Tuco, you need to be working for the history channel or discovery channel. Your videos just simply amaze and are more than entertaining, they are absolutely AWESOME
I am over eighty years old and can honestly say that I grew up on westerns and practiced my fast draw with a Ruger single Six. I never came came close to your speed but had a lot of fun trying. The video is excellant. Some camera manipulations were obvious but you showed how the masters of illusion did it. I remember Parade Magazine ran an article featuring Hugh O'Brian showing his draw against alarge timer. I don't recall how fast it was but it was far less than a second. Something like 21/100. I have tried to find a reprint without success. I am a naew viwer of your videos,this the first time I have sent a comment. I have subscribed and am looking forward to enjoying more. Thank you for bringing back some fond memories.
Wow! Thank you so much for the nice and thoughtful comments! Welcome to my channel. I love western movies and still watch them on the Cinevault channel on Tubi all the time. Be sure and hit the "all notifications " on the subscribe bell if you want to see every upcoming video. Otherwise UA-cam will not nessisarily show you them. 😃
I was a big fan of Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp. I remember the Parade Magazine article but I don't remember the exact time. 🙂 This video is first time I've heard the term "race gun".
Sammy Davis Jr. was an excellent gun handler. He was on at least two episodes of "The Rifleman" and did a demonstration of his skills once his TV show.
The real “fakery” is the notion that these kinds of “fast draw duels” ever happened. It’s almost entirely a fiction created by pulp-novel writers of the time, later picked up by scriptwriters.
The time and effort you put forth on your videos is greatly appreciated, sincerely thank you! Do you have a favorite Western movie list? Perhaps your top ten or twenty? Hollywood needs to recruit you for a western, you have such valuable knowledge, your input, would make for a modern Epic!!!
Great job all around with content and editing, you should have more subscribers and I suspect you will soon. A lot of us grew up recreating the scenes in westerns first with toys and then real guns for fun, I learned my lesson on how dangerous thumb cocking is when my friend let one go off early with the bullet hitting a rock and me getting fragged in the shin feeling like I was shot for a second or two, that was enough of that. I've noticed old SW double action revolvers with an ejector housing added on in some movies I suppose to make it easier for the actors.
I wonder if there are some competition holsters for revolvers like the CR Speed Holsters or Alpha-X Double Alpha holsters? Those are for Semi-Autos, but you only need to pull the gun upwards a quarter of an inch to clear the holster, they lock onto the trigger housing.
Hey brother, my dad was an amazing gunsmith. 50 plus years. He had a little gunshop in Ranson WV. When he first started gunsmithing, after he got out of the Marines, he built 2 of the most beautiful single actions. When he purchased them one was a 38 spc and one was a 357. He converted then both to 45 colt. He sent them both back to colt and they color case hardened the frames. He had them matched, with walnut grips. I grew up with those guns. He knew Arvo Ojala and built a two gun rig. When he became ill and was unable to work, he ended up selling them with the rig. I miss those two guns. They weren't modified other than the action job dad did on them. You would have loved those guns. Keep the videos coming brother. PEACE ✌️ p.s. I think I already told you this story. But I miss him more every time I see a single action revolver.
My wife and I love old westerns and I’ve noticed the very thing you have explained all except the close ups of the longer leads on the race guns. I’m gonna show this to my wife!! Thanks for the video Tuco!!!!!!!
One amusing scene to me was Blazing Saddles, where they shown the gang getting guns shot out, where it's sped up, & you never see Gene Wilder even so much as move, lol. I felt it was a true moment of satire about movie magic.
Yea, I fan also, because if you pull the hammer back as your drawing, the gun is then live before it clears the holster & shooting one’s self is not a desired outcome! 😬😬😬
This was brilliant!! loved it thanks, your channel is quality and you being able to practice fast draw, cowboy shooting, using race guns, your fast triple shots! and sharing all this WoW too cool, keep em coming 👍
Another great video, very entertaining. I don't know the story behind your saloon, but it looks great! I guess I'll have to look through some of your old videos to get the story.
