Bragging Rights...

my 45lc blackhawk. it is accurate and i actually shoot it quite well.

murf

I have shot the handgun most of my life. As a youth I had ambitions of becoming an exhibition shooter and began practicing fancy shots. I have shot a .38 Special bullet (in a Ruger .357 Blackhawk) end to end through an empty 12 ga. shotgun shell. One time I fired a .38 bullet into an empty .38 special case, this at maybe five yards or so, up close. And at 7 1/2 yards have cut playing cards in two. When everything was just right I could cut the string of a helium filled balloon then bust the balloon as it rose. I tired aerial shooting while in the Army, but lost my practice range before I developed any skill at that. I have shot the course for metallic silhouette knocking down the rams at 200 meters.

I shot on two pistol teams while in the Army, a small bore team, using Ruger Mk. I's, and a center fire team with issue .45 M1911s.

To keep up this level of skill requires frequent practice, which I am no longer able to do. Still fairly good, though, but age does take its toll.




The best shot I ever made afield was around 1981 or so, when I killed a groundhog at 110 yards with a Ruger Super Blackhawk.

As to which gun with which I am most proficient, it a Single Action, mostly a Ruger:



Bob Wright

1911.

HiPower. Most accurate 9mm pistol I've ever shot. It was a Luftwaffe issue one.

Then G17, though I've never owned one. It's just that every one of them I've shot, I've done very, very well.

With my Redhawk I could put all 6 in a 8" paper plate at 100 yds., consistantly.

I shot a grouse out of the air with my Trooper 6".

Im most proficient with my revolvers shot in single action. If sandbags are allowed, my DW 15-2 always (usually ) has 6 rounds touching at 25 yards open sights. My BHP is one of the last autoloaders I own that will come close to my six shooters in the slow fire accuracy department.

Most proficient would be Browning Hi-Power Mk.II. Trigger and sights have been perfect out of the box as has been reliability and durability. For top scores in terms of accuracy then I would go with my Colt Combat Commander as done by Colt's Custom Gun Shop. With 185 gr. match ammo it can run with the big boys (like a Colt Gold Cup), all day long.

LCR .357 & Kimber 1911 Custom II 45ACP

Glock 34. Too big to carry, so I carry a G 19 or a shield 9.

I'm fairly proficient with any handgun, I've shot a lot of rounds out of many many handguns over the last 35 years or so.
My claim to fame would probably be the ability to shoot short barreled guns with minimal drop off in accuracy.
Here a while back I took to shooting our informal bullseye league with pocket guns and shot a different gun every week for 7 weeks LCP, 1903 Colt, hammerless LCR, LC9s, Charter Bulldog, KAHR CW45 and a 2 1/2" model 19. The COF includes 20 rounds at 25 yards on a B27 silhouette I averaged 490 out of 500 for the league which means I put more than 1/2 my rounds in the 10 ring at 25 yards as I did have a couple 8s with the LCP.

Here are the first 7 rounds I shot at 7 yards from my LCP when I first got it.

I generally shoot slow fire with pistols for accuracy, standing.
Best results have been with a s&w625jm-about a 1" group @ 15 yds (happened only 1 time!). I did shoot a 1-liter water bottle @ 70yds with my SBH .44mag a while back.
Recently I've been shooting a P938 a lot. Paper plate sized groups (usually) @ 25 yds. That's with a lot of practice!
I shoot reloads exclusively in my revolvers and mostly in my auto's. Reduced recoil loads help!

entropy said:

... I shot a grouse out of the air with my Trooper 6". ...

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Interesting. In the farmhouse entrance, on the wall above the long table, hanging from the set of antlers was, what Grandpop explained, a set of grouse tail feathers.

He said that while he was still living in in Snowmass (early 1900s), he was riding along and a grouse spooked-up. On instinct, he quickly drew his revolver and took the shot ...

Every time that I heard him tell the story to someone who asked about the grouse tail, he always pointed out that it was a Luck Shot.

Unfortunately, I did not ask about the revolver ... but I was probably only about 7 at the time.

My best friend can see grouse in the woods like they're wearing blaze orange due to colorblindness, and he's a former State Trap Sub-junior champ, so to make the grouse hunting more exciting, and more fair to the grouse, I'd shoot at them with my pistol, usually miss, and he'd' hit 'em flying. I saw one on a downed tree about to jump, (you know how they drop the wingtips just before they jump to take off?) so I pushed the point of aim up about 3 feet and hit it in mid-air. Maybe I shoulda kept the tail fan.

To an extent, aGlock is a Glock is a Glock. My favorite through the years is a gen3 Glock 23. I carried it on duty for a number of years and it shoots where I aim. I have cleaned a number of qualification courses with it. Summer months,I carry my Glock 43 and the familiarity of the Glocks carries over and I maintain proficiency even though it's a different gun.

