I was watching a Have Gun, Will Travel show tonight for the umpteenth time entitled The Naked Gun featuring a Bridgeport Rig. I became curious so I did a Google search and sure enough there is a person making replicas of the Bridgeport Rig. The rig was invented and patented by a sheriff in Texas in 1882 for fast draw by law officers although it wasn't long until outlaws used it as well. A marshal out of Texas used one as well for fast draw.

We always hear that fast draw in Westerns is a Hollywood phenomena only as they never did it in the real Wild West. Yet if one studies the holster history of the Wild West there are a number of examples of fast draw rigs, a few of those rigs are shoulder holsters. This has lead me to think there may have been more fast draw shoot outs than we are lead to believe for why invent fast draw rigs in the first place.

Just some random thoughts.

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