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Old 04-21-2017, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Rastoff View Post
Here's a good pic of why shooting a revolver from retention can be bad:

This is a great photo of why you do not want to stand in-front of a firearm.

How many shots have you personally taken from retention?

When learning to speed shoot with single action revolvers I took thousands at least. Perhaps tens of thousands over those years.

We did put a piece of duct tape on our shirts at the contact point of the propellant gasses. The reason for this was that by the end of the day, the hundreds of rounds that we had fired would cause a stain on the shirt. Removing the tape made laundry much easier.

Photos like that one are the same argument that folks use when saying you can not fire a Smith and Wesson Centennial or Bodyguard from a pocket because you will set the garment on fire, that is another incorrect assumption.

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