How About Some Western Style Sharp Shooting?

[Skyman]

Skyman,

These events are single action only...

Hmm...with a bit of practice, why not..?

[BowMan]

With a bit of practice you can have a bit of fun (pun intended).

But if you want to stand amongst the best you better make it a lot of practice. And by lot I mean thousands of rounds a week...every week...

Here is what Bob Munden who claimed to be the fastest gun that even lived said about practising.

Q: How often do you practice?
Bob Munden: Well, at one time, I practiced in my mind and with my gun just about every waking hour.

He seemed to be a cocky guy but sure there was some talent backing the swagger.

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[TC]

Skyman,

These events are single action only...

Hmm...with a bit of practice, why not..?

Skyman,
Are you sure you can do all that with "a bit of practice" ?
With all my experience I would take at least a year to come a mile near Mundane if I practiced for three hours every Sunday (my normal routine)

TC

[Skyman]

I was referring to Baljit, who is already quite good.

As for me, let's hope some one likes me enough to leave me an inheritance....

[xl_target]

Like the lady in the background says,
holy cow!
You have some videos of you doing similar stuff?

No I do not, unfortunately. This was many years ago.
The other guy in the photo I posted used to work with me and he took us with him to these shoots. He let us use all his equipment. Once he retired, he moved to another state and we stopped going as I do not have any single action revolvers or lever action rifles. At SASS (Single Action Shooting Society) meets, they only allow weapons that would have been made prior to 1900. Since the originals are rare and valuable, certain replicas are allowed. This is where companies like Uberti and Pieta have made their names. One thing that I should mention is that these guns have been worked on extensively to make the actions as smooth and slick as possible. Even then, running them takes a whole different skill set from what I am used to. Even the fundamental grip is different.

Prior to this event, my daughter had never shot a revolver. As usual, with the proper instruction, most women shooters will surprise you. There was an NRA instructor there and he spent about 15 minutes with her before the first match. What we had to do was draw and fire five rounds with the right hand revolver, reholster and then draw and fire five rounds with the left revolver and reholster it. Then you had to run across the room, pick up and fire ten shots with the rifle. All your shots had to hit the target. We didn't use the shotgun as we were dong this indoors. Never having done this before it took me from 45 seconds to a minute (with one run in a little over 30 seconds). Being young and having good hand eye coordination, my daughter was doing it in under 20 seconds (I think one run was a little over 15 seconds). The really experienced shooters at that shoot were doing it in under fifteen seconds. Shaving those last few seconds off takes years of practice.

TC,
Bob Munden was in a class by himself. What he did was fast draw which is a different discipline from a SASS shoot.
This is not to say that he wouldn't have done well in SASS but SASS is a relatively recent phenomenon and has picked up a lot of steam in the last few years.
I should mention also that Bob was an excellent gunsmith, with his own shop and in later years apparently spent a lot of time in that business.