“On June 27, 1874, during the Second Battle of Adobe Walls in northern Texas, [Billy] Dixon shot a Comanche warrior off his horse at a distance of 1,538 yards, a distance just under a mile,” Bob Frost at warrior.scout.com writes. “Dixon, a scout and Buffalo hunter, used a 50-caliber Sharps rifle to kill the brave . . . The battle pitted several hundred Native Americans – Comanche, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Kiowa – against a couple dozen buffalo hunters. The Indians withdrew immediately upon seeing the result of Dixon’s shot, according to sources. And for evermore Billy Dixon was a legend.” The U.S. Army withdrew Dixon’s Medal of Honor (he was a civilian at the time). Still, greatest shot ever or, as Dixon protested, luck? Does that matter? [h/t TP]