Good memory. Roy Bergman was trained by S&W and there were no spring kits or other bull used in a factory type of duty action. His action jobs were very good, and 100% reliable for duty use with any ammo. He used to put on a little show for every recruit class. It went something like this:
The class would be shooting B27s and invariably one recruit would say, "my sights are off" as an explanation for why his group looked like a shotgun pattern. Roy would stop the line, call everyone over and have the recruit repeat the excuse. Roy would say, well let me see, after which he would have everyone put on ear muffs so he could fire the recruit's issue revolver. He would hold that weapon out one handed in the old target shooter's stance, and he would slowly stroke that trigger, in DOUBLE ACTION, and fire a complete cylinder. As no hits were observed on the target, the recruit would generally give it the old, "I told you so," with all heads nodding. Imagine the embarrassment when Bergman would flip the switch, run the target back from the 25 yard line and, as the target approached the shooting position, all of the recruits would notice the 6 holes clustered all together in one ragged hole in THE MINIATURE B27 SCORING REFERENCE IN THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER. I never would have believed it had I not seen it myself.
At Bergman's funeral, his good friend, Paul Corbin said that Bergman could "shoot a gnat out of your hands at 75 paces, and I [Corbin] know because I used to hold the gnat."
The story about Bergman shooting the highest score in the history of the FBI National Academy program (the one that local Chiefs or other officers get to go to) is true as far as I know, although I am not sure if the record still stands. When that story is told, a second part is usually added, to the effect that J. Edgar Hoover was so upset by this feat that no member of the MSHP was invited back to the National Academy program until after Hoover's death. The second part of the story is NOT true, as I understand it.
Bergman's abilities with a revolver are attributed, in part at least, to the size of his hands. His hands were powerful and almost as big as Bill Jordan's, whose hand size is legendary (I mean, who else in the world really has to add a filler BEHIND the backstrap so that the revolver can be held properly straight in line with the forearm, and still have plenty of finger leverage left so that controlling that double action trigger is effortless.)
Bergman is on the right. Picture was taken when we had lunch together just a few months before his very untimely death. May he rest in peace.