Fancy Gun Spinning Tricks : The Bill Akins Draw and Spin

[@BillAkinsProduction]

I just saw this today 9/30/24 and had no idea anyone had done an evaluation on my draw 2 years ago. I enjoyed your evaluation of my draw very much SaintAndrewsTV. You understood it very well. Just a couple of things though. You need to place your thumb pointing totally forward and over the hammer and recoil shield which prevents the hammer from being pushed open as you draw and also aids in pulling the revolver out of the holster since you are putting pressure on the hammer and recoil shield with your thumb and putting pressure on the front of the trigger guard with your middle finger, while you also put pressure against the bottom of the trigger guard with your trigger finger. All of which basically securely holds the revolver tightly between your thumb and your middle finger and your trigger finger. This gives you a more secure three points of hold while drawing. Less chance of dropping the revolver. Also as soon as you clear leather and spin the gun into firing position, your thumb having been facing forward is now instantly ready to flick downward to cock the hammer (every split second counts). Thanks for your review I appreciate it very much and am honored. I subscribed to your channel also.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Hello Bill! I appreciate the guidance here! It was brought to my attention years ago and wanted to give it a try! I never imagined you’ve ever see this! Thanks for coming by. I couldn’t be more grateful!

[@BillAkinsProduction]

@@SaintAndrewTV You're very welcome and thank YOU.

[@jerrylancaster256]

I think I'm the reason for this one

[@SaintAndrewTV]

You very well could be! Thanks for the idea and thank you for watching!

[@JMTRBXXXX]

Ye

[@Robert-vv6qp]

Now I just need a holster and a revolver. Great video 👍

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you ever so kindly!

[@GuitarGuyBornInTheWrongDecade]

This is actually the reverse draw Ive always done with my toy revolvers and now my real one without even knowing about this spin, neato!

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Interesting....I'll have to work on this one. Looks fun.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

It’s easier than it looks! If I can do it, anyone can!

[@HunterSavage-i8y]

Arizona!!! I’m subbed to your channel

[@toxicdefault6753]

This draw is just so satisfying to see.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I’m glad you like this!

[@thormusique]

That is really very cool! You and Bill Akins both make this look so easy. While growing up I would spend probably too much time gun-spinning. I loved doing it and actually got pretty good at it, but only much later did I realise that spinning what were essentially toy guns (even metal ones) is really nothing like spinning the real thing. So I recently got myself a Uberti 1873 Colt replica with Army grips and 5.5" barrel that I've absolutely have fallen in love with. The only problem is that I'm having to completely "relearn" how to spin properly. These guns are heavy! I think I'd better start with baby steps, cheers!

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Well thank you very much for the kind words my friend! And keep working at it! Spinning a real one or a properly weighted replica is exhausting! That’s a whole lot of steel taking up very little space! Haha

[@thormusique]

@@SaintAndrewTV Ha! Yes, I had no idea. Being a guitarist, I thought my hands were pretty tough. Guess they're not gun-spinning tough! ;-)

[@allsport916]

Nicely done, sir. Great content.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you, Mason! I’m glad you enjoy!

[@a38s]

Great video!

[@nelsonstrickland8813]

You make those tricks look easy smooth....it ain't your 1st rodeo....😁

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you very much, Nelson! I appreciate that!

[@jerseyhurricane9085]

Thanks for the great video !!! Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

You as well friend! Thank you.

[@javedalive-z4h]

WONDERFUL 💂

[@bwave4207]

Very cool tutorial love the slow motion

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you!

[@DrOctagonaduck2]

Thank you for shouting out enbies! I’m an enby wannabe cowboy😁

[@SaintAndrewTV]

No problem my friend!

[@tnbass2833]

I had no idea this was someone's signature draw I've been doing this exact draw for years with cross draw holsters lol.

[@HansShackleford]

The classics cover of paper planes is fire

[@RebelSandGaming]

You should check out bone tomahawk it's a pretty good film

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I’ve seen it and I really liked it!

[@timothyrichardson3488]

Lee Van Cleef used that in " The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly"

[@BillAkinsProduction]

No, Lee Van Cleef did not flip and spin draw directly from the holster. No one has until I invented and developed it. I was technical advisor to the actor named Brahm and taught him to do it for the award winning spaghetti western short film he was in entitled: "Shoot in any direction and you'll hit a bastard". But prior to that, no one else has flip spin drawn directly from the holster on film.

[@timothyrichardson3488]

@@BillAkinsProduction Lee Van Cleef can't do no wrong

[@alexas-1314]

I do a similar one but the holster is in a cross draw position (on the front left side of the hip) and draw with my left hand using my index to pull the revolver out.

