Shooting & Scaling

183 entries in Cards / Sleights / Shooting & Scaling
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
To Throw a Card
1876 Modern Magic 38
To Throw a Card
1889 Tricks with Cards 32
Friedrich W. Conradi-Horster The Flying Card card thrown in air comes back, on thread tied to ceiling
Related to 1896 Der moderne Kartenkünstler 73
The Flying and Obedient Card wide distance boomerang card, thread
Related to 1897 New Era Card Tricks 194
Das Kartenwerfen "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
card throwing, four different grips, with boomerang option
 		Jan. 1898 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 4 No. 1) 2
Arthur "Dr. Avon" Kollmann Die springenden Karten "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
card pops out of deck into air
Variations July 1899 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 5 No. 7) 99
Throwing Cards including:
  • catching it in deck
  • cutting it in half with scissors ("cut the whirling card in twain")
  • throwing a double that splits in the air
 		1909 The Art of Magic 37
The "Boomerang" Card
1933 Farelli's Card Magic — Part One 21
Fred Harcourt Throwing Two Cards in Succession
1933 Farelli's Card Magic — Part One 21
Victor Farelli The "Boomerang" Card
  • Throwing Cards with Both Hands: No Pack Used
  • Card Caught with Hand at Side
  • Throwing Two Card Together: No Pack Used
  • Catching a Card with Scissors
  • Addition to Cutting a CArd in the Air
  • Loaded Card for "Boomerang"
 		1933 Farelli's Card Magic — Part One 22
The Boomerang Card
1933 Card Manipulations (Issue 1) 21
Tom Sellers A New Jumping Card Trick jumps from pack
 		1934 Card Tricks That Work 3
Joseph Cottone The Jumping Joker selection flys out of deck
 		1941 More Card Manipulations (Issue 4) 43
Edward Marlo Nu Presentation Jumping Card
 		1942 Let's See the Deck 22
Tom Sellers The Shooting Card from pack
 		1943 Magical Mixture 25
Audley Walsh, Pop-Up Cards cards either appear at fingertips or shoot in air from classic palm
 		1945/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4 123
Audley Walsh The Jump-Up Card card jumps straight up from deck in hat
 		1945/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4 124
Richard Himber The Revolver Card card shoots out of deck like a bullet
 		1945/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4 125
Audley Walsh Side Spinner
1945/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4 126
Audley Walsh Long Distance Spinner
Related to 1945/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4 127
Nu Presentation card shoots out of deck
 		1946 Early Marlo (Issue Marlo's Discoveries) 54
Throwing a Card
1948 The Royal Road to Card Magic 47
John Hamilton POP card jumps from top of the pack up in the air
 		1949 The Phoenix 151-200 (Issue 193) 771
Tossing Cards Into a Hat Technique taught for tossing cards into a hat accurately
 		1949 Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards 7
Kirk Stiles Whirlaround boomerang card, then card vanishes and appears again
 		1954 The Phoenix 251 — 300 (Issue 299) 1197
Karrell Fox Kickeroo Kard card shoots from deck, similar movement as One Hand Top Palm
 		1954 Kornfidentially Yours 25
Card Spinning
1955 Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic — Part III 13
Jerry Andrus Card Flip card held at two corners, card spins out
 		1957 Up Close with Andrus 7
Dai Vernon The Shooting Single handed Deal see reference for credit information
Related to 1959 Inner Secrets of Card Magic 74
James Steranko The Jumping Card card jumps from table back to deck
 		1960 Steranko on Cards 53
Karrell Fox The Constant Jumper cards jump out of deck
 		1960 Comedy a la Card 22
Stuart P. Cramer Letter to Don Tanner Cramer's card throwing routine, including Hummer's Whirling Card
 		1962 The New Phoenix 351-400 (Issue 373) 320
Al Leech Pseudo Boomerang invisible flight into pack
 		1965 Super Card Man Stuff 50
Harry Lorayne Flying Ace Move second card from top
 		1967 Deck-Sterity 141
Peter Kane Single Shot card shoots out of incomplete faro deck, card gun
Related toVariations 1967 A Card Session with Peter Kane 12
Richard W. Marsh Snap Out Card card flies from deck when snapped
 		1970 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1969-70) 57
Harry Lorayne The Lorayne Card Spin one-handed from deck
Also published here 1971 Reputation-Makers 100
Derek Dingle, Harry Lorayne Variation on Flying Ace Move second card from top
 		1971 Reputation-Makers 214
Harry Lorayne Flying Ace Move
1971 Dingle's Deceptions with Cards and Coins 13
Persi Diaconis Die Kartenpistole card shoots out of incomplete faro deck, card gun
Related toAlso published here
  • in "Zauberkunst" 1970, Nr.2.
