[ithaca_deerslayer]

This is an interesting video. I need me a shot timer, and I have to see if my single action revolver can beat my semi-automatics

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou_susouj7Y

 

[norton]

careful you don't shoot the family jewels when trying this ID.

 

[DPris]

Impressive skills, but no relation to real life.
I would suggest you not try to fan your single-action revolver.
Denis

 

[ithaca_deerslayer]

Impressive skills, but no relation to real life.

It would matter if you came up against a bad guy who had a single action revolver, and all you had was a semi-automatic

 

[Firearmfanatic]

Impressive skills, but no relation to real life.
I would suggest you not try to fan your single-action revolver.
Denis

I agree. I tried to fan mine back in the late '70s and was awarded with a gouge of flesh taken out of my palm from the hammer spur.

 

[el_jewapo]

Fanning a revolver is obviously his forte. He's much better at it than he is speed shooting a semi auto. A better race would be someone else running the semi against him with his revolver.

 

[KennyFSU]

I only fan myself with a revolver when I'm hot.

 

[MinervaDoe]

I thought it was a cowboy action shooting technique. But, Bob Munden doesn't shoot that way:

But, this guy does .... and the video claims he is some sort of a 'world champion'

 

[DonD]

All I've ever heard is that practice is abusive to revolvers. Bob Munden was an accomplished gunsmith, he could fix any aspect of his guns, most of us are not in that league.

Plus....most of those fanning exhibits are done using wax bullets for safety's sake. Don

 

[jmohme]

I can fire 15 rounds from my semi considerably faster than that guy could fan 15 shots from his single action revolver and probably have a tighter group too!

 

[bac1023]

Can't say I've ever even tried it before.

 

[boilergonzo]

Interesting, but why wouldn't he just shoot both from the same starting position. Silly. No need to add a variable.

He was fast, but I think I will leave that to guys wanting to learn trick shots!

The bottom video of the guy hitting five targets in under a second... ummmmm... Nope! I can't do that! Wow!

 

[DPris]

You've got a guy with great genetics, superb motor skills, a huge amount of practice, enough money to keep rebuilding fanners, and specialized quick-draw leather, hip-shooting a .22 pistol & .38s in a Ruger at short distances.

Plug that into the real world that the rest of us live in.

Not to mention destroying your single-action by abuse it was not designed to take.
Fast-draw single-actions are modified for such use, and still have to be rebuilt periodically.

Munden used to say a fast-draw competitor will have at least three guns:
One he's using, one as backup that was just rebuilt, and a third being rebuilt.
Rotate as necessary.
Denis

 

[ronin.45]

If you are going to try cowboy quick draw and fanning you should have 3 things.
1. A spoon holster
2. A sturdy glove
3. A good gunsmith

 

[Borg Warner]

All I've ever heard is that practice is abusive to revolvers. Bob Munden was an accomplished gunsmith, he could fix any aspect of his guns, most of us are not in that league.

Plus....most of those fanning exhibits are done using wax bullets for safety's sake. Don

I've seen Munden shoot and I always assumed that he fanned the gun. But since then I have seen many videos where he doesn't always fan the gun and it seems like he can fire it just as fast hammer-cocking it with his thumb. And it's really hard to tell how the gun is being fired unless they slow down the camera.

Where he holds the record is not just for how fast he can fire multiple shots, but how fast he can draw a holstered gun and fire it at a target. He has done that in 2/100ths of a second and others have come close but no one has ever done it in LESS than 2/100ths of a second but ther is some controversy about how accurate the timing device was that recorded Munden's time.

It's important to mention that not only was Munden fast, but he was incredibly accurate and could cut a playing card in half edgewise at a distance of 12 feet using live ammo and shoot small coins out of the air. He often gave outdoor live ammo exhibitions using his own reloaded ammo which, he mentioned in a video, used a 250 grain bullet that attained 785 fps.

It's assumed that he used Hodgdon powder because they were one of his sponsors and supplied him with his powder and most likely it was Titegroup powder because that's a good powder for medium velocity target loads, similar to Alliant's Bullseye. He also didn't always use single action guns in his exhibitions. He sometimes used 1911's, shooting two at once, and even DA revolvers such as 38 snubnoses.

At age 68 Bob Munden appeared in Stan Lee's Superhumans. In it, it was found out that his hand is withstanding 10 Gs of force when his weapon is drawn. In a demo, using a Colt .45 single-action revolver, he shot two balloons eight feet apart in less than a tenth of second.

He died two years later at the age of seventy of a heart attack he had while with his wife in a car. She was trying to get him to a hospital but they were too far away. He lived for most of his life in Butte, Montana.

I've tried fanning a single action using a 7 1/2 inch old model Ruger Blackhawk .30 carbine. Occasionally I could hit something but it would have taken a lot more practice to get good at basic point-shooting or "Hip shooting".

 

[RonS]

My dad would come back from the dead and kick my ass from here to the south pole and back.

 

[fnfalman]

I agree. I tried to fan mine back in the late '70s and was awarded with a gouge of flesh taken out of my palm from the hammer spur.

A dude I know fanned his .44Mag Vaquero.

You can imagine what happened next.

 

[MinervaDoe]

My dad would come back from the dead and kick my ass from here to the south pole and back.

Geez. If that's all it would take to see my dad again, I would do it.

 

[RonS]

I thought of that as I posted that, but posted it anyway. After 34 years, I have come to terms with it.

The funny thing is, he shot cowboy fast draw back in the day and did well. He was an amazing hip shot and did PPC and bullseye as well. I have his Ruger Flat Top and the steel lined holster he made and carved for it. I need to take that out and shoot it more.

 

[DonD]

Borg Warner was on target with regard to Bob Munden. An amazingly skilled shooter. As Borg said, time and time again, he would shoot coins out of the air. Good exhibition shooters were pleased to shoot golf balls, a much easier target than a smaller coin.

And yes, he was blazingly fast with his draw. Great dexterity, aptitude and I'd expect, a phenomenal amount of practice. One of the kings of the shooting sport. Don