Modern day pistol to win 1881 gunfight?
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dahermit said:
Probably because the rules don't permit them? Kind of the same reason that you don't see NFL linemen using baseball bats on the defense to protect the quarterback. The baseball bats would make the offense MUCH more effective, unfortunately the rules don't permit them.
Fast draw rules are here:
http://www.cowboyfastdraw.com/images/stories/pdf/Forms/Gunslinger_8thGuidelines_FINAL.pdf
Ah, yes, the 80s!!
Ahh, yes, 80's, I remember them well! The days when "GAY" meant "happy", "ERECTIONS" were BUILDINGS, and our PRESIDENTS WERE NOT GEO-POLITICAL GUTLESS WONDERS!!
<shaking head>
Almost forgot:
I'd want an alloy-framed .45 ACP Gold-Cup, 50 pounds of Hercules Unique, 10,000 rounds of .45 ACP Ball, 100 extra Wilson Magazines and Jeff Cooper, Ray Chapman, and Jack Weaver in my "gang".
OH, and enough Ciprofloxin, Rifampin, Isoniazid and Ethambutol to treat Doc Holliday's tuberculosis, if I could locate him in time. By all accounts, he was a royal pain in the @$$ to be around, but entirely too good a man to die so young. He's one of the "Patron Saints" in my personal pantheon.
Ahh, yes, 80's, I remember them well! The days when "GAY" meant "happy", "ERECTIONS" were BUILDINGS, and our PRESIDENTS WERE NOT GEO-POLITICAL GUTLESS WONDERS!!
<shaking head>
Almost forgot:
I'd want an alloy-framed .45 ACP Gold-Cup, 50 pounds of Hercules Unique, 10,000 rounds of .45 ACP Ball, 100 extra Wilson Magazines and Jeff Cooper, Ray Chapman, and Jack Weaver in my "gang".
OH, and enough Ciprofloxin, Rifampin, Isoniazid and Ethambutol to treat Doc Holliday's tuberculosis, if I could locate him in time. By all accounts, he was a royal pain in the @$$ to be around, but entirely too good a man to die so young. He's one of the "Patron Saints" in my personal pantheon.
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Please reduce the size of your pictures.
The "high noon show down" is 100% Hollywood. Very few, if any, actually ever happened.
The 'Code of the West' is more Hollywood nonsense. You don't shoot your friends. In the Stone movie, Hackman's character would have been shot in the back by a guy with a rifle. Mine would be my 1903A4 from away over there.
Bubbalouie, modern qweecksdraw competitions don't use real bullets or real ammo. Primers powered wax bullets only. Read Page 17.
"...All projectiles are to be CFDA Approved .45 caliber wax bullets only..."
"...need a Johnny 7 OMA..." Got it. None of the projectiles though. snicker.
The "high noon show down" is 100% Hollywood. Very few, if any, actually ever happened.
The 'Code of the West' is more Hollywood nonsense. You don't shoot your friends. In the Stone movie, Hackman's character would have been shot in the back by a guy with a rifle. Mine would be my 1903A4 from away over there.
Bubbalouie, modern qweecksdraw competitions don't use real bullets or real ammo. Primers powered wax bullets only. Read Page 17.
"...All projectiles are to be CFDA Approved .45 caliber wax bullets only..."
"...need a Johnny 7 OMA..." Got it. None of the projectiles though. snicker.
A lot of posters here are missing the point of the original post...it was about a fast-draw contest, not about a gunfight. Therefore, shooting in the back with a rifle would not have won the prize. It was about how fast the contestants could "slap leather" in a totally fictional setting (not "code of the west, or historically correct, etc.) as in the movie.
My comment about "why there are no fast-draw competitions using autos" was rhetorical. I meant that revolver grip shape is superior to the shape of auto grips when it comes to the speed of grab and shoot...unless you can show me some person who can beat Bob Mundon's, Bill Jordon's, or Jerry Miculek's (revolver shooters) time with an auto.
My comment about "why there are no fast-draw competitions using autos" was rhetorical. I meant that revolver grip shape is superior to the shape of auto grips when it comes to the speed of grab and shoot...unless you can show me some person who can beat Bob Mundon's, Bill Jordon's, or Jerry Miculek's (revolver shooters) time with an auto.
walks with gun
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Set phasers to stun
zincwarrior
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.300 magnum with a nice piece of glass from 600 yards. Pistols are for amateurs who forgot their rifles.
If your goal is revenge, act like it.
Now if you actually want to win a fast draw competition:
*STI with tactical sights and ported.
*more importantly a USPSA style holster rig.
If your goal is revenge, act like it.
Now if you actually want to win a fast draw competition:
*STI with tactical sights and ported.
*more importantly a USPSA style holster rig.
Strafer Gott
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A Sig 226 in a Blackhawk for speed and accuracy. It's so much like a revolver on the first double action shot. I was taught to draw to presentation, then press out to shoot. It's smooth, and fast. Better still, it's accurate.