I haven't been real confident with snub revolvers because I just couldn't seem to shoot one well enough to satisfy me at all except at very close range.

I shot 50 rounds today, in my five shot J frame at some 5 and mostly 7 yards, shooting defensive style. Many were in the center, the rest were in the kill zone, except for two flyers that were still body shots.

I feel a lot more confident, if I can keep it up and just didn't have a great day at the range.

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"He was kinda funny lookin'"

Good for you RW. Did you utilize modern technique with front sight flash picture?

I've been studying Sykes Fairbairn and to a lesser extent Applegate and point shooting. Going to take a course in two weeks with John Farnam where he emphasizes sighted fire at least past 12 feet. Probably will be shooting my 3 inch 36 - 1 and my 2 inch 638.

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If you can shoot a snub you can shoot anything. I got addictive to the stubbies because they are so challenging. Especially double action.

I shoot mine 15 yds. at 5" Shoot and See targets and I do pretty well.
At 7 yds I can wear the 5" target out.

Stay with it and have fun.

I decided about 50 yrs. ago that a 2 in. barrel is not as much of a shooting handicap that many people claim it is. A "get off me gun" doesn't have to put the bullets in the same hole at 50 yds. I have never saw anything to make me change my mind. Larry

I just got my first snubby, a 640. Hope to get to the range tomorrow.
Glad to hear you had a good range day!

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That was what I had in mind, but to a non-instructed extent. I've got much more to learn, but at least I feel like I can shoot the gun effectively. I hope with practice and learning it will be uphill from here. I had a snub model 10 years ago, and I just never got good with it. Of course with carry and SD nowadays the it's taken priority.

Hickok45 on Youtube gives me something to 'shoot' for. He rings a gong at 80 yards with a pocket pistol. Pretty much disproves the 'short barrels are less accurate' thing. Snubs are still hard to learn though.

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Just need lotsa practice, both dry fire and live fire.
I shot this:


With this:


From this far away, I'm the hairy guy on the left:

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Those are really good groups for those distances. I imagine those pachymars really help with accuracy.

I have magnas and Tyler Ts on my two steel j frames. I could probably get better accuracy with a medium sized grip but I usually carry my Bulldog anyway.

Can't really see you in the photo. A little hair and a shoulder.

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Yeah my wife's not used to my camera.
That's me in my avatar.

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Keep on Chooglin'

The mod 38 was painful to shoot even with standard loads. The Hogue Monogrip fixed that. The mod 36 was 'tolerable' being all steel, but I put some Pachmehrs on it and that's what I shot today. Maybe that it what made some of the difference in my shooting.

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"He was kinda funny lookin'"

My method of learning to shoot my 640 Centennial was....

load

shoot

say some colorful words

repeat, 2000 times.

The learning curve was rather shallow. However, I can now hit a paper plate @ 25 yds 80% of the time.