Range Results for a 3 Month Shooter

[chiltech500]

Had to try out new fiber optic sights on my 686 4" barrel with Hogue checkered wood grips.

I love our S/A, I'm not god enough with my trigger pull in D/A. A work in progress.

 

[H Richard]

Good double action groups come with practice. Even after 30 years if I lay off DA shooting very long, my groups open up. Take that target and hold it up in front of your chest. Are you concerned about hitting an attacker?

 

[OLDSTER]

Good start ! Keep at it. Accurate, consistant DA will come with experience. I, like H Richard, will see my DA groups open up if I lay off for a month or so. And I've been shooting revolvers competitively and for recreation for 40 years.

 

[CGT80]

I am working on my double action skills as well. I have only owned a revolver of my own for a year. I practice on a steel target at about 20 yards. The body of the target is 10"x10" and it has a 5" cutout with a plate behind that will swing up and then slap the back of the bigger plate when hit, so a 5" target at 60 feet. Last time out, I managed to put a cylinder full of ammo on the 5" plate without missing, a few times. Missing 1 out of a cylinder is pretty common for me. The flier hits the border of the 10" plate.

My revolver is a 460 8 3/8" barrel. I practice with 45lc 230 lrn at 7xx fps and 460 270 SAA HP cast at 1,000 fps. I can't use my medium loads for that target. Even the 270 grain bullet is beating up the 3/8" mild steel.

Single action is much easier. I don't even feel the trigger move when I set it off. The double action feels like it must be over 10 pounds of pull.

My dad has a 38 spl. smith, but I am just not a fan of that particular gun. The grip is not comfortable and the barrel is only around 3 or 4 inches.

I would love to have a 629 and whatever the equivalent would be in 357 mag. I have plenty of 38/357 bullets to use up. Maybe that's an excuse for a new gun.

 

[qrachel]

Learning To Shoot & Making Progress

Dear Chilteck:

I've been shooting for about 2+ months now and my DA groups were a bit loose to say the least. My coach worked on my breathing, capturing the sight picture, targeting and squeezing off the shot.

In one session with my 617 22LR 6" barrel groups for DA went to less than four inches and my SA groups to about 2" at 5 and 7 yards. It really made a huge difference instantly by getting my rhythm more disciplined from shot to sight picture recapture, target alignment to squeezing off the next shot.

Essentially, as I recapture the sight picture I begin breathing out and as the target comes into the sight picture I hold my breath, acquire the target, hold and squeeze off the shot in one flowing process. Of course, about 1/2 the time I still have to breath again and reacquire the target, but all-in-all I am getting to where the flow is becoming natural.

Hope this helped; it made an instantaneous improvement in my results after dry firing about 20 times (with snap caps) and then resuming shooting.

Also, I've found having a coach is so helpful and my progress is really amazing because of him, at least from my limited perspective.

R

 

[Redlegvzv]

As everyone says, DA groups take practice and work. And time. Yours show fine progress and as someone else said, imagine that shot group as someone's chest -- your shooting is plenty effective.
My DA groups with my S&W 625JM at 24 feet:

 

[chiltech500]

thanks for the advice