Shooting a Snub
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sac-gunslinger - I've point shot enough snakes at spitting distance to be comfortable at short range with my carry pieces. I keep my practice to distances where there is the greatest room for improvement.
Best Regards,
ADP3
Best Regards,
ADP3
No shots are really impossible. I saw a guy hit a 55 gallon drum with a snub nosed Ruger Security Six at what was probably 300 or 350 yards. It took three shots. One for elevation, one for windage, and WHAM! It was fun to watch him walk the rounds in 1, 2, 3!
Heck, I hit a 140 yard steel target at a cowboy match in one shot from a 4.5" Vaquero. Aim, raise for elevation, fire. BIIIING!!!! They're not all miracle shots.
***GRJ***
Heck, I hit a 140 yard steel target at a cowboy match in one shot from a 4.5" Vaquero. Aim, raise for elevation, fire. BIIIING!!!! They're not all miracle shots.
***GRJ***
Shorty 45 MK2
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Most the time it's under 15 yards, but will take it to 25 yards every now and then. At 25 yards I'm doing good to get two out of five shots on a 8" paper plate from the old 642. So I have lots of room to improve.
mc5aw
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1) Research the distance generally accepted to be the average range from which a person will have to defend himself during a violent encounter. It's not 50' - 75'.
2) Try shooting shorter distances for speed and accuracy, like IDPA. Until you master your firearm at short distances, you may need to rethink your opinion that shorter distances aren't much of a challenge.
M3Stuart
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I shoot past 10 yards.....
I shoot past 10 yards easy with a snub every time I miss a target at 5 yards which pretty often. People like hitchcok45 on youtube make me sick. Ringing gongs at 80 yards with 2" barrels.
I shoot past 10 yards easy with a snub every time I miss a target at 5 yards which pretty often. People like hitchcok45 on youtube make me sick. Ringing gongs at 80 yards with 2" barrels.
sac-gunslinger
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And that is a very wise practice. My point was that folks need that close-in practice as well.
We cannot just assume that we will do well just because the target is closer. I think that has been the official assumption for years. When I was instructing, the mandated distances were 7, 15, and 25 yards. Our NRA instructor's course had the shortest distance as 3 yards. I have had a few students comment that they were unaccustomed to using their firearm when someone was "right on top of them." No ranges that I am familiar with allow shooters the latitude to practice at one yard but that is where we can probably expect to need to use our firearms.
With my degenerative peripheral neuropathy causing profound weakness in my right hand and slowed nerve conduction in my left hand I was quite pleased with my last range trip.
Not sure of the distance but it was about that far away.
I'm not the bald guy in the hoody, I'm the long haired guy in the grey shirt. I was shooting my 442.
I think I got him.
I just wonder what I would have done if both my hands worked right.
Not sure of the distance but it was about that far away.
I'm not the bald guy in the hoody, I'm the long haired guy in the grey shirt. I was shooting my 442.
I think I got him.
I just wonder what I would have done if both my hands worked right.
BrianE
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With my degenerative peripheral neuropathy causing profound weakness in my right hand and slowed nerve conduction in my left hand I was quite pleased with my last range trip.
Not sure of the distance but it was about that far away.
I'm not the bald guy in the hoody, I'm the long haired guy in the grey shirt. I was shooting my 442.
I think I got him.
I just wonder what I would have done if both my hands worked right.
Nice shoot'n Snubby...
Thirty years ago I did some short range practice at 3, 5 and 7 yards firing through the pocket of jackets and coats. After the first cylinder full I went back into the house and put on 2 sweat shirts under the jacket to cushion the muzzle blast and flash and in the case of a polyester coat - flames.. A trip to the Salvation Army on bag day (everything you can stuff into a grocery bag cost only $5) gave me enough coats to get in a fair amount of practice. Thankfully I've never had to fire through a pocket but practice for every eventuality does not hurt.
Best Regards,
ADP3
Best Regards,
ADP3
flintsghost
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I shoot all of my pistols at 25 and 50 and I check them out at 100 just to see how much hold over it takes. That includes a lot of big bores in revolvers and semi's and my carrying pieces...36, 60, 637, 638, 66 2.5", and 696. The only pistol I consistently keep at 15 and less is my Rohrbaugh R9S.
I used to shoot handguns regularly out to 300m at Ft. Benning at English range. On dry days the sandy soil made "walking in" rounds fairly easy. Once you had the proper hold over aiming point it's just a matter of trigger control and sight alignment. Revolvers generally fared better than autos, but that may have more to do with the ammo than the platform. Usually. Have had more grossly inaccurate pistols than revolvers.
Snubbies are as accurate as longer barreled standard handguns (not counting match tuned items!). It's just that short sight radius makes 'em unforgiving.
As far as the long shots making one unsuited for close-in and dirty work, well...sounds more like a lack of flexiblity in the individual and his shooting routine...How many of y'all shoot on your back? Or contorted around or under cover? Or with only one finger and thumb around the grip? (I used to test Glocks that way to ensure that "limp wristing wasn't going to be a functional problem for the customer). Or at night, for that matter?
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