By Ed McGivern,another ded hero.
My brother just gave it to me.
It's the anniversary edition,not an original.
Starts off good,appears to be another keeper.
Jack

I found a copy and gave it to my dad after reading it. Don't even remember where I got it, maybe a used bookstore or garage sale.

A little dry reading, but quite an impressive shooter.

Mike
It is dry reading but gosh what a shooter! What i like most about the book is that McGivern modified guns every way he coould think of and then went back to stock firearms. For the most part he did not need modifications. His shooting from the running boards of cars and long range shooting is interesting.

Mike
It is dry reading but gosh what a shooter! What i like most about the book is that McGivern modified guns every way he coould think of and then went back to stock firearms. For the most part he did not need modifications. His shooting from the running boards of cars and long range shooting is interesting.

Well, Mr. iorg, took the words right out of my mouth, particularly the "dry reading but gosh what a shooter". I wish they had more video of his shooting demostrations. From the pictures I've seen, he sure didn't look the part.

Dan

i have a signed copy. my dad met him, and my mother still has one of the playing cards shot up and signed by Ed McGivern. the part i find most amazing is the fact that the colt 1911 could not cycle fast enough for him, so he had to use the DA revolver. five rounds into a playing card @ 15 feet in four tenths of a second (if i remember correct, been a while since i read the book). one of the true great shooters of all time.

monty

had to do an edit and apologise. my copy of the book is not signed (could have sworn it was). i dug the book out after reading this thread and looked. i still treasure the book and hope to talk my mother out of the playing card someday...

Think it was a Bisley Colt with the trigger taped back for fanning. The name McGivern is interesting to me though I have never researched it. My Uncle Frank McGivern was from Minnesota, and a great lakes pilot for ore shipping for many years. He named his first son Edward, they lived in Stephenson, Mich until both of their deaths Frank 1999, Eddie 2002.