The Gunslinger's Tragedy

 is a mission in Red Dead Redemption.

Story
Landon Ricketts teaches John how to handle Level 3 Dead-eye.

Mission Objectives
To complete this mission, the player must:
 * Use Dead-Eye to tag and shoot three (3) bottles.
 * Use Dead-Eye to tag and shoot at least two (2) birds.
 * Stop the bank wagon robbery.
 * Destroy the banditos' roadblock.
 * Escort bank wagon into town.

Mission Description
As the mission begins, Landon Ricketts gives you a new Schofield Revolver and wants you to shoot three glass bottles with your dead eye mode. This is simple, just go into Dead eye and mark each of the bottles. After you do that, he tests your dead eye skills again. He fires a shot, disturbing a bunch of vultures, which take off from the roofs and walls. You must kill at least two of them with your dead eye mode activated. After that, Landon Ricketts asks you to follow him into the city. When you enter the city, a scared shopkeeper runs to you and says that his cart, delivering goods to the store has been attacked by bandits. After this short cutscene, you must mount your horse and follow Ricketts to the cart. It is not far from the city, just a bit down the road. The cart is being robbed by three bandits- two of them are normal enimies; with rifles and revolvers, while the third one is holding the cart driver as a hostage. After killing the two rifle-holding enimies, enter dead eye mode and target the third one in the head, because harming the cart driver will result as mission failure. After this short battle, the driver asks you to escort the cart back to the city. On the way back, three more bandits appear blocking the road. Kill them, and finish escorting the cart back to the city.

Mission Failure
The mission will fail if the player:
 * Assaults, kills or abandons Landon Ricketts.
 * Kills Landon's horse.
 * Assaults or kills livestock.
 * Does not use Dead-Eye to shoot the bottles.
 * Does not use Dead-Eye to shoot the vultures.
 * Allows the hostage to die.
 * Assaults the hostage.
 * Kills the horses of the carriage he's protecting.
 * Breaks the law.
 * Kills a dog.
 * Commits vandalism.
 * Assaults or kills townsfolk.
 * Dies.

New Game Elements Introduced

 * Dead-Eye Targeting Level 3

Mission Complete Unlockables

 * Dead-Eye Targeting Level 3
 * Schofield Revolver (gifted)

Trivia
Sometimes you can see John's hat glitch when he puts it back on.