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Company B, Stale Ranger Force Fort Worth, Texas...
...your August 3 issue of TIME I see a note on the Texas-Oklahoma "Bridge War" to the effect that Ranger Captain Tom Hickman had "hit 18 out of 20 matches at 50 feet shooting from the hip;'' also that Ranger Goss had "cut a playing card at 20 yards with his pistol inverted...
...free and toll bridges, I did not have a pistol in my hand, in fact 1 am such a poor marksman that I never shoot until the other fellow has shot at me. I have been busy writing letters trying to explain how it could be do'ne. Ranger Bob Goss, a member of my company, can hit a playing card turned edgewise with his pistol turned upside down. He does this about twice out of every five shots...
...Burkburnett, Ranger). 78,149 East Central Texas...
While motorists made a twelve-mile detour to another bridge, the Texas Rangers under mighty Captain Tom Hickman answered Governor Murray's criticism that "all they can do is cuss and shoot craps" with a public demonstration of their marksmanship. Captain Hickman shooting from the hip hit 18 out of 20 matches at 50 ft. Ranger Goss, firing his pistol upside down, split a playing card...