 1971 Hokus Pokus (Vol. 32 No. 4) 61
Tom Batchelor The Fan Shot card sticks out of fan, it is flicked with other hand or shaken out with hand holding the fan
 		1971 Canadian Card Control 16
Sid Fleischman The Jump Card deck is snapped and selection jumps from center
Also published here 1973 Magick (Issue 82) 409
Jerry Andrus Funny Deal incomplete faro shuffled deck with one half perpendicular in T-formation, cards from one half shoot out one-handed
 		1973 Kurious Kards 42
Patrick Page 10. One Two Three It's Yours selection found by scaling it up behind the back
Also published here 1974 Ten Thoughts on Close-Up 8
Peter Kane, Ken Krenzel, Francis Carlyle The Gun card shoots out of incomplete faro deck, card gun, presentation and patter
Inspired by 1975 The Magic of Francis Carlyle 5
Gerald Kosky Spin-Away Card Deal little finger shot
 		1975 The Magic of Gerald Kosky 36
Gerald Kosky Fancy One-Hand Deal thumb shot
 		1975 The Magic of Gerald Kosky 37
The Boomerang Card optional catching in deck
 		1976 Now you see it, now you don't! 84
Card Throwing long distance
 		1976 Now you see it, now you don't! 85
Harry Eng Machine Gun Aces Aces shoot out of the deck
Also published here 1977 SuperMagic 111
Ken Krenzel Cut Propulsion card shooting from the middle as deck is cut
 		1978 The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel 150
John C. Wagner Pop-out Revelation tabled from riffle shuffle position
 		1978 7 Secrets 46
Die Karte aus dem Hut deck placed in hat, hat is flicked and card jumps out
Related to 1978 Einfach Wunderbar — Wunderbar Einfach 54
Larry West Acrobatic Card Extension bluff rising sequence, then card jumps out between two cards
Related to Mar. 1979 Apocalypse (Vol. 2 No. 3) 171
Jeff McBride The Jumping Card card is pressed on table and jumps up
 		May 1979 Apocalypse (Vol. 2 No. 5) 199
Harry Lorayne Snap Out! shoots out during cutting type action
 		1979 Quantum Leaps 87
Harry Lorayne Snap Out! #2 shoots out during cutting type action
 		1979 Quantum Leaps 90
Ken Krenzel Shooting Star card shoots out of deck
Related to 1979 CardMagic 53
Steve Beam Cards Are People Too as soon as card is touched by spectator is jumps from deck, gag
 		1979 Magic — The Vanishing Art 45
Boomerang Flourish brief
 		1980 Secrets of a "Puerto Rican Gambler" 24
John F. Mendoza Boomerang Tossing straight upwards
 		1980 John: Verse Two 33
Harry Lorayne The Lorayne Card Spin one-handed from deck
Also published here 1980 Lecture Notes 2
Irv Weiner Shoot Out after Swivel Cut a card shoots out
 		1980 Card Tricks from Mount Olympus 23
Jean-Jacques Sanvert Propel-A-Card boomerang card handling
 		Oct. 1981 Apocalypse (Vol. 4 No. 10) 550
Meir Yedid Slingshot Snapout bottom card shoots out
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1981 Cardworks 26
Boomerang Flourish
1981 The Commercial Card Magic of Roger Crosthwaite 39
Terri Rogers High Noon card shoots out of the deck
 		1981 Babel (Issue 1) 21
Daryl Martinez Hot Shot Cut one-handed cut with card shooting out of deck
Variations 1982 For Your Entertainment Pleasure 73
J. Gordon O'Genski "Wind Tunnel" card flys out of the deck in IF Condition
Variations May 1982 Apocalypse (Vol. 5 No. 5) 627
"Magic" Christian Stelzel Cards and Hat deck placed in hat, hat is flicked and card jumps out
Related to 1982 Stripper / Konische Karten 6
Meir Yedid Slingshot Snap Out bottom card shoots out
Also published here 1982 Incredible Close-Up Magic 51
Meir Yedid Flight of the Card shooting card over spectator's head with Slingshot Snap Out
 		1982 Incredible Close-Up Magic 65
Meir Yedid Make it Snappy! four reversed Aces lost in the deck, four times deck is cut and an Ace flies out, uses Slingshot Snap Out
 		1982 Incredible Close-Up Magic 68
Meir Yedid Free & Unlimited Cardage of Pasteboards loading card under object with Slingshot Snap Out
 		1982 Incredible Close-Up Magic 71
Jeff McBride Shooting Card e.g. selection lands on spectator's hand
 		May 1983 Apocalypse (Vol. 6 No. 5) 775
Ross Bertram Card Cannonade deck held in riffle shuffle position, card shoots out
 		1983 Bertram on Sleight of Hand 106
Ross Bertram The Shoot-Out four aces shoot out of deck one by one, tabled
 		1983 Bertram on Sleight of Hand 107
