Archive for the ‘Fast Draw History - 1980 to Present’ Category.
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| August 16, 2009 |
Shootout at the Durango Depot
The 2009 World Championship
Fast Draw Balloon Elimination
August 14 – 16, 2009
Durango, Colorado
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| July 18, 2009 |
Santos Ford Showdown
A Benefit Event for Caidyn Lee
July 18, 2009
Hosted by Redwing’s Bounty Hunters Fast Draw Club
Sponsored by Santos Ford Lincoln Mercury, 617 West Pacheco Highway, Los Banos, CA 93635
Sanctioned by the Ohio Fast Draw Association
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HOW THE ORYGUN GUNFIGHTERS BEGAN
A cowboy fast draw club in Forest Grove, Oregon
The history of the Orygun Gunfighters began as many fast draw clubs have begun over the years. The club started because I was too impatient to wait for someone else to begin one. I didn’t intend to start Oregon’s first Cowboy Fast Draw club. It just turned out that way, because I wanted a local place to shoot.
Video of some of our Fast Draw Friends in Scotland.
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Fast Draw Champion and gun leather craftsman, Ernie Hill, was one of the first veterans who put up with the millions of questions I had when I got started in Fast Draw in 1997. He also built my first fast draw rig. I emailed him trying to understand the difference between all the draws I read or heard about. This is his response.
The Sundowners Ride Again
by Greg Custodio
George Narasaki founded the original Sundowners Fast Draw Club in Berkeley, California in 1958. The five-member group practiced at a gun club in San Leandro until their move in the late 1960’s to Bob Keeney’s Buckeye Ranch in Lafayette, California. Membership in the Sundowners was by invitation only. During their time at the Buckeye Ranch the club grew to fifteen members, all top Fast Draw competitors. Besides George their roster included well-known west coast Fast Draw Champions Van Gentry, Ken Gentry, Francis Carlos, Ed “Fast Eddie” Hawkins, Jerry Black, Bob Grilli and Helen Stransky. The club found itself in an envied position in the world of professional Fast Draw since Sundowners were regularly taking championship honors home from many of the biggest Fast Draw events in California and the surrounding western states. If the Sundowners showed up at a Fast Draw contest participants knew they were facing some tough competition and it would be a fight for the prize! Sundowners competed in three of the four famous Colt Sahara Walk and Draw National Championships held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sponsored by the Colt Firearms Company and the Sahara Hotel and Casino from 1959 through 1961, this contest was one of the most prestigious competitions in the 50-year history of the sport. The event drew hundreds of competitors, a huge crowd of spectators and reporters from all over the US and Canada to watch the best in the sport compete in an old fashion walk down western gunfight. The contest was held at the height of the Hollywood Western era prompting all the major Hollywood production studios to send some of their most recognizable cowboy stars including Clint Eastwood, Rodd Redwing, Peter Brown, Jock Mahoney and others to the event to promote their movies and TV shows directly to their target audience. Not only did the Sundowners participate in contests, they hosted many championship level events including the 1964 California State Fast Draw Championships in Concord, California. Typical of the large Fast Draw clubs the Sundowners were also active in organizing gun safety presentations and fund raising events for the communities in which they lived. In the early ‘70s George’s family and his construction business had grown to the point where he decided to step away from the world of Professional Fast Draw. He disbanded the Sundowners, hung up his guns, sold most of his equipment and fully immersed himself in his life responsibilities.
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