sgt127
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I love revolvers. The simplicity. Reliability. I own a bunch of revolvers from 22 up to 44 mag. The 38 and 357 have always been one of my favorite calibers.
if I shoot three cylinder fulls of 357Magnum in a K frame it hurts. Quite a bit. There’s a magic little spot on the first knuckle of my thumb that takes a ferocious beating. I don’t have very big hands, so to keep the gun centered up in the web of my hand, I need to use fairly small grips. I’m okay with 22, 38 special, and 44 special. 357 magnum, 41, 44 magnum are just miserable.
anytime I try to use wraparound grips that offer some padding on that horn, I have to rotate my hand even further to reach the trigger, putting the recoil right into that thumb joint.
However, I can shoot several hundred rounds of 357 Sig out of my P239, and I’m fine.
The slide eats up a lot of the recoil, the single stack grip I can wrap my hand all the way around and still reach the trigger, and the gun is sitting lower in my hand. Creating a radically different recoil impulse compared to a revolver.
Am I the only one?
if I shoot three cylinder fulls of 357Magnum in a K frame it hurts. Quite a bit. There’s a magic little spot on the first knuckle of my thumb that takes a ferocious beating. I don’t have very big hands, so to keep the gun centered up in the web of my hand, I need to use fairly small grips. I’m okay with 22, 38 special, and 44 special. 357 magnum, 41, 44 magnum are just miserable.
anytime I try to use wraparound grips that offer some padding on that horn, I have to rotate my hand even further to reach the trigger, putting the recoil right into that thumb joint.
However, I can shoot several hundred rounds of 357 Sig out of my P239, and I’m fine.
The slide eats up a lot of the recoil, the single stack grip I can wrap my hand all the way around and still reach the trigger, and the gun is sitting lower in my hand. Creating a radically different recoil impulse compared to a revolver.
Am I the only one?