Alamo Fast Draw

Wes Flowers interveiw:
LLedslinger: How did you get stared in fast draw.
Wes Flowers: I was raised in Bisbee Arizona and not I had a good friend we went to school together were still good friends his name is Jerry Magee and we get a school well I got out of school earlier than he did. I went back and got my GED by the way but anyway Jerry and I got out of school and we were tryng to get on at a big mining company in Bisbee. He get on and I didn't so I went to Phoenix and I sold a few vacuum cleaners Kirby vacuum cleaners. This was back in the sixties OK I sold a few vacuum cleaners that there and decided I didn like that so I decided to go to California to see if I get a job out there because there wasn't really anything else going on. I got a job at a gas station out there and then one of the catering trucks you know what they call a roach coach like that. You know what they are.
LLedslinger: yes
Wes Flowers: A neat catering company so anyway a guy named Jerry Mckelvey was driving a truck and we got to talk and he had kinfolk in Bisbee who I knew so we're almost like brothers when we met each other as I knew all his kinfolk. So he got me a job driving a catering truck in Riverside California. One day I was driving by, one of my stops was a car lot and I pulled into the car lot and here were these two guys doing a fast draw show and this is 1962. Oh I was a little bitty kid! In 1962 I was driving by a car lot and I pulled in their and two guys were standing out there one of the guy's names Stan Sweet and the other guy I won't name, we don't talk about him OK, so you know who I'm talking about. So anyway the one guy was really snotty and he wouldn't talk to me, Stan Sweet turns around to me and says oh man here's my guns and here's my holsters and this is what we do. Well just about two weeks before that I had won a Showdown Fast Draw in Riverdale California they had a platform out there and we were using 22 Blanks and Plexiglas between us and there was no timer it was the old 6 inch hand rule and you had to draw against each other. The judges would tell if you were level and beat the guy, well I bet everybody there using a single 6 22 so I was into fast draw before I got into fast draw. So Stan Sweet you know was really nice and we have been friends every sense that day. He showed me all of his guns and I was getting ready to move back to Bisbee at the time. So he said we were having a contest in Tombstone Arizona in October so this was like about August OK and I was moving back the next month. I said OK I'll come, he said you don't have to have a gun we will find someone that has a holster that will fit you. We'll loan it to you and everything, I said OK fine. I almost lost my job because I stayed there too long, really because I was watching their show. I came back to Bisbee that October I went over to what they call HellDorado days that was the first contest I ever shot in was in 1962. A guy named Joe Carwell loaned my his holster and Sam loaned me a gun and everybody was just really nice. I thought this is really neat this is really nice so I started shooting fast draw at that time I did not know a lot about it except what I had learned at that one contest and then I turned around and I went back to Bisbee and started a fast draw club called the Bisbee Gun Hawks because I met Papy Al Brian I met Hank Mcgredy I met all kinds of people from California. They had the Valley Gunhawks out there so I made mine the Bisbee Gunhawks after them. I get that club started their and then I started working on guns I ruined a lot of guns in my life OK I really did trying to figure out how to fix guns and stuff 'cause we had no gunsmith in Bisbee that knew what he was doing as far as single action goes. I got 2 clubs going I got the Bisbee Gunhawks going and then I started a club up in Baghdad called the Triple H Gunfighters. Together we have over 34 shooters with those two club.

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