Booking Stage Shows and Live Ammunition Exhibitions

The Spirit of the Old West and Fast Draw have always appealed to the public.

Bob and Becky Munden have performed their stage show all over the United States, including Alaska. They have taken their cowboy six-guns into New York City, to school assemblies, radio stations and television studios across the nation, as well as to gun-wary places like London, England and Auckland, New Zealand.

Because they use only blank ammunition in the stage show, indoors or out Bob and Becky safely perform at many different venues such as car dealerships, sport shows, conventions, fairs, amusement parks, shopping malls and at corporate and private events. For audiences of all types, the show is fascinating and fun.

The show is a great draw for car dealerships, especially, because Bob and Becky's appearances attract lots of spectators to the lot, and those spectators become buyers. Top weekends for sales can exceed 50 cars when a dealership follows seasoned, and specific, advertising advice from Bob to ensure effective promotion of the shows.

Bob says, "Our job is to get people there. We arrive early, in time to do radio and TV coverage. The spectators enjoy the show and afterward, can come up and look at our $100,000 gun display and ask questions. While they are on the property having a good time, sales associates introduce them to vehicles on the lot. Inevitably, in this relaxed environment, people buy cars."

All the Mundens require to set up their stage for out-door performances is a flat-bed truck, but as they are with indoor shows, the Mundens can work with the sponsor to set up an uncomplicated venue.

The Mundens' stage show is not a kids' show, although kids really enjoy it too and are some of Bob and Becky's best fans. Bob and Becky talk about the history of Fast Draw, how it was invented by movie studios and talk about actual movie stars who have tried Fast Draw. They use a 1-second, fast-draw timer to introduce the speed of professional Fast Draw, and amaze audiences by demonstrating something that has been called, "The Fastest Thing a Human Does."

During the show, Bob, who holds 18 world records in
speed shooting, or fast draw, shoots balloon targets about 8 feet away, which break when hit with unburned powder from the blank ammunition. His dramatic, double-balloon shot is so fast, it sounds like he fired only one shot.

At safe venues such as at gun clubs or large, private areas with safe back-stops, Bob and Becky Munden begin their live ammunition exhibition by demonstrating their prowess with fast draw, as they do in their stage show, using blank ammunition.

Then they move on to real bullets and Bob, who is very well known for his incredible exhibition shooting on television, entertains the crowd by shooting fast draw with
live ammunition. This is extremely dangerous for him and Bob always warns the audience not to Fast Draw with real bullets. He emphasizes the importance of the precautions he takes as a professional, including his use of a bullet-deflector plate attached to the holster, and explains that even that cannot guarantee his safety should he make a mistake.

Bob shoots rapid-fire shots with accuracy and does incredible, seemingly impossible shots like hitting playing cards on edge first vertically and then horizontally with his Colt Single Action revolvers and full-charge .45 caliber bullets that are loaded to travel at 782 feet per second.

Bob always includes a long-distance shot using a 2" barrel Derringer to hit a target 30 yards away. When Bob picks up a rifle and draws a happy face on a target, Becky critiques his accuracy. Bob then challenges her to do better which results in a display of her skills with a rifle. Next, they pick up shotguns, and Bob shows that he is also more than proficient with the double barrel, pump or semi auto, by busting fun aerial targets like oranges, cookies, candy, eggs, etc. This is a crowd favorite.

Bob will hand Becky a .45 ACP semi-automatic pistol and she will shoot a target 50 yards away, or duplicate an over-the shoulder rifle shot made famous by Annie Oakley, and then shoot with Bob for a great finale. Bob sets up empty shot shells on their target board for Becky to shoot with her rifle while he shoots them again with his shotgun, in the air, wherever they fly. This is an exciting climax.

Bob and Becky Munden's live ammunition show is good family entertainment that harkens back to exhibition shooters of the past like Annie Oakley, the great Topperweins exhibition team of the early 1900's and Tom Frye.

Sometimes, Bob will do something completely unpracticed and unplanned. In 1986 at the SASS End of Trail World Championships of Cowboy Action Shooting in Coto de Caza, California, Bob borrowed a .45 single-action (a Dakota, no longer made,) from EMF Co. Inc. owner Boyd Davis, and split a playing card in flight.

Of course the live ammunition show has to be held at a gun range where this type of shooting can be done safely, but it is perfect for a shooting club, firearms school or corporate event on private land to book as a special attraction.

To inquire about booking Bob and Becky Munden's stage show or live ammunition shooting exhibition for your event, contact:

Bob & Becky Munden
Munden Enterprises, Inc.
1621 Sampson St
Butte, MT 59701-3705
USA

Phone: (406) 494-2833
Fax: (406) 494-6810
 You may also contact Munden Enterprises online.