sylvester didn't allow this. On the morning of the third day he explained why. "Before you came here you shot with your hand and your eye. I am teaching you to shoot with your heart Every time you shoot your hand tells your heart how it held the gun, and your eyes tell your heart where the white ball went. Your heart doesnt forget, and with time, if you let it, it will guide your hand when you shoot, aiming for his pistol to take aim. The undertaker got to clean him up." "And what does all this have to do with hitting silver dollars in the air?" Port asked. "Hitting a silver dollar in the air is impossible for almost all men. If you can do it they will think you are better than they are. They will be afraid of you. This is especially important in your first fights when you don't have a reputation like I have. Ifyou can shoot a silver dollar most men will avoid you. Those that don't will have sweaty palms and shaking knees. You will have the advantage." Port returned to the draw and fired fifty more white bullets. For three days Port did nothing but shoot white balls into the black dirt. When he became restless Sylvester reminded him that the He invited Port to sit beside him on the edge of the porch. The first two gun fights were the hardest," he began. "Those men were not afraid of me. Each thought he would win, and fought accordingly. I was fortunate enough to survive, but the outcome could easily have gone the other way. It got easier with each additional fight, because my opponents knew about the earlier gun fights and were afraid. The fear made their hands sweat and their knees shake. One forgot to cock back the hammer on his gun. One man even wet his pants while trying to raise you. Just aiming down the barrel of a pistol, the way you used to shoot, will never enable you to hit silver dollars in the air. Once you learn to let your heart do the aiming, you can hit them nearly every time." Sylvester paused to let Port think about what he had said, then continued. "For three days you have been teaching your heart where the bullet goes when the gun feels a certain way in your hand. Now you need to teach your heart that ifs supposed to guide your hand so you can hit the target every time. It's a faith thing, like it says in the Bible, Ifyou believe you can do it, you can do it." The says that?" Port Bible asked. 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