Being Held in the Cowboy Corral “Shooting Tent” At Civitan Park Preliminaries Start 11:00 am Sat. June 7th Finals Start 9:00 am Sunday June 8th Visitors are welcome to talk with the shooters & try their hand at Fast Draw after each day’s event! No live ammunition is used in Fast Draw. This contest is sanctioned by  American Fast Draw Association LLC and sponsored by a local club: The Heart of Dixie Fast Draw Club.

About Fast Draw: At a fast draw contest a shooter is required to draw a single action revolver form a holster at a given signal, fire and hit a target as fast as they can. Safety is one of our primary concerns for both competitor and spectators. We do NOT shoot live ammo at our contests. We use wax bullets that are propelled by shotgun primers. Electronic timing equipment is used to measure the speed at which the shooter can draw, cock the hammer, fire and hit a given target. The times you hear the timer operator call out are in "hundredths of one second."

History of Fast Draw: On a blustery day toward the end of October, 1881, the town of Tombstone, Arizona, witnessed the most notorious shoot-out in history of the West. In a vacant lot at the rear of the O.K. Corral, City Marshal Virgil Earp and his brothers Wyatt and Morgan, joined by a gambler friend named Doc Holiday exchanged

gunfire , with four local cowboys, the Clanton and the MeLaury brothers.

The duration, in fact, was slightly more than half a moment, although a deadly staccato of vengeful gunfire echoed for months afterwards.

Many such stories dot the history books and lore of the old west. The concept of Fast Draw is as old as the West but its history starts in the mid-1950. From the beginning the sport began to grow and fast draw shooting clubs spread across the country.