From what I understand there are only like 3 proven "high noon" style duels from the old west days. One of them of course is Wild Bill lol And I'll never forget the Wyatt Earp quote "Fast is good but precise is final"
Damn! I gotta' try that with my flintlocks. I'm thinkin' I can take some jugglin' classes and just try to remember which one's already been fired as they go up and down in my hands. Great video, Tuco. I like's me .45 LC's too.
Well this was a good video. You do a bang up job of educating us. Thanks for the work you put into all your content. It's always obvious that this is your passion and you enjoy sharing it with anyone interested.
Cool video, thank you! I was a little just a tad bit disappointed that I didn’t see you mention anything about my favorite spaghetti western hero, Trinity. Terence Hill and Bud Spence had three or four movies that they were in, they were always either brothers or best friends, and I think that they were sped up a bit, I am assuming just from watching it, but some of the scenes were pretty cool. Old westerns with a huge amount of humor.
What film/show is this at 11:14? That is hands down the coolest draw I think I've ever seen in a pulp Western. P.S. found your channel because of RDR2 and immediately subscribed. I love your videos, sir. Hats off to you!
My man you shine like the Sun at high noon. Awesome video, super fun to watch you entertain your viewer. Your demeanor reminds me of Clint E. in his western movies. Keep them rolling. I notices even the planks used on the prop house behind you are cut with the correct era of saw blades; i can tell from the cut marks, I am an old school carpenter...
When it comes to western fast draw from the actual old days did you ever hear the saying that "you take your time in a hurry"..? It kinda makes sense seeing how they didn't have race guns back then.
I really needed this video; I had a great time watching it while enjoying a late-evening snack. :) And those movie scenes at the end! One of them was from "Red River" (1948), a movie I'm currently watching. I love your channel-even though I know nothing about guns, I'm actually learning something from your videos. :) Growing up, I was more into reading Western books than watching movies. Zane Grey was one of my favorite authors as a kid. :) I did enjoy Western movies, but here in Eastern Europe-and especially back in the Soviet Union days-we didn't have access to many Westerns. Maybe a couple of spaghetti Westerns, and that was it. Your videos bring back that nostalgia for me.
@@TUCOtheratt I've never heard of this author before, but thanks for the unintentional recommendation! :) I looked online and picked up a copy of "The Sackett Brand" by this author.
Louis L'amour was a terrific writer of frontier stories, also wrote Hondo, Shalako ( movies). J T Edson was also a prolific writer of westerns and in fact was English. George G Gilman ( real name Terry Harknett ) too was English he wrote the novelization of a Fistful of Dollars under the pseudonym Frank Chandler, he is best known for writing the EDGE series classed as blood and soil westerns, often with gallows humour and detailed descriptions of what a bullet could really do to a person as in richochet around inside the body bouncing off a bone and ripping up an organ in its trajectory, he also wrote other westerns in a similar vein under psudonyms, Jubal Cade as Charles R Pike, Apache as William M James and a few others the books were often very violent which put off some people, all a matter of taste, in 2015 Amazon Prime aired a pilot show named Edge after the series of books adapted by and directed by Shane Black. I saw it it was very good, it went down well with viewers but for some reason the network decided to keep it on the back burner with options to develop it further in a later time.
Wow I that’s very cool brother! Suggestion, if and when you do an another vivid on Hollywood fast draws, actually show Sammy Davis jr and his fast draw abilities! I do sorta remember he as pretty good with firearms, including twirling too! Rah! Btw, you’re getting really great at narrating by the way!
Tuco. Another informative video. I feel you bring to life the Old West. I'm English. Like my late Father. I Love the Western Genre. So many great people working on them. I often wondered how fast some actors were in gunfight scenes. I didn't think about Race Guns. Tuco your videos are brilliant. Keep well. By the way. Although there are too many actors playing Cowboys to mention. Both myself & my late Father were fans of the actor Lee Van Cleef.
... found your channel ... thanks for sharing the tips, the insightful, the historical and hysterical ... the audio/video is fab ... helping me to understand the Colt SAA better ... the more I learn the less I know ... :)
That's great information because we have all watched and loved westerns but I thought Boy ol' Boy they must have done a lot of shooting to get that fast!
