One hand ?

[Buford57]

When I was younger and dumber, I had an H&R Topper slug gun (12 ga, 3") with a 20" barrel. This wasn't one of the new heavy barrel jobs, just a standard model with a short barrel and rifle sights.

Inspired by True Grit I decided to try a one-handed shot with a heavy goose load ala Rooster.

I found the gun about 10 feet behind me, barrel first in a snow bank, open and the fired shell another 3 feet back.

But I do practice one-handed shooting with handguns, even the big ones.

 

[mnshutterbug]

I'm still quite new at this sport but the other day while shooting my SD9-VE, I found that my accuracy, which admittedly isn't that great yet, is the same one handed or two handed. This was out to just 25 feet. At 50 feet, neither method is very accurate yet but I have shot only about 200 rounds this far. I probably need to still experiment further with a few hundred more rounds. If I find there still isn't any difference in accuracy, I may as well stick to one handed as it seems more natural.

 

[Jebus35745]

Shoot mostly one handed after years of bullseye, go to 2 handed in some kind of action shooting. Our club shoots an 8 week double action only match which is fun. Open sights and one handed shot slow, timed and rapid. We have abt 30 shooters that enjoy the match. Larry

 

[MajorD]

Traditional one handed bullseye of course is one handed, most "modern" "action" type shooting is two handed and pretty much all fundamental combat pistol training is done two handed.
Big however- some people I have trained with ( professional trainers) have analyzed gunfight footage from police dash cams surveillance videos and such and find in many close encounters, despite the predominant training in two handed shooting many of these videos reveal the use of only one hand. Practicing with one hand both primary and nondominant hand is a real good idea

 

[fredj338]

Traditional one handed bullseye of course is one handed, most "modern" "action" type shooting is two handed and pretty much all fundamental combat pistol training is done two handed.
Big however- some people I have trained with ( professional trainers) have analyzed gunfight footage from police dash cams surveillance videos and such and find in many close encounters, despite the predominant training in two handed shooting many of these videos reveal the use of only one hand. Practicing with one hand both primary and nondominant hand is a real good idea

Mostly because the avg LEO doesn't practice what they were taught. In a crisis situation, you will sink to your practiced skill level. So yes, good practice is essential to good shooting.