I’m pretty sure it’s not just Hollywood, I’ve seen old drawings and paintings of people in battle or duels and they always only use one hand to aim and fire pistols, even after multishot revolvers and pistols are developed.
Why? It’s not like using two hands only became more supportive and stable after 1910.
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This was answered 4 years ago on this thread in r/history
Basically switching to two hands allows for speed gains when shooting multiple times at targets.
Single hand is fine for shooting slowly at a single target, but is not as efficient at shooting at different targets.
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