I don't envy a LOT about the USA, but the number and type of guns available is one of them. And having you as a neighbour I could learn from. If you ever come to Italy I'd sure like to buy you a drink or ten and listen to you talk about single action guns. My favourite in terms of looks is the Colt Navy 1851. Probably the converted one to fire .38 specials is a bit more "practical" since black powder tends to be messy, but that octagonal barrel just looks good.
I like to think old west gun fights were really more like Judge Roy Bean's fight with Bad Bob. ;-) Why be on the street when you can be relaxing in the barn loft!!
Fascinating! I am reminded of the scene in The Three Amigos where where the Mexican bandit thinks one of the Amigo's fast draws are just special effects, and finds out the hard way that they are not. You show yourself fanning. Can you it anything if you do that with live ammo? My understanding is that that is just pure Hollywood and never really happened in the old days. Liked and subscribed.
Thanks for the sub and nice comment. Fanning very rarely happened if at all in the Old West but it is mentioned from time to time. I can hit man size targets fanning out to 12 yards or so
The 5th shot in the last Eastwood sequence impresses, as wrist turns off axis with arm, to get the last bad guy on his left. I think in real life that’d be almost impossible.
I love watching old westerns, and I love guns, and recently found your channel, this was one of the best vids I've seen in quite awhile. can you explain how the extended notches in a race gun help the speed? I do see the obvious difference in the cut, but not sure how that speeds it up. thanks
And then there's always the ole, dirty, low-down guttersnipe technique: when the duel is arranged for a specific time, and place: thereby giving the antagonist opportunity to strategically place multiple shooters in various positions. This was demonstrated in "Once upon a time in the West" where Frank (Henry Fonda) was setup by his own men.
Thank you Tuco for this lesson, I was always wondering how do they do it in the movies, now I know......thank you for explaining this illusions...good job!
You could have also mentioned that Arvo Ojala taught a lot of movie stars how to fast draw, and he also made the belts and holsters for a lot of the movie stars.
Thanks Tuco! Great share. Let me know when you are ready to bring back and film the next great western. I will volunteer my services as a Gaffer or whatever it takes to make it happen. 👍🏼
It's a cliche at this point, we're all here to see it no matter how real or unreal it is. Like lightsaber fights in Star Wars (when they were actually well choreographed, lol, fy to Disney). And the best part, both in regards to gunfights and swordfights, is that some of us like Bob Munden or our amazing presenter here manage to become pretty much as good as the editing tricks would have us believe the movie characters are. And that's another thing we're all here for.
The Light Sabers tho cool looking would actually be a real menace if they were themselves real but mostly to the weilder lol, one extra eighth of an inch and you could have lopped off some of your limbs lol. Imagine holding one and having a sneezing fit lol.
My only beef(a big one) with Westerns from the '50s/'60s/'70s was that there was no effort to make them factual/reality-based. Sure it was fun to watch the fictitious duels. But if you wanted somebody dead in the Old West, you'd shoot them from the shadows or bushwack them outside of town, etc. Any 'real' duals were generally like in "Apoloosa" where the guns were already drawn and down at your side, bodies turned to the side, not square on. No reason to give your opponent a wider, square-body shot. But what fun is that when you want a Hollywood duel.....
New subscriber here I have seen a few of your UA-cam Shorts. I am new to the SAA world I just bout a Uberti .45 Colt. I love it I am curious what you currently shoot with it appears to me to be Ruger Vaquero but not sure. I enjoy what you do watching you in action is pretty awesome, I would like to see a instructive video on how to fan or 3 round speed shoot. Thanks for your great content.
Anyone know where the name comes from? Tuco. Spoiler: I do. The movie it comes from is actually a trilogy. The character has kind of a love/ hate relationship with the main character. Clint Eastwood played the Man With No Name in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, and For a Few Dollars More. Tuco was his friend/enemy.
Just watched your video and subscribed. Very interesting. I’ve never seen a SAA race gun. Another actor who was an extremely fast draw was Audie Murphy. I watched him making a movie when I was a teen and he was messing around with his draw for a upcoming scene and the man was fast.
