During a pistol duel how do the participants know when to draw their gun?

Question

I’m basing all my knowledge about gun duels on movies. Based on the movies I’ve seen there was never any countdown other than taking ten steps forward and then draw. But usually they stop at the 10th step and either a rooster crows or something else happens and then they draw.

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Answer 1

In the context of movies – whatever the writer and director thinks looks cool.

Outside of the context of movies – whatever is agreed upon. Believe it or not, duels didn’t happen a ton.