If you spend an hour or so, you can find so many different accounts from the men actually there that it almost sounds like each guy was describing a different gunfight.
Credible accounts say Oakley may have fired the first shots, with his borrowed 8.
Hamer said he had a shotgun.
You can believe anything you want.
There have been legends bandied about for years concerning Hamer & an 8, but no concrete corroboration of him using one that day.
When I was doing a piece on the 8 & researching it, I talked to a buddy as one source who had done much more intensive research on his own & had even talked to Hamer Jr.
Denis
Credible accounts say Oakley may have fired the first shots, with his borrowed 8.
Hamer said he had a shotgun.
You can believe anything you want.
There have been legends bandied about for years concerning Hamer & an 8, but no concrete corroboration of him using one that day.
When I was doing a piece on the 8 & researching it, I talked to a buddy as one source who had done much more intensive research on his own & had even talked to Hamer Jr.
Denis