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Now my time was packing a model 19 in the 70's on a sheriff's department.
We routinely trained with what at the time, politically incorrect, was called a mexican quail shoot. you stood in a circle, and at the whistle turned and fired.
You had six six inch diameter targets, numbered one to six in varied order and distance. You had to start with one and go to six. Had to keep firing if you missed one at the same target. You had to do this with a tactical reload in less than 15 seconds. My average time was somewhere around 8 to 9 seconds hitting all six targets twice.
I have a friend that from a holstered postion can hit six targets at about seven yards in about 1.30 seconds. He also took rob leatham one time in competition too.
You might not believe it until you see it done.
I like high cap mags, but don't anyone ever tell you are undergunned with a revolver if you are proficient enough.
the 125 grain jcp was a late bloomer to magnum pistols, and they the pistols that is were designed around that 158grain bullet.
While in recent years my toys have been more in the .41magnum and up range, to this day i don't think there is anything around that i would be uncomfortable facing with a model 19 with only six rounds. And a couple of speed loaders.
I might add at the time in the 70's, the instructors i had preached proficiency, skill, with a handgun rather than spray and pray. A lot of it has to do with mindset by the way
I was going to add i would probably use the 158grain, which you have already chosen. A lot of this for penetration reasons on car bodies, glass, barricade, etc.
Now my time was packing a model 19 in the 70's on a sheriff's department.
We routinely trained with what at the time, politically incorrect, was called a mexican quail shoot. you stood in a circle, and at the whistle turned and fired.
You had six six inch diameter targets, numbered one to six in varied order and distance. You had to start with one and go to six. Had to keep firing if you missed one at the same target. You had to do this with a tactical reload in less than 15 seconds. My average time was somewhere around 8 to 9 seconds hitting all six targets twice.
I have a friend that from a holstered postion can hit six targets at about seven yards in about 1.30 seconds. He also took rob leatham one time in competition too.
You might not believe it until you see it done.
I like high cap mags, but don't anyone ever tell you are undergunned with a revolver if you are proficient enough.
the 125 grain jcp was a late bloomer to magnum pistols, and they the pistols that is were designed around that 158grain bullet.
While in recent years my toys have been more in the .41magnum and up range, to this day i don't think there is anything around that i would be uncomfortable facing with a model 19 with only six rounds. And a couple of speed loaders.
I might add at the time in the 70's, the instructors i had preached proficiency, skill, with a handgun rather than spray and pray. A lot of it has to do with mindset by the way
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