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Originally Posted by C J
As far as handguns go and the cup and saucer grip there's a real good reason it got started. It's the fastest way to teach someone to be accurate. It may not be a good idea but as long as I've been shooting this is the first time I saw it mentioned as a safety issue. The reasons I've seen for changing to a new grip are about control of the handgun. Many of us learned that cup and saucer style with a revolver where there was no danger of a mag exploding. I've never seen any reference to a safety problem with it though. I'm not the brightest bulb in the box though. I just would have noticed if it had been mentioned by anyone ever. I've surfed a lot of gun boards and read many articles on shooting stances and grips and I've only heard that it is a safety issue in this thread. So either I'm missing something or it isn't a common thing being taught. I know modern shooters favor different styles but again it was always sold as a more accurate way to shoot and not a safety issue at least as far as I've seen.
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Probably missed it...when I switched from a Revolver to a Semi-Auto back around
1990, the guys at the Gulf Breeze Pistol Parlor gave me the instruction with purchase.
When I went to hold it like a revolver with the old Cup & Saucer grip,
the guy corrected me and told me that if something went wrong, like a squib
followed by another shot, it'd blow the mag downwards and anything under
the mag would get fried & possibly shrapnelled...I took the hint
Over the years it's been shown more than once that the instruction was absolutely correct.
And it's an outdated hold at best at this point, much better revolver holds,
and FAR better semi-auto holds are now known.