krs
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Yeah, I was a competitive bullseye shooter for several years, certified rifle snd pistol marksmanship instructor for much of that time and can say with surety that many shooters do not apply the principles of sight alignment with anything like the attention required in the strict target shooting endeavors.
Bullseye shooting IS practically useless except as background when it comes to defensive shooting since in those SD activities the target must be the object of closest attention. I guess it could be that a longer barrel with the attendant sight radius may be a defensive shooter's easier way to the target but I'd submit that it is not sight radius that makes it so but rather pointability. As an extension of the eye/arm/gun mechanism the closer the bullet exit to the target the better the shot, but that's no way to shoot a 2700 point match.
On the other hand a defensive shooter needs quick action and easy presentation of his or her weapon. For that this pistol cannot be ideal because of it's sheer size and that's where I came from in suggesting that the OP think carefully about why such a pistol is considered. Certainly they're great looking things but many great looking things are kept mostly for display purposes.
The snubbie troubled friend may be anticipating his recoil too much? The one thing that the bigger pistols do for some people is dampen the effect of their flinches somewhat but to solve that problem by using a heavier longer gun is pulling the mule with the cart, it'll never resolve the actual shooting error. A little of the blind reload - partially full cylinder exercizes maybe? Where the person does not know if the pistol will fire with each shot. I've seen it work miracles, or seem to, when the shooter realizes that the jump he's seeing his sights make on an empty chamber is the same jump they take on a loaded one. First he's got to be taught to look at his sights though and sometimes that's the hardest thing of all.
Bullseye shooting IS practically useless except as background when it comes to defensive shooting since in those SD activities the target must be the object of closest attention. I guess it could be that a longer barrel with the attendant sight radius may be a defensive shooter's easier way to the target but I'd submit that it is not sight radius that makes it so but rather pointability. As an extension of the eye/arm/gun mechanism the closer the bullet exit to the target the better the shot, but that's no way to shoot a 2700 point match.
On the other hand a defensive shooter needs quick action and easy presentation of his or her weapon. For that this pistol cannot be ideal because of it's sheer size and that's where I came from in suggesting that the OP think carefully about why such a pistol is considered. Certainly they're great looking things but many great looking things are kept mostly for display purposes.
The snubbie troubled friend may be anticipating his recoil too much? The one thing that the bigger pistols do for some people is dampen the effect of their flinches somewhat but to solve that problem by using a heavier longer gun is pulling the mule with the cart, it'll never resolve the actual shooting error. A little of the blind reload - partially full cylinder exercizes maybe? Where the person does not know if the pistol will fire with each shot. I've seen it work miracles, or seem to, when the shooter realizes that the jump he's seeing his sights make on an empty chamber is the same jump they take on a loaded one. First he's got to be taught to look at his sights though and sometimes that's the hardest thing of all.
