@45dotACP and @Borderland
I shot the 856 yesterday, and it’s a sheer delight! It’s very soft shooting, and entirely accurate at 10 yards. I shot a box of Remington Golden Saber .38 +P, along with a box of Federal .38 FMJ 130 grains. I just love it!
Dry firing makes my wife nervous, mostly because I tell her there’s one round in the cylinder …lol!
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I am loving these little things, blame DB, Wayne and Bryan! Can’t wait for SC snub roundup again this fall! For the average earthling, as DB says these are great. They take some effort, but it helps you all around! I have found each 3 to 5oz in weight is noticeable, both from a carry standpoint and recoil standpoint. Also don’t discount the weight of your grips. Depends if you want it lighter in weight or heavier for improved recoil control. The grips can vary anywhere from about 1 to 3.5 oz depending. For the super lights I prefer .22. .32 long and mag are great in the 13 to 15oz guns, .38 are awesome in my 640 and Sp101.
Just be practical, think about the purpose. 0 to 6 yards they are pretty accurate, moving out to 10 on a B8 takes some concentration. 25 on a B8 bull is doable. Heck we were hitting 8” steel at 50 yards at the round up. They take work, they will make you accountable and a better shooter overall.
I tried the Hammre Forge high grip, but I'm back to the Altamont Altai with room for my pinky. I shoot noticeably better when I have a pinky on the grip.
I shot my old 442 today with a set of the hamreforge grips. While they feel amazing in the hand, they beat the hell out of the web of my hand if I don't have a vice grip on them. I did shoot slightly better than the uncle mike's boot grips, and the gun moved around less in rapid fire. I think if I padded the left side of the grips at the top a little better they would be the best grips I have had on any j-frame.
Not all snubs are 38/357
I bought this Charter Arms 32 at the show today, used from the 80s but looks brand new. Lockup is wicked tight. 6 shots and good trigger. IDK if it's 32 mag or just S&WL, came with the Bianchi holster. $225 OTD. Let's see if that's better than the 642
1976 was the first tome I shot a center fired revolver
a S&W 36 with a 3 inch barrel…(pic below) I shot snubbies alot over the years , shooting a snubbie teaches trigger control , especially with DAO
Its 32 Long .. the older 32 H&R are built on Bulldog frames (44 Spl size )Not all snubs are 38/357
I bought this Charter Arms 32 at the show today, used from the 80s but looks brand new. Lockup is wicked tight. 6 shots and good trigger. IDK if it's 32 mag or just S&WL, came with the Bianchi holster. $225 OTD. Let's see if that's better than the 642
That .32 Charter looks like fun. Hope it works well!
On my uglier plastic end of snubbery, I took the 22LR Ruger LCR out for a walk and ran a cold (both literally and figuratively) course of fire through my state's entire police handgun qual. slightly out of order. I shot the 25 yard stage first to mark hits/misses and then the rest. One shot was dropped a hair off my target at 25 but would have been on the state's silhouette. Still docking myself a miss. I bobbled my reload with numb hands and rushed a post reload shot to barely drop off my target on that stage despite it turning out I still had plenty of time. That would also have hit the state's silhouette but docking a miss. The weak-hand-only stage saw me yank a trigger press and drop a shot barely off the target for my third miss and a healthy passing score in the nineties. I was using the headbox as my target zone on the support hand stage despite the whole body being the target as writ and would have been a hit if aiming for the high center chest but chose the head and buggered it so still ate the miss.
Then shot five 5-shot groups at ten yards on paper dessert plates using as many different loads. After that, I shot two to three of each as remained in my pocket versus dropped in the snow at 25 yards since all showed promise, walking back and forth to the target between each load to mark hits and note point of impact. Remington Viper is slated for further vetting and likely inclusion on the list of substitute standard carry loads. Federal Punch remains unimpressive enough and just enough off on POI while also being hated by most of my other .22s to fail out of selection.
As a note regarding Aguila Super Maximum in the flat point solid variant, a friend's Beretta Bobcat blows the bullet skirt out to nearly 35 caliber and punches huge wadcutter-like holes in paper as a result. Out of the LCR, it behaves normally; leaving me thinking that the cylinder gap and forcing cone iron it down to behave. The Bobcat seems to uncork from the muzzle at a high enough pressure to turn the bullets into little Badminton shuttlecocks.
Anyway, I hiked a DAO snub with "hard to see" fixed sights, "heavy" trigger, and "only" two-finger grip a mile out barebooting on crusty snow and shot a 25 yard string cold while facing direct sun in my unshaded eyes plus snow glare and ungloved hands already chilled to sluggishness. If the sights were really bad, trigger actually difficult to roll through, or boot grip too short to control, I think conditions would have been perfect to show shortcomings. Instead, I had a fun couple hours in the woods and earned the beer I dug out of the snow before heading home.
I tried the Hammre Forge high grip, but I'm back to the Altamont Altai with room for my pinky. I shoot noticeably better when I have a pinky on the grip.
Were they the Spegals or the AFR's?
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