Meir Yedid Runaway Business Card business card shoots out of deck at beginning
Inspired byAlso published here 1983 Off the Wall 7
Mark Lefler Whirling Card card shoots out of deck and floats into hand
Related to 1983 Lecture III 16
David Britland Cannon Fire bottom card shoots out, different grip
Inspired by 1983 Cardopolis (Issue 1) 25
Michael Ammar, Adam Fleischer, Paul Harris, Daryl Martinez Happy Card card jumps from deck, while deck is split in the hands
 		1983 The Magic Hedonists Brainstorm In The Bahamas 57
Stephen Tucker Withdrawal Indifferent card flicked into deck, causes selection to be shot out
Related to 1984 The Card-Mad-gic of Stephen Tucker 25
Paul LePaul Pop-Out Production
1984 Magia Potagia — Volume III 70
Tom Mullica Dealing-Position Spinout
Mar. 1985 Apocalypse (Vol. 8 No. 3) 1036
Tom Craven Spin Change wrong card is tossed and splits into two selections in the air
 		1985 Best of Friends — Volume II 527
The Leaper end grip spin-out of top card
Related to 1985 Korem without Limits 76
Audley Walsh Audley Walsh Spinner
1985 The Magic of Eric DeCamps 20
Neal Elias Jumping Card from top of deck
 		1986 The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings 85
David Britland Shoot-Out rubber-band gimmick
 		1986 Angel Card Rise Plus 13
David Britland Fallen Angel card shoots from banded deck
Related toVariations 1986 Angel Card Rise Plus 26
Terri Rogers Shoot Out card jumps out of deck
Also published here 1986 Secrets 56
Thomas Hierling Bottom Card Spin-Out see also p. 121
Related to 1987 New Wave Close-Up 86
Masatoshi Furota Spinning Card Shots cards spin off stack in back palm
 		1988 The Scents of Sophistication 42
David Williamson Center Spin Out into other hand
Related to 1989 Williamson's Wonders 73
Martin Lewis Card Spin
1989 The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 27) 468
Terri Rogers Shoot Out card jumps out of deck
Also published here July 1989 Intermagic (Vol. 14 No. 4&5) 135
Harry Lorayne Underground Spinout spinout of second card from top
 		1990 Trend Setters 241
The Leaper
1990 The Minotaur (Vol. 2 No. 3) 6
Jon Racherbaumer, Paul Diamond The Zen Two-Shooter bullet trick, repeat feature, credit information
Inspired by 1990 Cardfixes 88
Meir Yedid Kartenschiessen
Also published here 1991 Meir Yedid 5
Shoot Out card shoots out in other hand, vertical
 		1992 Totally Out Of Control 58
Meir Yedid Slingshot Snapout bottom card shoots out
Also published here 1993 Memorable Magic 6
Meir Yedid Runaway Business Card business card shoots out of deck at beginning
Also published here 1993 Memorable Magic 8
Eddie Fechter Spring Card Revelation card jumps from deck to hand
 		1993 Fechter 208
Lyle Laughlin The Fine Art of Card Shooting deck held in hand, selection shoots up into the air
 		1993 The Charlatan's Handbook 196
Sid Fleischman The Fleischman Shoot No. 2, deck is snapped and selection jumps from center
Also published here 1993 The Charlatan's Handbook 199
Sid Fleischman The One-Handed Shoot No. 3, deck held in hand, selection shoots up into the air
 		1993 The Charlatan's Handbook 202
Alex Elmsley Little-Finger Spinner out of right-hand end grip
 		1994 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2 11
Audley Walsh Long Distance Spinner
1994 The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2 477
T. Page Wright Tip on Throwing Cards cutting out the center
Related toAlso published here
  • "The 'Holy' Pack"
 1994 Rigmarole (Issue 9) 100
Karl Fulves The "Holy" Pack credit information about holes in cards
Related to 1994 Verbatim (Issue 10) 129
The Boomerang Card
1995 Card College — Volume 1 175
Martin Lewis Card Production card jumps out of the deck
 		1995 The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 55) 1022
Lee Asher The Buzz top card shot to the right hand
 		1995 The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 59) 1143
Pinky Spin Revelation
1995 ca. Siamese Signatures and Other Oddities 16
Steve Blencoe, Harry Eng Machine-Gun Aces two halves are interlaced at right angles to simulate a gun, aces shoot out of deck one by one
Also published here 1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue Super Magic) 133
Paul Harris Cheap Shot Boomerang fake boomerang shot
