......go to Amazon or some other book seller and buy a book titled, Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting, by Ed McGivern. .........Then you can learn techniques from a gentleman who could have someone flip washers or similar coin-sized disks up in the air and hit them, usually firing a S&W K-frame revolver using the double-action mode exclusively.....
Aha! Someone already suggested I buy that book, and now I know who it must have been!!!
Yes, I have it, one of the newer editions - the type is easy to read, but they did a poor job of reproducing the photographs.
I "cheated" though - started with chapter 10, "Shooting Revolvers Double Action, Combining Accuracy with Speed". I really need to take the time of just reading the book through from the beginning.
I'm not going to even start to type what I think about all this - will just copy from a web page:
World Record Still Stands
McGivern's Guinness world record for "The greatest rapid-fire feat," set on August 20, 1932 at the Lead Club Range in South Dakota, still stands. This feat consisted of "firing two times from 15 feet five shots which could be covered by a silver half-dollar piece in .45 of a second."
To name just a few more:
McGivern could break six simultaneously hand thrown clay pigeons (standard trap targets) in the air before they hit the ground.
He could hit a tin can hand thrown 20 feet in the air six times before it hit the ground.
He could shoot-drive a tack or nail into wood.
He could shoot the spots out of playing cards, or even split a playing card edge on.
McGivern could hit a dime on the fly.
All of these executed with either right or left hand, using a factory Smith & Wesson M&P double action revolver, purportedly his favorite handgun.
Thanks again for recommending the book. I love the way you make my life miserable!
(I tried, and failed, to find an old video of his shooting; maybe I'll find one eventually.... The best I could find was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u97RJQYuiBA but it doesn't have video of Ed actually shooting.)