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Dagga Boy
02-23-2016, 12:29 AM
When guys like Sammy Davis Junior would do bits like this. Some of my favorite music are the old cowboy ballads, and this is simply cool.

http://youtu.be/L6aNzFYHyz8
LOKNLOD
02-23-2016, 12:38 AM
That's awesome. Had no clue Sammy could do that.
Dagga Boy
02-23-2016, 12:54 AM
Sammy Davis Junior and much of the Rat Pack era guys were into Fast Draw heavily. Imagine a Hollywood where guns were cool. Here is Sammy on the Rifleman....which was one of my favorite shows.

http://youtu.be/ddFqDq8LyKI
LOKNLOD
02-23-2016, 01:01 AM
Sammy Davis Junior and much of the Brat Pack were into Fast Draw heavily. Imagine a Hollywood where guns were cool. Here is Sammy on the Rifleman....which was one of my favorite shows.

http://youtu.be/ddFqDq8LyKI

You gotta fix that typo, it's just ain't right to call them the Brat Pack. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brat_Pack_(actors))
Dagga Boy
02-23-2016, 01:14 AM
You gotta fix that typo, it's just ain't right to call them the Brat Pack. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brat_Pack_(actors))

Talk about epic "should not type on NyQuil". Thanks for the catch.
Trooper224
02-23-2016, 02:37 AM
I remember that. Sammy was the epitome of cool and he's doing that with a 7.5 inch barreled smoke wagon, not one of those candy ass 4.75 inch jobs. I'm begining to think I grew up in a foreign country.
voodoo_man
02-23-2016, 08:05 AM
...Sammy...Who?

*ducks*
LittleLebowski
02-23-2016, 08:39 AM
I know a retired Army Colonel who had to help transport Sammy's six shooters through parts of Vietnam because Sammy wanted to put on an exhibition with them. Pretty damn cool.
Chance
02-23-2016, 11:46 AM
They don't make them like that anymore. Now we have this guy.

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Hambo
02-23-2016, 11:57 AM
Sammy even said, "press the trigger." :cool:
SeriousStudent
02-23-2016, 08:47 PM
Very cool. I did not know that Sammy was that heavily into firearms.

I have a framed print of Sammy, Frank, Dean and Joey in my game room. It would have been quite enjoyable to have them over for whiskey, cigars and poker.
Drang
02-23-2016, 10:01 PM
Worked it into at least one movie he made.

ISTR that Mel Torme had a respectable collection of SAAs, too.
Dagga Boy
02-23-2016, 10:19 PM
Very cool. I did not know that Sammy was that heavily into firearms.

I have a framed print of Sammy, Frank, Dean and Joey in my game room. It would have been quite enjoyable to have them over for whiskey, cigars and poker.

And Fast Draw....they were all into it.

Believe it or not.....Jerry Lewis was one of the fastest guys out there in his day. Very different Hollywood.
Jim Watson
02-23-2016, 10:34 PM
I bet he didn't mind his audience owning guns, either.
Unlike so many actors today who will pop blanks for the camera and play patty cake with the SugarBrady Bunch.
Dagga Boy
02-23-2016, 11:35 PM
...Sammy...Who?

*ducks*

Ban Hammer........you need to get some serious time set aside on the DVD player for some Americanization.
voodoo_man
02-23-2016, 11:42 PM
Ban Hammer........you need to get some serious time set aside on the DVD player for some Americanization.

...what's a DVD player?

damn old timers.
1slow
02-23-2016, 11:49 PM
I seem to remember an old article in a gun or knife magazine that pictured Sammy Davis Jr.with a fast draw rig and a Nelson Cooper Bowie Knife.
HCM
02-23-2016, 11:50 PM
...what's a DVD player?

damn old timers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dpegG4KvW4
LSP552
02-23-2016, 11:54 PM
...what's a DVD player?

damn old timers.

It's like a Betamax......only newer..:D
Dagga Boy
02-24-2016, 12:15 AM
It's like a Betamax......only newer..:D

Yeah......I was the only kid who's dad bought the Betamax instead of VHS. But I do think we were the first in the neighborhood with a color TV and we also had the first microwave oven (which was thanks to mom)....so they got it right once in awhile.
Dagga Boy
02-24-2016, 12:16 AM
...what's a DVD player?

damn old timers.

It's what you watch old cowboy shows on......damn kids.
WobblyPossum
02-24-2016, 02:42 PM
That's really cool. I had no idea firearms used to be that accepted in Hollywood. I knew Steve McQueen was into guns but that Sammy Davis Jr. video is great.

Nowadays, it's like I have to be content with knowing all my favorite actors hate everything I stand for [emoji22]


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Wendell
02-26-2016, 04:16 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrJjsn0gs8o
Hambo
02-26-2016, 06:36 PM
And Fast Draw....they were all into it.

Believe it or not.....Jerry Lewis was one of the fastest guys out there in his day. Very different Hollywood.

I saw him do it on TV once and here's a video of his nightclub act.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7GZmxw21EA
SAWBONES
02-26-2016, 07:23 PM
Sammy was quite a hoofer, especially tap.

A lot of those old guys had Vaudevillian roots, and could dance, sing and tumble as well as act.
Dagga Boy
02-26-2016, 08:12 PM
Sammy was quite a hoofer, especially tap.

A lot of those old guys had Vaudevillian roots, and could dance, sing and tumble as well as act.

And, unlike Brownie, doesn't need a helmet to turn and shoot or shoot between his legs.
Jeep
02-27-2016, 04:07 PM
And, unlike Brownie, doesn't need a helmet to turn and shoot or shoot between his legs.

Did you ever hear his line when someone (who was talking about golf) asked him "What's your handicap?" Davis' response "I'm a one-eyed, black, Jew." He could be an extremely funny guy.