@@bob456fk6 yeah, at 5’5”, and barely 120lbs, Audie Murphy was a force the Nazis and Italians hadn’t figured on dealing with. Biggest little man in the Army.
Very interesting episode...Eastwood's infamous 'laughing at my mule' scene, slowed down, it is clear he never would have hit the last two bad dudes...The muzzle is way high....Still, very aawsuum. And I was too young to notice how fake Arness shooting was in the opening scene of Gun Smoke. The famous gun fight I wonder about is Hickock vs Tutt....Accuracy won the day, but was it that Tutt hurried and that is why he missed ?
Tuco, you need to be working for the history channel or discovery channel. Your videos just simply amaze and are more than entertaining, they are absolutely AWESOME
Wow, thank you! Those nice comments keep me going!
They wish they could put out quality content like this.
@@jesupcolt amen
I agree, but wouldn't want him to be exploited by the industry or shot by Baldwin out of jealousy:(
Or the movies as an advisor!!!😂❤
I am over eighty years old and can honestly say that I grew up on westerns and practiced my fast draw with a Ruger single Six. I never came came close to your speed but had a lot of fun trying. The video is excellant. Some camera manipulations were obvious but you showed how the masters of illusion did it. I remember Parade Magazine ran an article featuring Hugh O'Brian showing his draw against alarge timer. I don't recall how fast it was but it was far less than a second. Something like 21/100. I have tried to find a reprint without success. I am a naew viwer of your videos,this the first time I have sent a comment. I have subscribed and am looking forward to enjoying more. Thank you for bringing back some fond memories.
Wow! Thank you so much for the nice and thoughtful comments! Welcome to my channel. I love western movies and still watch them on the Cinevault channel on Tubi all the time. Be sure and hit the "all notifications " on the subscribe bell if you want to see every upcoming video. Otherwise UA-cam will not nessisarily show you them. 😃
I was a big fan of Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp.
I remember the Parade Magazine article but I don't remember the exact time. 🙂
This video is first time I've heard the term "race gun".
Sammy Davis Jr. was an excellent gun handler. He was on at least two episodes of "The Rifleman" and did a demonstration of his skills once his TV show.
I saw some clips of his gun twirling.
Jerry Lewis was supposed to be the best of the bunch. Just kinda hard to take him seriously in that role.....given his comedy career.
Watching your videos is like watching a western. Great cinematography and content. Big fan of your channel!
Thanks! 😃
I was stationed in Fallon, NV, and enjoyed watching the fast-draw competitions. Thank you for clarifying what really is happening.
The real “fakery” is the notion that these kinds of “fast draw duels” ever happened.
It’s almost entirely a fiction created by pulp-novel writers of the time, later picked up by scriptwriters.
Very true. All Hollywood B.S.
They hired Arvo Ojala to teach the actor how to perform a fast draw. Arvo Ojala would also equip the actor with his (patented) holster.
Yes, I've read that as well.
The time and effort you put forth on your videos is greatly appreciated, sincerely thank you!
Do you have a favorite Western movie list? Perhaps your top ten or twenty? Hollywood needs to recruit you for a western, you have such valuable knowledge, your input, would make for a modern Epic!!!
Thanks! Sounds like a cool post or video idea!😃
Great job all around with content and editing, you should have more subscribers and I suspect you will soon. A lot of us grew up recreating the scenes in westerns first with toys and then real guns for fun, I learned my lesson on how dangerous thumb cocking is when my friend let one go off early with the bullet hitting a rock and me getting fragged in the shin feeling like I was shot for a second or two, that was enough of that. I've noticed old SW double action revolvers with an ejector housing added on in some movies I suppose to make it easier for the actors.
That's a good point. I've see a few double actions now and then pretending to be single actions.
I was just going to ask are there any double action Colt Peacemakers or looka likes
Loved every moment of this Tuco. Educational and eye opening. I really didn't know any of this. What a fantastic upload. Thumbs up from me 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for the like!
