Originally Posted by
RevolverRob
Like Caleb, when I was shooting wheelies a lot and practicing a lot (before I moved to Chi-Town). I was dry-firing FASTS - in the low 5s (no concealment) and live-firing in the high 5s and low 6s regularly (from concealment). That was running a GP100 with a belt mounted HKS and medium-power .38s. My par on reloads from belt line was 2.5 and moving down (concealed) (dryfire, I got as quick as 2.1). My best ever live fire was 5.55 (that was not cold, and not from concealment), but I never could repeat anything that low again and my average was about 6.3 cold from concealment.
I think it is possible to run sub-5 FASTs with a loader-fed wheelie, but I think it needs to be a big gun (e.g., 627), moderate power load (~800-900fps .38), and probably a Comp III or Jetloader. And it wouldn't hurt if you did it from ICORE-type gear. But then you're basically defeating the purpose of the FAST. My perspective is a 6.5-second revo-based FAST from concealment gear is extremely good, anything below that is getting damn good. (And I'm not just saying that, because I couldn't reliably get below 6 from concealment. I'm saying that, because it took a TON of work to get reliably below 6.5. I spent about 14-months doing nothing but FAST-oriented dryfire/livefire reps.)