[@johnbeck3270]

The draw I find interesting is in Clint Eastwood’s The Outlaw Jose Wales. He is faced with two very skanky mountain men in a trading post.The pistol grips are in an inverted position, the pistols then roll over, reverse into the firing position. I have heard also of of a “border roll” and a “border switch”, the way I understand this it involves moving the “off hand” loaded gun to the shooter’s “favored” hand, and the empty gun to the shooter’s “off” hand. This seems to be quite a feat to me, juggling two firearms in such a manner.

[@BillAkinsProduction]

But Josey didn't draw, flip and spin them from the holster. He did the Curley Bill spin with them AFTER he slowly drew them. Also that footage of him flipping them after they were out of their holsters was speeded up, because those Colt Whitneyville Walkers have a 9 inch barrel and weigh about 5 lbs each and you cannot spin them that rapidly as Eastwood did without the cheat of speeding up the film. You are also describing "the border shuffle", where if you are right handed and your right hand gun is empty and you have another gun in your left hand but want it in your right hand, you flip the right hand gun up into the air and quickly switch the left hand gun into your right hand and then catch the gun from the air by the grip in your left hand. Takes some practice doing that juggle (because that's what it is) and I suggest doing that and my special draw from the holster over a bed because you WILL drop the gun learning to do both, trust me, I did learning them both. After repeated practice you will develop what is called "known muscle memory", where you do it so much it almost becomes automatic and your muscles are used to it as is your timing. Spinning/twirling is good for strengthening the fingers and hands. But again, do it over the bed until you get really practiced with it, and even then, still practice over the bed unless you want your gun dinged up from dropping.

[@alvarobrat]

Hola amigo gracias por compartir me encanta el spinning lástima que no tengo una réplica para practicar, saludos del canal de cuchillería artesanal Alvaro Brat 🤠🔪👍🇦🇷 desde Argentina

[@JRingo-vp5wp]

I 've always known such as "The Border Roll," particularly when you're handing your pistol to your adversary in surrender thereof. I like your videos. Good stuff, amigo!

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you friend! Hope you continue to enjoy!

[@RealBelisariusCawl]

Bro’s got the Hickok aesthetic. Just carry that gun in a sash instead of a holster and it’s 10/10

[@SaintAndrewTV]

I just need a sash!

[@connorreed4502]

Do you think you could do a draw video with black powder revolver like a colt 1851 navy, 1860 army, or 1858 Remington?

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Oh 100%! I do not have a black powder revolver, but it is in the plans for the future. And when I do get one, I’ll make a video! Thanks for watching!

[@connorreed4502]

@@SaintAndrewTV Sounds good! :)

[@jasongualdoni4809]

That's cool!!!!

[@producerJman]

Love it❤❤❤

[@jerrylancaster256]

I feel like it could be nice for quickly drawing a longer gun?

[@SaintAndrewTV]

That’s what my thought was. I only have 4 3/4” barrel pistols, but it definitely feels that way!

[@BillAkinsProduction]

Good thinking. My longer barrels of my 1860's has more weight than shorter barrels and helps add inertia to when I flip and spin the gun into firing position. It's actually easier to do my draw with my long barrel 1860's than it is with my 4 & 1/2" barreled Uberti 1872 Colts.

[@wsearp]

I never heard of bill akins, but thats the wsy i did it in the 50s when I was into fast draw....

[@ericruss4189]

In the movie, American Outlaws, Frank James use this move to draw both pistols at the same time prior to going into the bank.

[@SaintAndrewTV]

That’s really cool! I’ll have to watch that!

[@kaptunkordan6656]

i have a 7 inch barrel on my 1851 pietta, its a bit heavy to spin but im trying, if i can spin this thing i can spin anything

[@SaintAndrewTV]

That is very true! That’s a lot of steel!

[@XexiPwnageGaming702]

Ah yes 6th street and allen. Right in front of the bird cage. Good spot.

[@NicholasReguin]

Can you cover the spinning trick into the cross draw holster from your intro??

[@SaintAndrewTV]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZjWepljZaqFarc This is one variation! Let me know if there’s any other ones that you’d like me to cover! Thanks for watching

[@shastaham7630]

Reminiscent of a Wild Bill Elliot western.

[@Deer_Slayer5937]

Technically since those cylinders are fluded he uses 1862 police models

[@BillAkinsProduction]

No Remy-de8kl. They are my Pietta .44 cal 1860 nickel plated ones that originally came with gold plated, fluted cylinders. I replaced them with fluted stainless .44 replacement cylinders from Cabelas, that I don't think Cabelas carries anymore. I replaced my gold plated Pietta factory fluted cylinders with the Cabelas stainless fluted cylinders because firing was flaking the gold off my factory fluted gold plated Pietta cylinders. Trust me, look closely at them, they are 1860's not the smaller and lighter and smaller caliber 1862 police models.

[@Deer_Slayer5937]

@@BillAkinsProduction ok cool I didn’t know thanks for telling me

[@BillAkinsProduction]

@@Deer_Slayer5937 My pleasure, you're very welcome.

