Here is my issue with all of that. I don’t care about shooting them in a sport. I have my mantra of Combat Mindset,Marksmanship and Gun Handling/Tactics. That is totally different from Match Mindset, Marksmanship and Gun Handling/Tactics. The problem comes in when folks want to run the Match stuff in a combatives environment and vice versa. I have seen way to many cases of cylinders locked by thumbs and fingers, gloves, trash grips either because of a crap draw or post reload....especially when that reload is done from a asymmetric position in darkness. All sorts of fingers and body parts causing all sorts of issues. Then we have the crap blowing out the side never being an issue on the range right up to the stress stuff and duty Ammo and bleeding happens. After all the shootings I investigated and all the research I have done the one thing that rears it’s big fat Murphy head all the time is crap grip. With the revolver a thumbs forward crap grip, or fingers in the way of the trigger causes some serious issues.
So, if it comes down to the priority being to win shooting sports, do what wins shooting sports. Keep in mind that I was a shooting sports guy especially during my revolver as a primary carry gun days. I figured out that what I did to win trophies was not always conducive to winning two way fights in chaos with Murphy as a judge and with a significant say in the final standings. I am not dogmatic at all in sport shooting events because it is where a ton of experimentation takes place and it is a great place to make progress. The issue comes in that we find some things do not translate to uncontrolled environments. Another factor is you may be fighting with someone to keep possession of the thing. That has a tendency to put fingers into places they can cause issues.