Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp said:
He was shooting a .45 cal pistol and fired 2 shots almost simultaneously without any kick 
He must have had very little powder in that bullet, but he was fast 
The trigger must also have been modified to be "real" hair trigger...
. My mom use to bring me home American riflemans magazines from where she worked when i was a kid.You could say it became my bible. I use to read articles about Bill jordan,probably read some about the other guys that were mentioned here too. So its kind of a privilege talking to somebody that knew him. I never had any formal training like that except from my brother.He use to take me shooting back when i was a wet behind the ears 11 12 13 14 year old. Living in Mass made it quite difficult unless he took me. I'm basically selftaught in the things i want to learn. Reading and common sense were my basic firearms training tools though i wont deny what my brother taught me about marksmanship.That S.O.B. could and still does shoot the hell out of his hawkens .44 rifle, made me feel kind of sorry for any NVA that got in range of his M14 
. I'm talking hitting a quarter at 200 yards over iron sights,i couldnt even see the thing . He was into blackpowder, thats what i learned first. I owned my first pistol at 15. A colonial .44 percussion single shot. He never taught me fast draw. I started getting into that after moving to NH at 18 and getting my hands on a Ruger super single six .22 .22 magnum. I had my own target range out in the back yard. Huge dead oak tree i use to tack home made paper plate targets to.I bet you could pick a couple of hundred pounds of lead out of it 
. I shot every day. Guess you could say that that was my thing. A normal day was coming home from work and banging off 100 to 300 rounds of .22, or what ever day light permited.Weekends easily 500 to 1000 rounds if not more.I got into mid bore shooting after I picked up a llama .357 4" barrel. I shot mostly .38 special with that because i bought it used. After the .357 was pretty much worn loose (also fired quite a bit of .357 out of it) i saved up and bought the .41 mag Ruger 4 5/8" barrel. Very nice gun,very rugged. It could handle loads up to .44 mag specs. Because of the ammo price i got into hand loading with a lee pocket handloader,15 bucks back then for it. A little slow reloading but it served its purpose.I could load a 100 or so rounds in a couple of hours.Its been a while and i forget my powder loads but i used a 210 grain semi jacked softnose on every one.No problems at all reaching out to a 6" by 6" steel plate at 100 yards that i had hanging from a tree branch.Do that with the crap 9mms that are shoved down police and soldiers throats lol, I never had any use for those.At the time i loved instinct shooting and started using a rifles also.It came to be nothing to smoke a cigarette,flick the butt 15 or so feet away then shoot it when it hit the ground from the hip.For moving targets i use to throw tincans onto an old house roof,that was on our property, and shoot at the cans as they rolled down,just pointing the rifle from the shoulder looking over the barrel. I never timed myself on the draw,it didnt really matter to me, it was all in fun.Those were the days,some of the best days of my life. I did that routine everyday (weather permitting)for almost 9 solid years. Sorry for the reminiscing guys.Some real good times back then growing up. Life caught up to me and I moved back to Mass to try to start a band about 20 years ago. I had to sell most of my guns i bought over the years. I refused and still do refuse to take a training course just to get an F.I.D. card or a pistol permit. I kind of take it as an insult. As a friend of my brothers said to me,Who is going to be training who. I still do own a couple of guns but theyre at my brothers house 200 miles away and i dont get to go there very often.One reason im moving back to NH asap. I want to get back into it even though im 50 years old now.Hopefully its like riding a bike lol.
After owning it for a while the casings use to get jammed in the cylinder,what a pain in my you know what. I tried everything,even polishing the chamber walls with fine emery cloth and then crocus cloth. Actually i use to strip all my guns down and polish the parts using only crocus cloth being careful not to remove to much metal.There were times i had to stick a thin screw driver down the cylinder holes and bang the casings out with a hammer.I never owned another H&R after that. I use to wear my holster low too, the pistols handle a little higher than my hand when its hanging at my side.Tying the bottom of the holster with a string around your thigh helps quite a bit too. When i first started i dropped the gun many a time too,you werent alone . I used pillows piled around my feet when i practiced in my bedroom I also use to use an old car of mine as a target,minus the gas tank ,engine,tranmission. Dont believe the movies when the hero hides behinds a car during a gunfight. For an example of 12 gauge slug penetration I used federal 1 1/4 ounce slugs in a remington 870 pump. From about 25 yards I aimed at the corner of the passenger side quarter panel above the tail light. The slug went through the quarter panel through the back seat through the front seat through the dashboard out the firewall and through the fender. Lesson,dont hide behind a car if somebody is shooting slugs at you lol. I did alot of experimenting with bullet penetration. .22s have more penetration than most people think. Point blank out of a rifle a .22 will go through 2 2" by 6" planks and bury itself in the 3rd. A .22 will go completely through 2 car doors unless it hits the window mechanism. .38 specials arent much of a penetration round. Neither is 20 gauge 00 buckshot,it only put dents a 55 gallon steel drum.One 12 gauge load i made up was pretty effective, pull the 00 buckshot out and replace it with .50 muzzle loading lead. Ball bearings were pretty nasty too 
. One fun gun i had was a .22 copy of an M16. It held 17 in the mag and one in the chamber. Nice plinking gun, lots of rounds to make the tincans dance. An M1 carbine is alot of fun to shot too.Back in the day i picked one up for i think 185 bucks,Ive been checking prices on them lately and its become ridiculous, I mean 600 to 800 for one..Yup im kicking myself in the a$$ for selling mine lol. One .22 semi auto rifle i had,stevens savage,i forget the model but it was tube mag fed.Every once and a while it would go full automatic.One time the ejector ripped the .22 casing in half and left the other half stuck in the chamber,the next round that went through went off with it only halfway in the chamber.Made my ears ring for quite a while. I retired that gun after that lol. Never had any problems with the ruger .41, if anybody is looking for a single action pistol for hunting etc. i highly suggest it. Same with the remington 870 pump, both nice guns and they wont let you down. I never even came close to having an accident with a gun, as long as you always respect it they will serve you. I did my share of fooling around but i never lost a bit of respect. Let your guard down once through neglect and disrespect you could pay for it. As Alan ladd said in the movie shane "a gun is a tool and its only as good or as bad as the man holding it". The same applies to a knife a hammer or driving a car.
you might as well play russian roulette by loading five chambers keeping the sixth empty.There were no safeties on Colt .45 SAAs or peacemakers except resting the hammer on an empty chamber.Tie the hammer back,what happens then if you shirt sleeve catches on the hammer spur? You would then be a one legged gunslinger. Amateur move on some fools part if it ever happened.