[@IroBq]

I do these draws and tricks with a model 3 schofield and it's sometimes very uncontrollable because of its weight and length

[@IroBq]

Also tends to get knocked open and the gun breaks to reveal the bullets

[@biggusdickus5986]

Get a colt then

[@IroBq]

@biggusdickus5986 got 2 but the schofield os a beautiful gun

[@guillotinecross4907]

Revolver dubble​ action can do this?

[@SaintAndrewTV]

As long as it’s not loaded.

[@DieZiegeMachtBa]

Hi! Im a huge fan of the wild west and wanna learn some tricks with a toy gun… And I wanna ask where did you bought that gun? Or is this a real one? Great video

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Thank you, friend! The one I use for the videos is a real gun! I don’t have any non-firing replicas!

[@DieZiegeMachtBa]

@@SaintAndrewTV Oh Ok good to know Buddy!

[@Olinke]

Can you do it akimbo?

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Of course you can! I just don’t have second cavalry setting holster! Check out Bill’s video. He does it with 1860 army’s and has one in each hand! Pretty cool!

[@alvaropeinado1447]

Is there an specific name for this holsters? mine is way different and can;t grab the revolver the same.

[@declan11ful]

Neat

[@backlash00]

You make shadows on the town behind you.

[@marksanto1086]

Bill's draw looks different. He doesn't appear to 'flip' it on the draw, but does when reholstering.

[@BillAkinsProduction]

I have to flip it on the draw in order to spin it into firing position. I just do it fast. But you should be able to tell on the slow motion segments.

[@Gevdt3hPwnz0r]

lol he looks like wild bill

[@SaintAndrewTV]

That’s a great compliment!

[@spiderboy123_yt2]

I think Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead has his gun in that type of way, but the holster is on his left side backwards.

[@Harleyjohnston21]

I have ancestors that were outlaws there names were the Smiths

[@bilbo_gamers6417]

The "ladies, gentlemen, and nonbinary", the Flapper Paper Planes cover, the pornhub logo with your channel name typed over it. What the hell is this channel... subscribed...

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Welcome aboard, my friend!

[@silasmcgarrah4796]

If I had to duel with you I’d watch your left hand to see what you anticipate doing. I do that with my left too

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

In international law, an isolated member of the armed forces or members of a formation who surrender are considered hors de combat and must not be made the object of attack. Feigning surrender is an act of perfidy and is therefore forbidden. In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deception in which one side promises to act in good faith (such as by raising a flag of truce) with the intention of breaking that promise once the unsuspecting enemy is exposed (such as by coming out of cover to take the "surrendering" prisoners into custody). Perfidy constitutes a breach of the laws of war and so is a war crime, as it degrades the protections and mutual restraints developed in the interest of all parties, combatants and civilians. -Wikipeda

[@skithness]

Metal gear makes me want to know

[@justaweeb9086]

I don't know a whole lot about drawing guns but this doesn't seem too practical. Is this just for show or is there actually a practical reason for this?

[@SaintAndrewTV]

Just for show. It’s had no practicality to it. Just in good fun as long as you’re safe.

[@BillAkinsProduction]

The practicality is that I can draw an 8 inch barrel with rammer, heavy Colt 1860 and cock and fire faster this way than someone else can drawing the same gun either butt rearward or butt forward conventional style. So if you're ever on the streets of Tombstone and you have an 1860 Colt and your opponent has the same gun, you will outdraw them. So yes today it is for show, but had it been back in those times, I could have outdrawn wild Bill Hickock since he did the conventional butt forward cavalry draw and my draw technique is faster.

[@paulwitmer7138]

Close-ups please

[@carlchiles1047]

For as many people that needed up going west..at one point..a lot of people left the jumping off point in Kansas City or St.Joe, Missouri..on their way to California..with most seeing good grazing land or fertile ground for plowing..with a good team to scratch out a living..but for the tens of thousands that ended up out there, some firing of guns happened, but few actual gunfights..Wyatt would usually just crack them over the head and haul them off to a cell..The Johnson County War..corruption and greed..glorified..the west was wild because most places had no laws or law enforcement..Most judges were circuit judges who might show up every few months..no jails…throw them in a storage shed..til the judge happened by..it was not romanticized..life itself was pretty boring day to day..no one went looking for a gunfight..

[@TrulyUnfortunate]

You wont be spinning my S&W 610-3 thats for sure. You'd end up with a broken finger.

[@alexanderg5736]

🇷🇺☦️👍🐞

[@gffrycole]

How'd I get here?

[@biggusdickus5986]

Well first off your mom & dad had to meet and find each other attractive, then they got married, and decided to have a you, which involved them in the act of copulation, many times over to make sure. Then 9 months later your mom was taken to a maternity hospital where after some strain and likely some cussing out popped little old you. I hope you are now knowledgeable of how you got here. It was my pleasure to explain. You're welcome. 🤗