I wonder if there are some competition holsters for revolvers like the CR Speed Holsters or Alpha-X Double Alpha holsters? Those are for Semi-Autos, but you only need to pull the gun upwards a quarter of an inch to clear the holster, they lock onto the trigger housing.
Yes. Jerry Miculek used a holster like that for his recent world record on 6 steel plates.
Wow, I mean, just wow! You sir are fast and most importantly safe as well.
This was fascinating and you used most of my favorite scenes. Excellent piece of work.
Audie Murphy also had some skills in fast draw.
Hey brother, my dad was an amazing gunsmith. 50 plus years. He had a little gunshop in Ranson WV. When he first started gunsmithing, after he got out of the Marines, he built 2 of the most beautiful single actions. When he purchased them one was a 38 spc and one was a 357. He converted then both to 45 colt. He sent them both back to colt and they color case hardened the frames. He had them matched, with walnut grips. I grew up with those guns. He knew Arvo Ojala and built a two gun rig. When he became ill and was unable to work, he ended up selling them with the rig. I miss those two guns. They weren't modified other than the action job dad did on them. You would have loved those guns. Keep the videos coming brother. PEACE ✌️ p.s. I think I already told you this story. But I miss him more every time I see a single action revolver.
Thanks for sharing that great story about your father. He sounds like he was a great dad.🙂
Charlie Sheen said his brother practice fast draw all the time for the movie Young Guns. Wonder how fast Emilio was.
My wife and I love old westerns and I’ve noticed the very thing you have explained all except the close ups of the longer leads on the race guns. I’m gonna show this to my wife!! Thanks for the video Tuco!!!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!😃
Great video,and explanations 👍👍
Glad you liked it!
Terence Hill was a badass on "My name is nobody" film.
One amusing scene to me was Blazing Saddles, where they shown the gang getting guns shot out, where it's sped up, & you never see Gene Wilder even so much as move, lol. I felt it was a true moment of satire about movie magic.
Ha Ha! That was funny!😃
Yup. So sad Mr Rat didn't include that one. Jim was the fastest of allll tim!
Yea, I fan also, because if you pull the hammer back as your drawing, the gun is then live before it clears the holster & shooting one’s self is not a desired outcome! 😬😬😬
Yes, thumb cocking live ammo is insane, but tempting.
Nice to see you covered some good, old-fashioned Westerns and later exemplified why it couldn't have been possible for duels to happen that way.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for stopping by Kid!
I saw a lot of opportunities to slip in a professional Gun Slinger those camera shots from the side
They do that in fight scenes too, to make punches and kicks look faster.
*Nobody - but NOBODY - could outdraw "The Rifleman", despite his disadvantage when using a long-barreled rifle against a short barreled handgun.*
This was brilliant!! loved it thanks, your channel is quality and you being able to practice fast draw, cowboy shooting, using race guns, your fast triple shots! and sharing all this WoW too cool, keep em coming 👍
Thanks for that nice comment! People like you keep me motivated!
Very well done. The technical details were excellent. The production insights added another level of understanding.
Thanks for the nice comments 😃
Thank you! Very enjoyable!
MATE! Great job on the whole description and editing!!! Very entertaining. Loved it.
Thanks 😃👍
Another great video, very entertaining. I don't know the story behind your saloon, but it looks great! I guess I'll have to look through some of your old videos to get the story.
My recent live stream tells about the saloon.Thanks
Always entertaining! Just got my first Single Action Army Pietta Great western 2 in .357.
Awesome! Pietta is the best!
From what I understand there are only like 3 proven "high noon" style duels from the old west days. One of them of course is Wild Bill lol
And I'll never forget the Wyatt Earp quote "Fast is good but precise is final"
This video was so high quality. Loved it
Thanks! I put more effort into this one!
Damn! I gotta' try that with my flintlocks. I'm thinkin' I can take some jugglin' classes and just try to remember which one's already been fired as they go up and down in my hands. Great video, Tuco. I like's me .45 LC's too.
😃Thanks for watching and the nice comments .
When that target moved I spilled tea on myself. Haha
Well this was a good video. You do a bang up job of educating us. Thanks for the work you put into all your content. It's always obvious that this is your passion and you enjoy sharing it with anyone interested.
