Sawmill South Carolina Snub Round Up – American Fighting Revolver

A great set of instructors will be teaching the snub revolver on August 3-4 in South Carolina. Revolver guy or revolver curious, this may be the class for you. My oldest son and I are going and are very much looking forward to it.

Informational video:

South Carolina Snub Revolver Roundup Information!

Maybe I will see some of you there!

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Hello Cleveland, Rock and Roll

FWIW, I recognize 3 of the listed instructors. Top rate. DB is one of the folks behind the 432UC project.

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NHI, 10-8.

"500 rounds will get you through the course- (NOT INCLUDED IN FEE)

Students will get training on snub revolvers" ... from the link.

500 rounds in a snubby in two days is a lot of shooting. I shot PPC in my youth and that was 420 rounds in a day of matches.

Thunder Ranch has a "Defensive Revolver" course I am considering taking. That would be about my twentieth course.

Yeah, in the informational video they say 500 rounds is probably more than will actually be needed, 400ish is more likely, but they didn't want anyone to run short. Also, they want folks, if possible, to bring two guns: a "real" carry/pocket snub and a "cheater" snub (like a 2" or 3" K frame, L frame, GP100, etc.) for the bulk of the shooting. While one is welcome to shoot the entire class with an Airweight, it isn't required.

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Hello Cleveland, Rock and Roll

Cost?..............

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I think the info said $550 for the course and then there is housing available on site but it does not go into the cost for that.

Looks to be a good group of instructors. I also recognized 3, worked with Chuck for several years, and upon doing some research the one I didn't recognize, Bryan Eastridge (I think it was) seems to be the real deal as well.

Just not sure I can swing the money right now as I am between employers and taking some time off to relax. Of course this would be pretty relaxing.

In regard to the 500 rounds, when I did the old snubby course from TDI I took a 640PRO and a 442. We fired around 700+ round in 3 days or so and those with airweights were hurting.

I would probably go with a 2 inch K frame for this one and a pocket airweight.

Just my 2 cents that isn't worth a penny.

Yep, cost of the class is $550. Lodging, ammo, etc. is obviously extra. Of course, depending on where you are in SC, you might not need the lodging part. I ended up finding a Vrbo about 15 miles from the range. My oldest son and I are taking the class, the rest of my family will be relaxing by the lake while we do that. Hopefully that means we will come "home" to dinner when class is over courtesy of my wife.

Bryan and DB were the two guys in on the Airweight UCs Lipsey's ordered.

My plan for the "cheater" gun is probably going to be my 3" GP100 in .44 Special. I really like the gun, but with a 5 round cylinder it isn't very useful for competitions since they all seem to be based around 6 round cylinders (at least to be even remotely competitive). This would give me something fun and interesting to do with it.

My "real" snub will probably be my LCR in 9mm because I actually carry that pretty regularly. It isn't exactly pleasant to shoot, but with 147 grain subsonic it hits point of aim and isn't unpleasant to shoot. It is nearly as bad as the .357 LCR when loaded with 124 grain +P Gold Dot. It is closer to a .38 in feel with the standard pressure 147s.

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Hello Cleveland, Rock and Roll

My daughter lives in Laurens..........BUT I think I'll take that $550 and put it toward something that shoots or more ammo.

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Interesting. Enjoy. Always good to see an interest in remembering and teaching DA/DAO short gun use.

I agree that shooting maybe 200rds each day for a couple days might tax the average lightweight snub shooter, especially if the ammo used is +P, and if Airweight (or any combination of Sc/Ti/PD) is involved.

Being able to mix a lightweight model with an all-steel model during the class might be handy.

Since I run either old factory stocks or lightweight 'boot' grip stocks with exposed backstraps on my J's, there's not any 'cushioning' involved, and nowadays running even 100rds of +P within 30 minutes or less starts to feel a bit punishing in my 642's and M&P 340's.

Then, there's the way the bottom of the trigger guard whips upward under +P recoil and starts to hammer the bottom of my trigger finger's distal knuckle. Standard pressure loads are more tolerable in that regard.

The steel guns are less punishing, of course.

Have fun. Learn some new techniques and polish some trigger skills.

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I shot at that facility when I was stationed at Gordon. It's got a lot of cool props and the onsite bunk house had washers/dryer in it (i didn't need them).

From my understanding this is a mirror of the GunSite revolver roundup, just offered on the east coast. So this is not so much singular class, but rather a series of time blocks in which you could attend lectures or range instructions. It would be possible to go the entire event without shooting anything, or one could attempt to schedule only the range based presentations. But it is my assumption that each attendee will have a mix of classroom lectures and range time.

I really wanted to attend this, but it is the same weekend as the Tactical Games match in NH.

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Nevermind, I just re-read the posting, and there are less instructors at this event than at the Gun Site one, so each student will be moved through each instructor and instructional content block.

I suspect more accurately that this is a mobile version of the snobby program at HITS, of which DB and Wayne are the principals. I was going to attend one several years ago and had to bail out due to a work injury (carpal tunnel from working on appeals, a true nerd's injury).

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Interesting. Looks like this is only 2 hours from Charlotte. Might be able to make it.