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The Master of Triggernometry
If anyone qualifies to be called a master of fast and fancy shooting, it has to be Ed McGivern. In fact, you can say he wrote the book on the subject. BY JOEL J. HUTCHCROFT
EXHIBITION SHOOTER JOE BOWMAN (OF WHOM I was a fan) was known to have he had a PhD in "triggernometry". Ed McGivern could have made the same claim. He was no doubt a master of the subject.
At the height of his career, McGivern could break five clay balls, thrown into the air simultaneously, before they hit the ground; hit a tin can hand-thrown 20 feet into the air five times before it touched the ground; drive a tack or nail into wood by shooting it; shoot the pips out of playing cards at 18 feet; split a playing card edge on; "draw" a portrait of a person on sheet metal with bullet holes; write words in script or block letters the same way; and shoot a dime on the fly. More amazingly, he did those feats with a handgun - or a pair of handguns, shooting simultaneously or one at a time. He could shoot accurately holding a revolver behind his back, between his legs, upside down, or sighting from a mirror. And he is known as one of the fastest handgunners of all time.
It's been said that McGivern could shoot so fast that timing machines would malfunction in attempting to record his speed. He set a Guinness World Record for "the greatest rapid-fire feat" in 1932 by emptying two revolvers in less than two seconds. He set another record in 1934 by firing five shots from a double-action revolver in 2/5 second, putting all five shots into a group that fit inside the area of a regular playing card. The distance was 15 feet and he was 60 years old at the time. (More about his favorite guns in moment.).
Ed McGivern was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1874 and got his first big-bore revolver in the early 1890s. It was a .41-caliber Colt, but the exact model is not known. Later, he moved to Butte, Montana, and it was during this period that he witnessed the famous husband and wife team of Ad and Plinky Topperwein put on a shooting exhibition. During that performance, the Topperweins performed aerial shooting feats and picture drawing with rifles. Doing so, as the story goes, inspired McGivern to learn how to do the same kind of fast and accurate shooting - but using handguns instead.
McGivern devoted the rest of his life to developing his extraordinary shooting skills and writing the book (Ed McGivern's Book of Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting) that made him famous. All the while, he acknowledged that anyone could do what he did if they put in the time required to practice (SHOOTING TIMES, February 2017).
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