You have become my new favorite channel by far!!!!
Well thank you, good to hear that!
Cool video, thank you! I was a little just a tad bit disappointed that I didn’t see you mention anything about my favorite spaghetti western hero, Trinity. Terence Hill and Bud Spence had three or four movies that they were in, they were always either brothers or best friends, and I think that they were sped up a bit, I am assuming just from watching it, but some of the scenes were pretty cool. Old westerns with a huge amount of humor.
Great explanation and demonstration
Thank you AR!
Im so glad i found your channel
What film/show is this at 11:14? That is hands down the coolest draw I think I've ever seen in a pulp Western.
P.S. found your channel because of RDR2 and immediately subscribed. I love your videos, sir. Hats off to you!
Thanks for the nice comments! Welcome aboard!😃
My man you shine like the Sun at high noon. Awesome video, super fun to watch you entertain your viewer. Your demeanor reminds me of Clint E. in his western movies. Keep them rolling. I notices even the planks used on the prop house behind you are cut with the correct era of saw blades; i can tell from the cut marks, I am an old school carpenter...
Thanks for the nice comments 😃 People like you keep me motivated.
Your videos are amazing!! Thank you!
Brother I like your style!
Keep on being free and bringing awesome content!!
Thanks! Will do!
Very interesting, love looking at the behind the scenes of movie magic.
Thanks for tuning in Winchester!
Not only is he the quickest draw in the modern west but his knowledge of Western films is awesome, dude is the complete gunfighter
When it comes to western fast draw from the actual old days did you ever hear the saying that "you take your time in a hurry"..? It kinda makes sense seeing how they didn't have race guns back then.
I really needed this video; I had a great time watching it while enjoying a late-evening snack. :) And those movie scenes at the end! One of them was from "Red River" (1948), a movie I'm currently watching. I love your channel-even though I know nothing about guns, I'm actually learning something from your videos. :) Growing up, I was more into reading Western books than watching movies. Zane Grey was one of my favorite authors as a kid. :) I did enjoy Western movies, but here in Eastern Europe-and especially back in the Soviet Union days-we didn't have access to many Westerns. Maybe a couple of spaghetti Westerns, and that was it. Your videos bring back that nostalgia for me.
That's cool man. Lewis La'Moure is my favorite western author.
@@TUCOtheratt I've never heard of this author before, but thanks for the unintentional recommendation! :) I looked online and picked up a copy of "The Sackett Brand" by this author.
Louis L'amour was a terrific writer of frontier stories, also wrote Hondo, Shalako ( movies). J T Edson was also a prolific writer of westerns and in fact was English.
George G Gilman ( real name Terry Harknett ) too was English he wrote the novelization of a Fistful of Dollars under the pseudonym Frank Chandler, he is best known for writing the EDGE series classed as blood and soil westerns, often with gallows humour and detailed descriptions of what a bullet could really do to a person as in richochet around inside the body bouncing off a bone and ripping up an organ in its trajectory, he also wrote other westerns in a similar vein under psudonyms, Jubal Cade as Charles R Pike, Apache as William M James and a few others the books were often very violent which put off some people, all a matter of taste, in 2015 Amazon Prime aired a pilot show named Edge after the series of books adapted by and directed by Shane Black. I saw it it was very good, it went down well with viewers but for some reason the network decided to keep it on the back burner with options to develop it further in a later time.
Wow I that’s very cool brother! Suggestion, if and when you do an another vivid on Hollywood fast draws, actually show Sammy Davis jr and his fast draw abilities! I do sorta remember he as pretty good with firearms, including twirling too! Rah!
Btw, you’re getting really great at narrating by the way!
Thank ya kindly!😃
Well done! That was super informative!
Glad you enjoyed it!😃
Bill Hickock himself said that accuracy trumped quickness every time.
Tuco.
Another informative video. I feel you bring to life the Old West.
I'm English. Like my late Father. I Love the Western Genre.
So many great people working on them.
I often wondered how fast some actors were in gunfight scenes. I didn't think about Race Guns.
