By Dan Merritt, Advocate Reporter
He holds his left arm up as though protecting his eyes from the sun. Back arched, his right hand is stationary atop his Ruger Vaquero pistol. It’s in a holster on his right hip. His thumb’s on the hammer. Dean Storms — the Beaver Creek Kid of southwest Tripp County — is about to draw and shoot.
Oooops! He just did, in the 0.3 second of time it took to read the last three words of the previous paragraph.
The life-time Winner/Valentine area rancher and his wife Nancy compete in Cowboy Fast Draw Association contests from local to world levels. She can draw and shoot in a time of 0.6-seconds. Sometimes better than that, in the 0.5’s.
Dean was world champion of men in 2013. Nancy was Nebraska women’s champ in 2012. Or, that is, Mother Nature was champ (that’s Nancy’s Fast Draw “name”). The two were the best couple in the world Fastest Gun Alive competition in Nevada in 2011 and in 2014.
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