So I forgot to add, I frustrate my brother on occasion, as I can regularly hit bowling pins at 50 yards with my Glock 23.

My Sig X6, as accurate as a centerfire bullseye pistol, but with 20 rounds.

My three screw Super Blackhawk has nice big sights, a very soft trigger, and a 7.5" barrel. These go a long way towards making up for my inadequacies as a shooter.

My favorite shooting feat was close to 30 years ago. I was using my first "real" handgun, a 4" Taurus Model 66 (357). It was always a good gun for me until it was eventually stolen. Anyway, I was standing around outside with my in-laws way out in the country. There must have been a dozen of us out there. Some of the men were plinking with handguns out into an empty field. Somebody tossed an apple out there and I figured it was my turn to shoot.

My first shot split it in half. Then I shot each of the halves, and then shot three of the resulting smaller pieces. Everyone looked at me with profound respect. I just passed it off as nbd, like it was just ordinary shooting. Hah! It was just a streak of luck. I couldn't have replicated it if I used up a whole box of ammo. But I sure did enjoy my reputation as being a phenomenally good shot.

I had built a target stand with PVC and was shooting with a buddy. I was struggling to connect on any shots with my Glock 21 and my buddy was giving me a hard time about it.

The stand had caught a stray round of break Bird shot though and was mostly just the two uprights left.

I took out my M19 and at about 20yards lopped the top six inches off one of the 3/4" PVC pipes with a DA shot of some warm hsndloads.

Then I did it again.

Then I managed to act like I wasn't surprised at all.

This was with my Springfield Range Officer 9mm.

Its not a Brag if you can do it. That's what I was told a long-long time ago. Current proficiency would be with a S&W MP9-or-9c either one over the last several years. In my Bullseye days a Clark set up Colt 1911 Govt model, S&W52 and S&W41. I did surprisingly will with all three. My best revolver work was done with the S&W M15. I had (5) all at one time.

With a S&W 17 I once shot a redtail hawk from my pickup at 110 steps.

Like others, you are normally the most proficient with that which you are shooting & using the most. At this time it's my 45 Ruger.

Mn Fats said:

Im most proficient with my revolvers shot in single action. If sandbags are allowed, my DW 15-2 always (usually ) has 6 rounds touching at 25 yards open sights. My BHP is one of the last autoloaders I own that will come close to my six shooters in the slow fire accuracy department.

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I haven't gotten to shoot much for a while but a fellow on another forum I frequent put up a challenge a good while back. It was to put 5 out of 5 rounds on a playing card at 25 yards with a handgun without using a rest. I tried it with my old pawn shop Dan Wesson model 15-2. I took my 5 shots & when I walked to the target stand I discovered I had one shot perfectly centered on the card. The other 4 shots were touching just under the edge of the card. I believe I flinched every shot after the first shot. I also believe the Dan Wesson revolver is the most accurate handgun I own.

My FN 5.7x28 can put a nice saucer plate group in for me at any distance out to 50 yards. That with it's soft recoil and high capacity magazines lets me be first in a game of tag. Just picked up a 30 round magazine for it. I am sure that with practice, however, that my EDC will get better groups at appropriate pistol ranges. When it does I'll report on it.

(Is there a sticky here somewhere for posting pictures?)

For a semi I like my Hi-Power Practical in 40 S&W. I have shot it a lot. Never had a stovepipe or FTF and it is accurate. Well, it is accurate with my reloads and the PMC Starefires. For a wheel gun my GP is awesome with 180gr XTP's. Just for kicks and giggles we shot it out to 100 yards. It will keep all rounds on a 8X11 paper and will break clay birds most of the time off of a bench, of course.. Love it.

I think it's a dead heat between a 4 5/8" .357 Blackhawk and a 5 1/2" .45 Colt Bisley. The first has adjustable sights, the latter has fixed. The Bisley has had a trigger job, but they are otherwise stock revolvers. I like my 1911, and shoot it well enough, but I'll pick either of the revolvers if the idea is hit where I'm aiming.

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I own a lot of handguns and can generally shoot them all with at least an adequate level of accuracy.
However, my most accurate and the one I shoot best is my S&W 686 Silhouette model with an 8-3/8" barrel.
No problem hitting the 10-12" gong at the 200yd mark at the gun club with a couple of different handloads.

I have a S&W 57 that I can consistently hit empty 12ga hulls with at 25yds. with a handload of 19.5gr of 2400 propelling a 210gr Hornady HP/XTP. My son(younger eyes) shoots this handgun better than I do. He enjoys sticking empty aluminum handgun casings we find at the range in bullet holes in our cardboard backer boards (spent primer facing the line) and shooting them with a variety of handguns. He rarely misses.

I would say my Sig 226 and/or 239.

I have hit frying pans at 240yrds with both (I have video record!) and compete in IDPA and 3 gun with them.

Heck I won a local match with the 239 a month ago. (that's not saying a whole lot but it felt good.)