Tuco your videos are brilliant.
Keep well.
By the way.
Although there are too many actors playing Cowboys to mention.
Both myself & my late Father were fans of the actor
Lee Van Cleef.
Great video man
Appreciate it!
What a GREAT video!! I LOVE my Navies and my 7 1/2 inch SAAs!! NOW I understand why I can NEVER draw like they do in the movies!! 🤣
I know its not a true fast draw but your namesake in the Good, Bad and Ugly, "when you gotta shoot shoot don't talk" is a classic line.
Good stuff again Tuco, appreciate your consistently informative and entertaining content, thanks!!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching and the nice comment 😃
... found your channel ... thanks for sharing the tips, the insightful, the historical and hysterical ... the audio/video is fab ... helping me to understand the Colt SAA better ... the more I learn the less I know ... :)
Welcome aboard! Thanks for the nice comment!
love your setup man..
That's great information because we have all watched and loved westerns but I thought Boy ol' Boy they must have done a lot of shooting to get that fast!
I don't envy a LOT about the USA, but the number and type of guns available is one of them. And having you as a neighbour I could learn from. If you ever come to Italy I'd sure like to buy you a drink or ten and listen to you talk about single action guns. My favourite in terms of looks is the Colt Navy 1851. Probably the converted one to fire .38 specials is a bit more "practical" since black powder tends to be messy, but that octagonal barrel just looks good.
I love this guys channel. I’ve learn so much from your videos. Keep it up teacher Tuco haha
Are they could use a stunt double ( TUCO). an have a real fast gun draw
I like to think old west gun fights were really more like Judge Roy Bean's fight with Bad Bob. ;-) Why be on the street when you can be relaxing in the barn loft!!
Fascinating! I am reminded of the scene in The Three Amigos where where the Mexican bandit thinks one of the Amigo's fast draws are just special effects, and finds out the hard way that they are not.
You show yourself fanning. Can you it anything if you do that with live ammo? My understanding is that that is just pure Hollywood and never really happened in the old days.
Liked and subscribed.
Thanks for the sub and nice comment. Fanning very rarely happened if at all in the Old West but it is mentioned from time to time. I can hit man size targets fanning out to 12 yards or so
@@TUCOtheratt very interesting.
What a brilliant narrator with highly interesting content.
You’re a great watch sir .
Thank you kindly!
Greta video. That last scene from shane man
Love all the jingle jangle
What is a "race gun" ? (Also, excellent video, very informative and cool. I'm a huge Western fan.)
I believe the most realistic and natural fast draw in film was Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles :P
The 5th shot in the last Eastwood sequence impresses, as wrist turns off axis with arm, to get the last bad guy on his left. I think in real life that’d be almost impossible.
This was a great video. Thanx for all of the examples and detail in the explanations.
Glad it you enjoyed it!😃
Thanks Mr Tuco very good video
I love watching old westerns, and I love guns, and recently found your channel, this was one of the best vids I've seen in quite awhile. can you explain how the extended notches in a race gun help the speed? I do see the obvious difference in the cut, but not sure how that speeds it up. thanks
Thanks for the nice comment 😃. If you watch my long video How A SAA Race Gun Works it explains everything.
And then there's always the ole, dirty, low-down guttersnipe technique:
when the duel is arranged for a specific time, and place: thereby giving the antagonist opportunity to strategically place multiple shooters in various positions. This was demonstrated in
"Once upon a time in the West" where Frank (Henry Fonda) was setup by his own men.
I always thought that they would speed up the film in the Trinity movies.
Thank you Tuco for this lesson, I was always wondering how do they do it in the movies, now I know......thank you for explaining this illusions...good job!
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching and the nice comment!
That is an amazing vest. Love the hat too.
Thanks!
You could have also mentioned that Arvo Ojala taught a lot of movie stars how to fast draw, and he also made the belts and holsters for a lot of the movie stars.
I think I did mention that he was a trainer but yes there is much more to the story.
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Thanks Tuco! Great share. Let me know when you are ready to bring back and film the next great western. I will volunteer my services as a Gaffer or whatever it takes to make it happen. 👍🏼
That would be cool!😃
Matt in gun smoke opening scene looks like a 22 caliber. That’s just me.
