Thursday, April 2, 2009

I stand corrected

So y'all remember how I went off on Hollywood types fanning revolvers in the movies a while back. As I recall, my exact words were:
NO ONE, and I repeat for the hopelessly revolver-naive, NO ONE can fan a single-action revolver and hope to shoot anywhere near accurately.
I stand corrected:





Good gravy.

5 comments:

Mr. Bingley said...

that's insane.

Cullen said...

Yeah, I missed that original post. There was a guy on a Mythbusters' episode who did pretty much the same thing as this guy.

Cullen said...

Well, not as fast as this guy, but fast enough for the average shooter to OMG.

wolfwalker said...

Damn fast. I wouldn't have believed it either.

I do have to note, though, that on the "two balloons" trick I don't think he was shooting standard .45 rounds. I think he was using blackpowder blanks, which don't actually require very good aim. Still an impressive feat, but not as impressive as if he was really putting a bullet through each balloon at 15 or 20 feet.

Mr. Bingley said...

yeah, wolf, it seemed as if the camera really wasn't in a good place on those balloon shots if he was firing lead.

wv: "boximerv" How I can hit Ken 5 times even though I only threw 1 punch