Hypothetical "Hollywood" type situation purely for fun!

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To say it can't be done....just makes me want to do it. If you take it slow, and start on one target, you can eventually reprogram your brain. .22 Units for 1911's, or using similar softair guns might be another, safer way to start. First, you learn to shoot one gun, strong handed, one handed. Then learn to shoot the same gun with your weak hand, one handed. Now get to the point where you can "point shoot" with your strong hand. When taking up both guns, just let your instinct "point shoot" with the strong hand, and focust your brain on the weak hand. The strong hand will probably still "point" as it has been taught, but now you are working on the less practiced side of the brain, and forcing it to work, also. There is a bit of "override" going on in the brain for all of this. After you master two hands on one target, and it all gets too easy, then you take on multiple targets, with a single gun on each! :evil::neener::banghead::cuss:
 
It'd have to be 1911's, 'Punisher' and 'Last Man Standing' style. I have messed around with a single six and a Beretta target .22 before, it was fun, but silly. Especially having a single action six shooter and a semi-automatic! Haha.
 
I just want to be able to shoot and kill four men with a single action revolver, just like Clint Eastwood in Fist full of Dollars..........all while telling jokes..:D before they are even able to pull their guns.......too cool
 
It did present itself not to long ago when I bought my 1911. My buddy brought his to compare. I tried it slow and it was uncontrolable.
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Yea, I'm glad you tried it out slow. I think I would shoot myself in the arm or shoot my hand off, or opposite gun out of my hand pretty easily trying to rapid fire two 1911's. And I'm used to shooting them with 230gr +P and I'm not a small guy.

I think it can be done like you said, fairly slow and making sure to keep your hands far apart. Anything else is pretty risky in my opinion and not worth losing function of several digits over.
 
if i was actually trying to hit something/anything....i'd go with a five seven or a race gun like STI Edge.

for sure comedic value SW 500 revolvers (4").
 
Dual wielding two pistols?! That my friend is over kill and a picture of excessive over the top firepower. That being said, you might as well go to the extreme! So I would choose 2 .50 Desert Eagle, gold plated of course! Then spend a night in the hospital to heal my broken wrists. :)
 
I'd go for a pair of S&W revolvers, either K or N frame .357 Magnums or perhaps a pair of 1917 revolvers. Reloading might be difficult with a revolver in each hand, but it would look cool.

For the vintage nostalgia feeling, how about a pair of S&W M&Ps with two inch barrels?
 
For two 1911's, try this: Dump both magazines, slides locked open. Place the gun used in the weak hand, top of the slide down, into the crook of your strong hand's elbow. That will place the butt up, staring right at you. Right next to it will be the open mag well of strong hand gun. Grab two magazines from the aforementioned double-double pouch (I use a Galco DMC for a Glock 21, and stretch the pockets a bit to hold 2x2 .45 1911 mags), and while bringing them up to the two 1911's (one braced in the crook of the elbow, the other in stronghand), splay the mags slightly apart from each other in the hand, so that one can more easily be put into the strong hand gun first, then charge the gun in the crook. Regrasp the gun-in-elbow with the weak hand, bring forward (aimed at target), then release both slides (left hand is done with the trigger finger on the slide release), and proceed. In a real gunfight, you'd probably never want to shoot "dry", but that is a lot of impossible memory stuff to remember how many shots for two guns, and whether you have an almost empty gun, especially if firing random shots with each gun. For "two gun fun", shooting till empty tells you the guns are now empty and "safe", locked open (for visual inspection, too), and then you can do the cool two gun "charge" of the slides at the same time. I've worked on this "double gun reloading" for awhile, and this is one of the safest ways to do it, keeping muzzles away and down range, and not fooling with partially charged guns, etc. The guns are locked open, empty, and "safe" until charged. If you can work out a better or safer way, let me know. It should work with MOST semi-autos with controls similar to the 1911.
 
I was going to say sliding down a railing with two Toks blazing, but DougDubya beat me to it. I would not go with the toothpick though, that's just a disaster waiting to happen.

Second place might be handing someone a pair of revolvers like you're surrendering, then flipping them around and blowing them away like in Outlaw Josie Wales, the greatest Western ever.

Third place would be shooting at marauding bikers from the back of a pickup truck with a submachine gun like in the end of Cobra.
 
Doesn't the Duke rock with a .45 Colt and a 30-30 lever action at some point in that movie as well??



As for me I like the idea of 2x S&W TR8s, with piles of moon clips all over the place, rockin' reloads left and right.. Someone needs to make that movie!
 
A pair of compensated, 6" or 7" 1911s, specially built to be a left- and right-handed set.

SDM, care to elaborate on this? I've been doing some work on the subject, and with some quirks of my eyes (I tend to look at everything sideways, my peripheral vision is actually better at around a 15- to 30-degree angle-off than straight ahead) and my peculiar neurology some of the LEOs I shoot with think I might have a crack at creating the illusion of a "simultaneous multi-target engagement", even though it's really just a faster transition from one eye/hand/iron "assembly" to the other.
 
I've actually done it, but I cheat and use lasers. It was a CCF-framed Glock 17L and a Kel-Tec PLR-16 in this case, the two lightest-recoiling high-cap weapons that I own. Not really any groups that anybody would be proud of, but peppering center mass on a human silhouette is better than I expected.
 
Of course it's Hollywood, but Kevin Costner in "Silverado" doing a quick draw, and shooting two guys simultaneously outside the saloon at about at 30 degree angle. Diamondback6, with your vision, you could probably practice something like this, using your peripheral. I thought about trying to find a gravel pit, or some safe place, where I could practice a panoramic shooting thing like that, starting with doing it by "feel" with my strong hand (pointshooting), and actually aiming with the weak hand, starting out at 3-5 yards, and working my way out to 7-10 yards. Once I get indexed in my mind with my strong hand, that hand becomes pretty natural to pointshoot. With blanks, and guys payed to fall down right when you fire, "Silverado" makes it look pretty easy! But wouldn't be just the cat's aZZ to really be able to take on two targets at the same time? Long slide 1911's would probably be easier to align, once you got used to handling them, just as snubnose guns might be more of a challenge. Longslides are pretty expensive, though. Revolvers are o.k. if you don't mind having only 6-8 shots, but trying to reload two revolvers boggles my mind.....I have the 1911's figured out, and that is tricky enough. Show me double revolver reloading...:)
 
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