 		1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Misc. Pieces of Paul) 275
Boomerang Card Flourish
1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 3 (Issue New Stuff) 35
Paul Harris, Daryl Martinez Daryl's Hot-Shot Cut (Simplified)
1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 3 (Issue Astonishing Friends) 311
Fourth Finger Shoot-Out top cards shoots off top of deck
 		1997 Notes 4
Richard Bartram, Jr. Bankshot hidden card shot from tenkai palm
Related to 1997 Trephine 9
Johnny "J.J." Johnston Some thoughts on the card spin and catch
Sep. 1997 Opus (Vol. 5 No. 6) 7
Peter Kane The Card Gun
1998 Card College — Volume 3 695
Pinky Spin Revelation
1998 ca. Flexing and Twisting 11
David Stone Rocket Card card shoots out during in-the-hands riffle shuffle
Also published here 1999 Mietek — Lecture Notes 39
Ellis Stanyon The Card Jumps Out of the Pack No. 12, card shoots up, purely manipulative
 		1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 23
Ellis Stanyon The Simple Throwing of a Card No. 14, card boomerangs back, thread attached
Variations 1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 162
Karl Fulves Supplementary Note ungaffed throwing, as described in Sachs's Sleight of Hand
Inspired by 1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 163
Ellis Stanyon To Throw a Card Across a Large Theatre No. 14
 		1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 304
Ellis Stanyon A Card Thrown a Considerable Distance, Returns to the Hand No. 15
 		1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 304
Ellis Stanyon A Card Thrown Returns and Is Severed by Scissors No. 16
 		1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 305
Boomerang Card Grip
Related to 2000 Card File Two 119
Helge Thun Die Fächerflieger "(oder: D'As fliegt mir nur so zu)"
three Aces spin out of fan in left hand and are inserted into fan one by one, last one appears in fan
Also published here 2000 Faustdick hinterm Schlitzohr 7
Helge Thun The Flying Fingers three Aces spin out of fan in left hand and are inserted into fan one by one, last one appears in fan
Also published here Aug. 2000 Genii (Vol. 63 No. 8) 68
Harry Lorayne Lorayne Spin card spins out of deck
 		2001 Personal Collection 192
Bill Frazee Stabbed In Back description of catching card between two selections behind back as seen from Jean Irving
Also published here
  • The Sphinx (Feb. 1944)
 2001 Latter Day Secrets (Issue 5) 148
David Stone Rocket card card shoots out during in-the-hands riffle shuffle
Also published here 2001 X-Rated 8
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Helicopter Doubles double spins from one hand to the other, two methods
 		2001 Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge in the Hands 21
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Bottom Shot bottom cards of deck shoot out one by one
 		2001 Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge in the Hands 26
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Boomerang Deck deck thrown and caught as a block
 		2001 Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge in the Hands 26
Nicholas Einhorn Nick's Flick from deck, with catching in deck with same hand
 		2004 World Tour Lecture Notes — Set 1 11
Peter Kane Single Shot from incomplete faro
 		2004 The Dave Campbell Legacy 123
Rick Bronson Spinner "(A Flourish)"
card spun off right hand's fingers onto deck, Duck Change type dynamics
 		2005 Seven By Rick Bronson 13
Martin Lewis Martin Lewis Popout
2005 Home Schooled 12
Jack Avis Idea on C. Miller's "Top Spin Out" center spin out
 		2006 Rara Avis 136
Nick Pudar Split Boomerang card represents two selections, then splits and becomes those selections
 		2007 Best of Friends — Volume III 115
Fred Robinson Card Catch card thrown and caught next to selection
 		2009 The Magic of Fred Robinson 222
Roberto Giobbi Boomerang applications for the Boomerang Flourish as misdirection
 		2010 Secret Agenda (Issue Jan 14) 18
Patrick Page One, Two Three, It's Yours selection found by scaling it up behind the back
Also published here 2011 Magic Page by Page 51
Chad Nelson Stick'em Up Double Turnover one handed double turnover, then shot into other hand
 		2012 El Manuscrito (Vol. 5 No. 19) 576
