Posted on 03/11/2009 4:56:03 PM PDT by Guns
Warning-Do not try this at home!-Bob Munden
After that check out this great video... Jesse James shreds a car with a gun
ENJOY!
Ping for later.
That was VERY cool.
I love the line in that video:
“Is there anything faster than what you do?”
“Yes, the speed of light”
Yeah, that guy is kindof a dork, but he sure is FAST.
Ah, I can do that. Here, hold ma beer and I’ll show ya...
How is your foot?
That’s what that guy looks like he is doing. Probably has a wooden foot! LOL!! Seriously though, that is some fast shooting with accuracy. Way way out of my league!!
It’s fun to watch, but what people should realize is the whole Wild West, fast-draw gunslinger trope was made up by eastern novelists and Hollywood. It was plenty violent, but there were no fast draw, man against man facedowns in the old west. When someone wanted to kill someone else, they gun their gun out and proceeded to shoot that person. They didn’t challenge them to a fast-draw contest. And even Wild Bill Hickok disparaged the fast-draw talkers by saying it was one thing to shoot fast, and another thing to remain calm when hot lead is flying your way. Accuracy and steadiness under fire were far more important than getting the gun out of the holster quickly.
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