Fast Draw show Episode 31 Bob Mernickle Gunfighter

20 August, 2008 (03:46) | Fast Draw, Fast Draw Talk Show, Gunfighter

Fast Draw Rig by Bob Mernickle

Alamo Fast Draw Episode 31 Bob Mernickel
Lledslinger: Well I'm going to get on with the show. Hello Bob Mernickel how're you doing tonight?
Bob Mernickel: I'm doing great how are you doing?
Lledslinger: Bob I've been waiting while to get you on the show and we finally got something lined up and I'm glad to have you here.
Bob Mernickel: I appreciate that, it was a little bit coming, you have asked me a number of occasions. It's just my schedule is so tight is just incredible. I'm really glad to be here for you.
Lledslinger: That's why we didn't own father's day because that seemed to be the only one that worked out for you and that was fine with me I like to stay home and do what I want to own Father's Day and my birthday and I don't always get to do that.
Bob Mernickel: Yeah well when I'm done here my wife's taken me out for dinner, so that will work.
Lledslinger: I think the first question I was starting out with tonight, is just the usual question I start out with and that is how did you get into fast draw?
Bob Mernickel: Well I actually worked back in the early seventies no actually late sixties I should say. I worked in a shake and shingle mill and Canada up and the British Columbia area and a friend of mine that I hung with in the mill coax me into coming out and trying it. In those days I also used to drag race so I had to make a decision between going to take a look in a fast draw shoot are going to a drag race event that I already did. So it took me awhile to get me shooting but the night that I started is it never ended after that, I've been here every sense.
Lledslinger: Sounds like we have something else in common I like drag racing to.
Bob Mernickel: I put fast draw right up there with drag racing because it's you against the clock and it's the same thing with drag racing. I found it extremely exuberant if you will.
Jim Martin: What kind of cars did you race?
Bob Mernickel: I had a few of them, I had a 66 Fairlane, I used to run a F stocker that ran about a 13 flat. I was a door slammer guy and I had a lot of fun with that. I had a 69 428 Cobre Jet Mustang that I was pushing solid twelves that was basically stopped, it was a pretty nice car. I wish I had it to day.
Blackbird: bob are you talking to us from Canada right now?
Bob Mernickel: No I'm not, I live in Nevada just outside Reno we moved here about six years ago approximately. We moved our company and as one of the gun writers said we moved our company families and beanie babies!
Blackbird: I guess you must have moved into an area that is of little friendlier toward gun related sports.
Bob Mernickel: You know it is but I'll tell you coming from Canada and British Columbia in general and living here there's a lot of differences but there's a lot of similarities to. The fallacy is that you can not only gun and Canada and that's exactly what it is is a fallacy. You just have to go through a lot more paperwork in order to get it then say here in the state of Nevada. But equally sad you go through just as much paperwork in the state of California an issue due Canada.
Blackbird: I was saying that you sent me a very beautiful catalog of generously cut western style holsters and I was very impressed, very favorably impressed if anything they were better than the very fine pictures I've seen in the gun magazines of your work. One thing that disturbs me a little bit it seemed like all the guns that were in the holsters were not real guns they were ripped the type guns. That would be a Canadian holster catalog.
Bob Mernickel: Oh yeah you're right that was an old catalog and if you have a copy of that I think you probably should hang onto it, it might even be worth a few dollars one day. When I put my very first catalog together Bryan who is the guy that help me put it together and actually still does all my catalog work to this very day. If you've ever been on our website as well as all our new catalogs have all been put together by him he does a fabulous job. No going back to what you were talking about on the catalog yes in the early days in Canada it was difficult for me to acquire guns for the catalog at the spur of the moment when I needed them. At the same time I dealt with a company that handled what we call aluminum dummy guns in the early catalog and that so we got the message out.

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