vlog archive: Man claims he's the fastest gunslinger who ever lived
Bob Munden said he's the fastest gunslinger who ever lived — and had proof to back it up.
Munden was named "Fastest Man with a Gun Who Ever Lived" by the Guinness World Records, with which he had at least 18 records at the time of his death in 2012.
The Missouri man put on a show for the vlog cameras in 1992 when he was in Des Moines for a shooting demonstration. We clocked his quick-draw skills at less than two-tenths of a second as he hit a styrofoam cup at close range. Another show of speed and accuracy saw Munden draw and fire two shots at balloons set about 10 feet apart in under one second.
Munden, who surely could've held his own in an Old West-style gunfight, said those shootouts are more fiction than reality.
"There's not one incident recorded in history with two men, premeditated, faced off and drew guns at each other," he said. "That is the creation of the movie business for our entertainment. It never really happened."
Even if it did, Munden said you wouldn't have found him fighting in the streets.
"I would've been a bartender," he said. "That's where the money was."
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