Hardly Wild Bill appeared in the square cocked his pistol [So his gun is ready to fire immediately, Tutt's wasn't]. The distance between the two men was given by all accounts as being 75 yards [Put a hand gun in most people's hands and they will not succeed in hitting a man sized target at 20 yards] Tutt drew his gun and in the meantime Wild Bill rested the barrel of his gun on his forearm taking deliberate aim and shot Tutt in the chest between the fifth and seventh ribs. In reality at that range Tutt was dead the second Hickok cocked his gun.