I really wouldn’t want to try to fast draw against this particular Oklahoma Good Old Boy.

We have here an old 1950s or 1960s video of exhibition shooting by Captain Dan Coombs, “the pride of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.”

He was written up in the American Rifleman here.

Dan Coombs was the real life version of the sort of law enforcement officer you find in the novels of Stephen Hunter.

Bob Munden, an exhibition shooter and holder of countless speed and accuracy shooting records, died suddenly of a heart attack last month (December 10th) at the age of 70 in Montana.

Telegraph:

One journalist reckoned that if Munden had been at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, on October 26 1881, the gunfight would have been over in 5 to 10 seconds. He could whip out his Colt .45 single action revolver (as used by John Wayne), shoot a target and replace the gun in his holster in .0175 seconds, and over his lifetime he won more than 3500 trophies, 800 championship titles and bagged 18 world records in speed-shooting.

Munden’s accuracy was deadly. He could burst two balloons six feet apart in what sounded like a single shot and split playing cards — edgeways. He might not have been quite as fast as the French cartoon character “Lucky Luke”, the cowboy who could “draw faster than his shadow”, but Munden’s audiences sometimes needed slow-motion action replay to convince them that what they had just seen was not a trick.

Munden was so fast that it was generally agreed that he could draw and easily shoot down an adversary holding a gun on him every time. In fact, Munden was so fast that he could have drawn his gun from his holster and shot down an opponent who was actually in the process of pulling the trigger. The other guy would still have lost.

This video was made a few weeks before his death.

Watch this amazing 4:17 video

Munden could get off two shots so fast that the naked eye could not see that there were two shots fired.

Hat tip to Henry Bernatonis.