It's a cliche at this point, we're all here to see it no matter how real or unreal it is. Like lightsaber fights in Star Wars (when they were actually well choreographed, lol, fy to Disney). And the best part, both in regards to gunfights and swordfights, is that some of us like Bob Munden or our amazing presenter here manage to become pretty much as good as the editing tricks would have us believe the movie characters are. And that's another thing we're all here for.
Thanks man! And thanks for the sub!
The Light Sabers tho cool looking would actually be a real menace if they were themselves real but mostly to the weilder lol, one extra eighth of an inch and you could have lopped off some of your limbs lol. Imagine holding one and having a sneezing fit lol.
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My only beef(a big one) with Westerns from the '50s/'60s/'70s was that there was no effort to make them factual/reality-based. Sure it was fun to watch the fictitious duels. But if you wanted somebody dead in the Old West, you'd shoot them from the shadows or bushwack them outside of town, etc. Any 'real' duals were generally like in "Apoloosa" where the guns were already drawn and down at your side, bodies turned to the side, not square on. No reason to give your opponent a wider, square-body shot. But what fun is that when you want a Hollywood duel.....
incredible video explains it quite well, I love the movie with Hollywood scenes!!
This was excellent…great info.
Glad you enjoyed it!😃
I like the gun fights in Open Range
Very nice video, only wanted to say that maybe you forgot the Majestic...
Lee Van Cleef . He was truly fast.
New subscriber here I have seen a few of your UA-cam Shorts. I am new to the SAA world I just bout a Uberti .45 Colt. I love it I am curious what you currently shoot with it appears to me to be Ruger Vaquero but not sure. I enjoy what you do watching you in action is pretty awesome, I would like to see a instructive video on how to fan or 3 round speed shoot. Thanks for your great content.
Thanks 😊 You must see my new long video Single Action Revolver race gun line up. And How A SAA Race Gun Works. Everything explained.
Love your videos! I've loved these films since I was a kid in the 60's. Mr. Ojala was of Finnish decent and the "J" is pronounced like a "Y." O-ya-la.
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Very informative video. You keep hitting them out of the ballpark.
I appreciate that! Thank you!
Anyone know where the name comes from? Tuco. Spoiler: I do.
The movie it comes from is actually a trilogy. The character has kind of a love/ hate relationship with the main character.
Clint Eastwood played the Man With No Name in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, and For a Few Dollars More.
Tuco was his friend/enemy.
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Wish I could tell you, but YT rules.
Excellent -- I learned something...
Thanks for the nice comment 😃
Just watched your video and subscribed. Very interesting. I’ve never seen a SAA race gun. Another actor who was an extremely fast draw was Audie Murphy. I watched him making a movie when I was a teen and he was messing around with his draw for a upcoming scene and the man was fast.
Thanks for the sub! Wow that's cool! You watch Audie Murphy in person?
Audie Murphy was outstanding with big guns too (like in WW2).
@@bob456fk6 yeah, at 5’5”, and barely 120lbs, Audie Murphy was a force the Nazis and Italians hadn’t figured on dealing with. Biggest little man in the Army.
You almost never see a gun recoil in those westerns. An obvious giveaway they’re using blanks.
Very interesting episode...Eastwood's infamous 'laughing at my mule' scene, slowed down, it is clear he never would have hit the last two bad dudes...The muzzle is way high....Still, very aawsuum. And I was too young to notice how fake Arness shooting was in the opening scene of Gun Smoke. The famous gun fight I wonder about is Hickock vs Tutt....Accuracy won the day, but was it that Tutt hurried and that is why he missed ?
That shot was reported to be 70 plus yards with a hit heart. With a pistol, there's a degree of luck in that IMO.
The clip at 11:15 looks like he fanned the hammer off the gun belt while holding the gun sideways.
He did! Only time in western movies I have found.
Hugh O'Brian said he practiced the fast draw so that the camera wouldn't have to cut away. He wanted it to look more realistic.
That's interesting. Never heard that before.