Maybe, maybe not... bear in mind S&W made exactly one 942, IIRC. Only reason they didn’t go into production was excessive recoil. And we have at least one member here with 3 9mm 637’s.Originally Posted by GearFondler
Maybe, maybe not... bear in mind S&W made exactly one 942, IIRC. Only reason they didn’t go into production was excessive recoil. And we have at least one member here with 3 9mm 637’s.
Ok I figured this was the best place to get some advice.
Been shooting since 2014 or so, have taken a few training courses etc. I picked up a Ruger LCR .357, and then last year traded down to a LCR .38 because I was only shooting wadcutters. I have been having mixed results lately at the range, and so it occurred to me I have not, really, gotten any instruction in shooting a snub-nosed revolver. At all.
My hands are size M. I have the standard grips that come on the LCR .38. I have experimented a bit and settled on the grip pictured below as the one that seems most "natural" to me. In dry practice, I don't see much jump in the front sight. Shooting, I am able to pass a 5x5 drill typically with 4/5 or 5/5.
Of course, I don't know what I don't know, so if anyone would like to take a look at this grip, and let me know if you see anything obviously wrong with it, please let me know? TIA.
My thumbs may be a lot longer, but shooting that way habitually is a good way to pick up a J frame and end up with a thumb adjacent to the cylinder gap. I got cured of it when I tried a .357 in my 640-1. Fortunately only soot embedded in my skin, not lead.
Jerry has a "How to shoot a revolver" video that's worth watching.
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This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEHNZFTfSD8
It's been awhile, but I think that's the one.
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GRabbed a freeze frame. Mr, Miculek must have big hands, I’m not sure I could do this.
You’ve got pretty decent mitts, and shorter (relatively) thumbs, so you can do the striker-fire grip and make it work.Ok I figured this was the best place to get some advice.
Been shooting since 2014 or so, have taken a few training courses etc. I picked up a Ruger LCR .357, and then last year traded down to a LCR .38 because I was only shooting wadcutters. I have been having mixed results lately at the range, and so it occurred to me I have not, really, gotten any instruction in shooting a snub-nosed revolver. At all.
My hands are size M. I have the standard grips that come on the LCR .38. I have experimented a bit and settled on the grip pictured below as the one that seems most "natural" to me. In dry practice, I don't see much jump in the front sight. Shooting, I am able to pass a 5x5 drill typically with 4/5 or 5/5.
Of course, I don't know what I don't know, so if anyone would like to take a look at this grip, and let me know if you see anything obviously wrong with it, please let me know? TIA.
That said, with compact wheelies, I like to have the strong hand totally in contact with the grip, with the thumb locked down, and the support hand acting in adjunct—sort of like a second TQ on a bleed—to help stop energy leaks.
But don’t take my word for it; take Darryl’s:
”But in the end all of these ideas just manufacture new criminals when the problem isn't a lack of criminals.” -JRB
This is exactly (no really, exactly) what I was taught circa 1988 via the training staff at the San Francisco Sheriff's Dept.
it's not hard- I watched the same training officer impart the info successfully to my then-70+ year-old moderately arthritic grandmother in the mid 1990s. I shot with her several times after that and she had no trouble keeping the grip properly on a 2" barrel model 36 with Pachmayr compact grips.
"If I ever needed to hunt in a tuxedo, then this would be the rifle I'd take." - okie john
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." - Michel De Montaigne
That's how I shoot wheelies and my digits are longish but they're nothing like his. I would not use a thumbs forward grip as on a semiauto.GRabbed a freeze frame. Mr, Miculek must have big hands, I’m not sure I could do this.
“Remember, being healthy is basically just dying as slowly as possible,” Ricky Gervais
Your grip is fine. I hold my LCR with my thumbs forward, and my j-frame, and my 10mm GP100, etc. You missed the giant forum discussion that Darryl and I had about revolver grip methods a while back.Ok I figured this was the best place to get some advice.
Been shooting since 2014 or so, have taken a few training courses etc. I picked up a Ruger LCR .357, and then last year traded down to a LCR .38 because I was only shooting wadcutters. I have been having mixed results lately at the range, and so it occurred to me I have not, really, gotten any instruction in shooting a snub-nosed revolver. At all.
My hands are size M. I have the standard grips that come on the LCR .38. I have experimented a bit and settled on the grip pictured below as the one that seems most "natural" to me. In dry practice, I don't see much jump in the front sight. Shooting, I am able to pass a 5x5 drill typically with 4/5 or 5/5.
Of course, I don't know what I don't know, so if anyone would like to take a look at this grip, and let me know if you see anything obviously wrong with it, please let me know? TIA.
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