Bob Munden - The Fastest Gun Who Ever Lived!
 

Records & Amazing Feats
Bob Munden - The Fastest Gun Who Ever LivedSince he was a teenager, Bob Munden has been setting world Fast Draw records and accomplishing amazing shooting feats for audiences worldwide.

Bob was on OLN's American Shooter program for over 13 years as one of their featured exhibition shooters -- and joined Shooting USA on the Outdoor Channel in 2006. Bob says he loves thinking up new shots to try and enjoys hearing from fans who send him ideas. Of all the special shooting he has done for television, the shot people comment about the most is when he hit a 14"x 24" steel, rectangle target 200 yards away 4 times in a row using a stock, iron-sighted (no scope) Smith & Wesson Model 60, .38-caliber, double-action revolver with a 2" barrel.

Click Here To Read Bob's Listing In The 1971 Guinness Book of World RecordsOn one segment of American Shooter Bob fired 2 shots and hit two separate, 14" x 24" steel targets with .45 caliber bullets so quickly that the shots could not be recorded by a computer timer.

Bob says the most difficult shot he has accomplished, many times, in front of a camera and on DVD and video, is a shot that to his knowledge had never been done before. He splits (not only hits) a playing card in two while it is in the air, using a Colt .45 single-action revolver. The first time Bob accomplished this feat was at the 1986 SASS End of Trail Tournament in Coto de Caza, California, using someone else's gun. It was a .45 single action he had never touched before that belonged to EMF's Boyd Davis.

Click Here To Read Bob's Listing In The 1977 Guinness Book of World RecordsIn 1995, Bob competed in the Bianchi Cup Pistol Tournament (The NRA National Action Shooting Competition) in Columbia, Missouri. Lots of competitors were there, but Bob was the only one who used a Colt .45 single action, with iron sights. The Bianchi Cup was designed for double-action revolvers and semi-automatic pistols - and the events are timed. Though, because he was using a single action, he had to cock and fire his gun for every shot, Bob did well enough in the competition to win money. Many spectators stood there with their mouths open as Bob hit target after target with his cowboy gun. Bob did it for the challenge - and the fun. Bianchi Tournament officials test-fired Bob's ammunition with his gun to make sure Bob was shooting the required 120 power-factor minimum. Bob was using ammo with power factor of 175.Click Here To Read Bob's Listing In The 1980 Guinness Book of World Records Available as of December, 2005, the DVD Bob Munden -- The Collector's Edition includes a bonus feature with footage, with Bob's commentary, of Bob competing in this tournament!

In 2000, using an iron-sighted, Freedom Arms .454 Casull single-action revolver, Bob shot an Alaska Brown Bear on Admiralty Island - and caught it on tape. The video shows Bob, the gun and the bear in the same frame as Bob shoots and hits the bear four times.

Bob holds 18 unbroken World Records in Fast Draw competition that he set with a real, un-gimmicked, stock-weight, Colt .45 single-action revolver. Though the World Fast Draw Association erased the records more than once when they changed regulations or timing equipment, Bob set them again, always using a real gun and a real holster, no light-weight funny guns or gimmicks. In competition with blanks, some of his records are:

Click Here To Read Bob's Listing In The 1976 BBC Record Breakers BookWalk and Draw Level Event: Fastest Time Ever Recorded: .15 hundredths of one second - Arcadia, CA 06/04/1972.

Standing Reaction Balloon Event: Fastest Time Ever Recorded: .16 hundredths of one second - Norwalk, CA 01/21/1973.

Total of Five Separate Shots, Standing Reaction Balloons: 1 and .06 hundredths of one second - Arizona State Championships, 1966.

Self-Start: Fastest Time: .0175 hundredths of one second - Guinness Book of World Records Museum, New York, 1976. This time is less than one half, of one half, of one tenth, of one second. Bob has been recognized by the Guinness Book as: "Fastest Gun" "Quickest Draw" and "The Fastest Man With A Gun Ever Alive."


Click Here To Read Bob's Listing In Russ Miller's Oddly Enough BookUsing live ammunition, Bob holds the record for hitting a 2' x 4' steel, rectangle target 21' away in .21 hundredths of one second.

Bob isn't the only one in his family who has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. In the 1970s', Becky Munden was listed for her Fast Draw Record of .27 hundredths of one second for Standing Reaction Balloons.

Bob's brother, CW4 Philip G. Munden, U.S. Army, Aviation (retired), holds 5 world records he set as a member of the U.S. Army's Golden Click Here To Read Bob's Listing In The 1984 Giant Book of Sports Questions and AnswersKnights sky-diving team. Individually, Phil holds a parachuting record for making 43 consecutive, dead-center landings at night on a 10 cm (3.9") disk.

Bob and Phil's world records last appeared in the same edition of the Guinness Book in 1980.

If you look at recent editions of the Guinness Book of World Records, you will notice that most shooting records are no longer listed, including those set by Annie Oakley, Ed McGivern, Tom Frye and Bob Munden.


A Note From Bob About The Guinness Book of Records

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"In 1981, the year most shooting records disappeared from the Guinness Book, I called David Boehm of the Sterling Publishing Company and asked why. He told me that there is a committee that approves books to be used in school libraries across the nation. The committee informed Mr. Boehm that it would only approve the Guinness Book for continued use as a reference book in school libraries if gun records were removed. To protect the Guinness Book from a black list, that's what the publishing company felt it had to do. If you look at recent editions of the Guinness Book of World Records, you will notice that most gun records are no longer listed, including those set by Annie Oakley, Ed McGivern, Tom Frye and myself. It is a shame that a small group of people on that education committee, people who probably grew up in cities away from the shooting sports millions of Americans and citizens of many other nations appreciate and enjoy, can have the power to effectively erase history."
-- Bob Munden
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