It's been years since I shot black powder and I'd forgotten how it hangs in the air. This looks more like morning mists, maybe in cloud forest. Impressive.

Oh, while we're on fast draws, in one of his earliest books, Winston Churchill noted that his general on the NW Frontier of India, Maj. Gen. Sir Bindon Blood, drew and shot an Afghan or an Afridi (?) tribesman when the man went for his knife at a peace conference. Sir Bindon knew the Pathan tribes well and was half expecting something like that. But he must have still been pretty fast.

Churchill didn't mention the revolver or the holster. He was himself then wearing a .455 Webley-Wilkinson Model of 1892. But some savvy British officers wore Colt SAA .45's and .44-40's. Lt. Col. Vincent Fosbery, V.C. said that the best handgun "stopper" he saw used was the Colt .44-40. (Yes, he's the man who later invented the Webley-Fosbery automatic revolver. But his active service days were by then behind him.)