Alamo Fast Draw Episode 29 Frank Lawton

18 August, 2008 (22:03) | Uncategorized

Alamo Fast Draw Episode 28 Frank Lawton
LLedslinger: The first thing I want to ask you is what got you interested and fast draw.
Frank Lawton: My wife and I were visiting a casino in Deadwood and a couple of the guy's that worked in the casino asked me about it, would you like to try it? I said sure I'd like to try it someday, and they said how about right now. If 10:00 PM where the heck are you gonna do this and he said at my house. So he took us up to his house, he showed me the targets and the wax bullets and we started to shoot, that's what got me very interested in it. The fact that you could shoot it in your garage in your barn or whatever the case may be.
Lledslinger: That's what I like about it to, if I feel like shooting I just walk into the garage or the shop and get started.
Frank Lawton: Instead of packing a whole bunch of stuff and leave the house you can practice for 15 minutes or you can practice for 15 hours except you.
Lledslinger: Lets go to the Hollywood Fast Draw, you wanted to talk about the Hollywood Fast Draw and I want to hear more about it.
Frank Lawton: Alright well about a year ago as you know World Fast Draw has developed into high speed high-tech type drawing and about a year ago we started to think about going back to basics. Back when the fast draw begin which is back in the fifties all those TV shows with their stars, they'll get together and had a shoot and they were using the old Hollywood fast draw or the Hollywood style holsters so we figured let's go back to basics. Giving our shooters the opportunity to shoot more than just one type or one style of shooting and is taken off and it's well received. It's basically using the old style Hollywood fast draw rigs and standard 45s and of course we do have two styles of shooting index and the elimination and we have 6 to 8 different targets. So it gives you a variety of targets to shooting at and against the host the opportunity to design a contest that would be favorable to the area that the most people would like. Big issue tremendous amount of flexibility and it's a lot of fun.
Lledslinger: I haven't tried the Hollywood fast draw but basically which all are doing is the same as some of the shooting we've been doing down here and we're trying to promote fast draw in general. I figured when I started the show I talk about all the different fast draw organizations.
Wes Flowers: Question please? Frank how do you shoot it, do you shoot it almost like Cowboy Fast Draw do you use almost any holster and gun and what ever.
Frank Lawton: Well it's similar to your Cowboy Fast Draw we do allow the Hollywood style holster which CFDA does not. That would be allowed its 45s the same and of course we have index and elimination plus the 6 to 8 different targets that you can use. And of course the distance goes from 5 to 21 feet . So you as a host could design a contest that most of the shooters like in your area.
Wes Flowers: good OK I just wondered about that. I haven't had a chance to shoot Hollywood Fast Draw because of my problems. But since it came out I haven't had a chance to shoot it and I just want to know of what it really consist of.
Dave Livingston: I had a request from one of the people at Durango do have a Hollywood Fast Draw at Durango on Friday when we have our celebrity contest and I told me as we could do that 'cause you're going to have time. We start the celebrity WFDA contest at one and so it will go a couple of hours and then we can have the Hollywood Fast Draw from 3:00 on. There's a guy up their longtime SASS shooter in fact he used to be on the board of directors in the past and he shoots a 45 colt, he shoots out of a SASS holster. He wanted to try Hollywood Fast Draw and I said yes we can do that.
Frank Lawton: Also back about a year ago we started to take a look at our world champions in the WFDA. When you start talking to them you find out that they began shooting 12 13 14 years old and they progressed so far that they're on the top. So I started to look at the different children that are shooting in our sport and I figured well we should come up with something special for them to recognize them and help them come along. The future of our sport is the youth and if they're not getting the education about how we do it in what we do with firearms then we have a problem. So we came up with Billy the Kid and just this past weekend no not this week the weekend before in Deadwood we recognized the Billy the Kid world champions for the first time. Which was well received.

If any of you Gunfighters would like to hear more of this interveiw you can listen to episode 29 on the audio player(red) on the right side of this page. If you would like to join in the show live or listen live to the Alamo Fast Draw show or call 1-724-444-7444 show#16056. Whether you are a gunfighter or not its a fun show.

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