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For thems what don't know, a single action revolver does not re-cock after firing, which makes this demonstration almost unbelievable. |
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Single action shooting
10 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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You can see that he's fanning 'em, though. That guy's fast, all right.....
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11/21/06, 2:39 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Do you realize how hard it is to fan and hit the same mountain twice? Amazing feat.
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11/21/06, 2:42 PM
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Anonymous said...
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'Deed I do....I have a hard enough time hitting that same mountain with my .45 Auto held in both hands.
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11/21/06, 4:19 PM
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Anonymous said...
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As I understand there are some "tricks to the trade".
Not knowing anything about this demonstration, but bullets can be made out of plastic/wax and powder amounts at only enough to get the "bullet" to reach the target, thereby, reducing or completely removing recoil, (especially in old large single action revolvers).
Still lots of pratice and fun to demonstrate, but comparing it to fanning with standard ammo which is what most of us have used if we have even shot a single action is apples to oranges. Recoil, causing the need to reaquire targets, is what slows shooters down. -
11/21/06, 4:27 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I couldn't unload my .45 that fast even if I were only pointing it at a mountain.
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11/21/06, 11:44 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I can't even move my hands that fast in an approximation of a fanning motion.
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11/22/06, 5:58 AM
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Anonymous said...
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There is TV program that shows an older man in his I would say fifties breaking the world record with a revolver firing regular ammo and hitting a record number of small targets it used to come on on Sunday before the NFL games. I think it was called the American Shooter. He would give some demonstartion at the end of each show.The speed he reloaded with was unimaginable. There is also the legendary lawman and FBI agent Jelly Bryce while attempting to arrest one of Ma barkers gang the thug pulled 2 auto pistols. Bryce shot him in the head 4 times before he fired a shot with a revolver. Bryce killed I believe 17 men in line of duty. It was a fact the armed thugs would surrender sometimes when Bryce would arrive on a scene.You can read about him on the web. Just do a search for Hoovers gunman.Yet there has never been a movie made about this man that I know of.
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11/22/06, 6:55 AM
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Anonymous said...
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The guy you're talking about may be Jerry Miculek, the king of the DA revolver. He can reload one faster than most of us have ever thought about reloading our autos. Here's a relevant YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giSaNiQ-Wb4
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11/22/06, 7:53 AM
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Anonymous said...
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10 words on this subject:
Ed Magivern Ed Magivern Ed Magivern Ed Magivern Ed Magivern
Learned about him a LONG time ago.
Found this on the web a few minutes ago:
"Ed Magivern could shoot five shoots in .49 sec. and cover the group with a silver dollar. and 50 shoots out of ten guns in 20 sec.
He would hold a dollar in his right hand, drop it, draw with his right hand, shoot and put a hole in the dollar before it hit the ground.
Not too bad. With a revolver. -
11/22/06, 3:58 PM
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Anonymous said...
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It took him a fraction of a second to hit all five targets and about 4 seconds to describe what he did. Good with a pistol, not so sharp at math....
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11/22/06, 7:39 PM
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