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Sammy Davis Jr Fast Draw/Spinning


BarryinIN

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From when guns were not only socially acceptable, but cool. Sammy Davis Jr doing fast draw and gun spinning onstage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6aNzFYHyz8

Think about what you are watching here. The crowd was not only watching an entertainer handling a gun onstage, but one of the Rat Pack- the coolest of the cool. They not only accepted it, they loved it.

Impressive to me is that he is spinning a 7-1/2" barreled gun there. I have done some SA spinning when I was younger and more foolish, and while the shorter barreled ones practically want to spin, a 7-1/2" SAA handled like a brick to me in comparison. Sammy was a small guy, almost tiny, and that 7-1/2" SAA would be like a Casull or BFR in average hands but he makes it look effortless.

And Sammy on The Rifleman episode "Two Ounces of Tin":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddFqDq8LyKI&feature=related

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