[ACP230]

Our Independence Day celebration included a range trip. We shot a bunch of different guns, including some large revolvers.
One of the last things we did was to shoot man against man on steel plates with subguns. (They're legal and papered, so don't get your knickers in a twist.)

Two guys faced off against 12 plates with Reisings. After a lot of clattering two plates, one big and one small, were still standing. Both subguns were dry, so I stepped up to the line. I took out my M649, held low center on the big plate and BaClang! it was down. I held the same place on the small place and got the same result.

Snub revolvers can get it done!

My load was Cor-Bon 158 grain LSWCHP. It's stout and no longer made. I won a bunch of it playing trivia at the old Second Chance Bowling Pin Match. It's my carry ammo, so I don't shoot it too often. It works fine when I do, though.

[TonyB]

Yeah,it always bothers me when people call them "belly guns"...like you have to be within arms reach to hit something...just ask Bob Munden,snubbies can do amazing things..the only thing holding them back is us.....I think most people don't practice with their snubs enough(I know I don't) to shoot them well.......note to self...shoot snubby more.....:cool:

[c_yeager]

One of the funnest things about owning a snubby and practicing with it a LOT is being able to hand it off to one of your buddies and let them proceed to miss the target and proclaim your revolver to be "innacurate". In response you get to punch a few really nice holes in the middle of the target.

I can pull this off and im not a particularly good shot. it's just that the learning curve on a snubby is significantly steeper than virtually any other firearm. When it all comes down to it though it's just as accurate as the operator just like any other gun.

[Marshall]

I've got a new Model 60, 357 2 1/8", I'll tell you, it's a tack driver. Funny, that damn bullet hits where you point it. :D

[GeneC]

TonyB, sorry it bothers you that something is called what it was developed for, much like an assault rifle(does that bother you too) , but the simple fact is that the men who cut the barrels and carried them and used them daily that way called them that and it's not like you HAVE to be at arm's length, it just worked out 99% of the time to be that distance.

[jc2]

Hey ACP230 -

If you like the CorBon 158-grain LSWCHP pop over to Buffalo Bore (http://www.buffalobore.com/ammunition/default.htm#38spl). They load a gas-checked 158-grain LSWCHP that will do 1000 fpe out of a two-inch J-frame--everything the CorBon would do and more (but pricey)!

The two-inch J-frames have definitely become "belly guns" for me over the last year--my eyes and their sights/sight radius just don't get along anymore, but I have some fond memories of winning more than a few bets with my "belly gun!"

[bendable]

cool story,

kinda like when a wheeler goes to the range,
and theres four people with twelve, fifteen and two thousand doller custom
1911's
and the wheeler out shoots all of them