Is This Old Gunslinger Theory Actually True? 🔫🤔

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]He claimed to be able to take a poker chip or a silver dollar, put it on his wrist, and turn it. Before that hit the ground, he could draw a single action revolver and fire up five shots.

[00:00:08]>> To test this myth, they challenged an expert gunslinger to fire five shots before the silver dollar hit the ground.

[00:00:14]>> Here we go. In 3 2 1.

[00:00:17]>> The replay shows that only one cap fired, even though he reccocked many times and still didn't get the silver dollar.

[00:00:24]>> Highspeed says that if all the shots had fired, we would have gotten three off before the silver dollar hit the ground.

[00:00:29]Next, they used period accurate guns to see if a bullet could punch a clean hole through a silver dollar.

[00:00:34]>> Fire in the hole. 3 2 1. It tried really, really hard.

[00:00:39]>> So, gunslinger myths, where do we stand?

[00:00:40]>> Quick draw myth is totally busted. You can't draw your weapon and tar off five shots or soella hits the