David Gabbay Dizzy Tenkai (The Card That Falls Up) card shoots from one hand to other, used as flourish or “muscle pass” effect
 		2012 Noteworthy 55
Patrick Lehnen Frog Tongue card is shot back into the deck
Related to 2013 Lecture Notes 46
Roberto Giobbi, Fred Kaps The Kaps Flick one-handed
 		Apr. 2013 Genii (Vol. 76 No. 4) 18
Tom Crosbie L.D.S. - Long Distance Second long distance spinner, second card
 		2013 Just Be Croz 41
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Buck Shot card shoots from hand, no deck
 		2014 Card Men 12
, Gabi Pareras Two-Card Catch Variation with double boomerand
 		2014 A Fuego Lento — Volumen I 141
Kiko Pastur Tweedledee, Tweedledum one handed turnover of card and shooting it to other hand
 		2014 El Puente Invisible 78
Kiko Pastur El Gato de Cheshire card jumps out of fan up into other hand
 		2014 El Puente Invisible 81
Kiko Pastur El Pájaro Dodo bottom shot
 		2014 El Puente Invisible 84
Lennart Green El Galimatazo thumb shot
 		2014 El Puente Invisible 85
Kiko Pastur El Rey Blanco Green's Top Shot to Sandwich
 		2014 El Puente Invisible 88
Edo Huang Single Shot top card spins off deck, similar to Lennart Green's Top Shot
 		2015 Card Coffee Collective 57
Edo Huang Double Shot a double is spun off top of deck
 		2015 Card Coffee Collective 63
Audley Walsh Das Kartenschiessen with optional rubbery thumb tip
Related to 2016 Burners — Vol. 5 31
Harry Lorayne Lorayne Spin off the deck
 		2018 And Finally! 124
Helge Thun Fächerflieger three Aces spin out of fan in left hand and are inserted into fan one by one, last one appears in fan
Also published here 2019 Seminah 36
Yves Carbonnier 3. La Carte Revolver gun trick
Inspired by
  • "The Shooting Joker" (Peter Kane, Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. 20 No. 8, April 1963)
 2019 Grand Livre de Cartomagie 180
Tom Gagnon Chinese Card Spin card spins out after flip-over deal flourish, also as apparent transformation
Inspired byRelated to
  • "Chinese Boomerang" (Roger Klause, The Gen, Vol. 19 No. 10)
 2019 Gagnon Unfiltered 23
Steve Forte jump-deal cards jump off the deck
 		2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2 1004
Steve Forte, Ray Goulet wrong-direction deal card shoots out in wrong direction
 		2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2 1005
Steve Forte sky-high stud deal
2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2 1005
Steve Forte aces airborne Aces spin out of center of deck at once and are caught
 		2020 Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2 1009
Richard Hucko Quad Shot one-handed cut into four packets with card shooting out of deck
Inspired by Nov. 2021 The Disclaimer (Vol. 1 No. 8) 211
Lennart Green Top Shot with double facer, Samurai Move
 		2021 Mi(s)directa Magia Vol. I 44
Lionel Gallardo Desde el estuche chosen card jumps out from deck inside card case
 		2021 Mi(s)directa Magia Vol. I 131
The Jump-up Card shooting card up in the air
 		2021 Mi(s)directa Magia Vol. I 134
Jeremiah Zuo The Playing Card Muscle Pass bottom card of a double shoots out, apparently card materializing between sandwich cards, snap change mechanics
 		Feb. 2022 The Disclaimer (Vol. 1 No. 11) 286
Jeremiah Zuo Card From Box card flies out of cased deck, using The Playing Card Muscle Pass
Also published here
  • The Experts at the Breakfast Table, 2014
 Feb. 2022 The Disclaimer (Vol. 1 No. 11) 288
Max Malini Card-Scaling Stunt reports of unbelievable card throw skills
 		2022 Max Malini 300
Stephen Chamblee Convex Spin card held at corners along long side and flicked reversed onto table where it spins quickly, applications:
  • For Distance
  • Spinning like a Top
  • The Change
Also published here
  • MAGIC, June 2004
 2022 Talk About Tricks (Issue 1) 309
Stuart Lightbody Deckatch card tossed from deck behind back into other hand around body, repeat by tossing whole deck except selection
Also published here
  • MAGIC, Oct. 2012
 2022 Talk About Tricks (Issue 2) 1152
The Snap Throw method to throw card, starting position on back of thumb with finger over card
 		2022 Instructions for a few Miracles 18
Martin Lewis End Grip Spin
Also published here
  • Cards as Weapons, Ricky Jay
 2022 Seminah 2 56