Two-gun shooting; Anyone tried it?

I do it from time to time on my property in northern Michigan. I have a loaded stainless Springfield 1911, and the WW2 version of the same gun. Accuracy is of course low, but man is it fun!

I like to play with it ocassionally.
i do a lot of hip shooting and out to 7 I can make 85% hit with strong hand and 55% with the weak one.
I use a M10 and a M13

Sam

For Cowboy Action Shooting they have "Gunslingers"

And from what I understand they have to draw both guns and shoot left, right, left, ect...

That sounded very hard to me so I gave it a try at the range, it is hard but it's also very fun.

I wasn't fast, that's for sure

Find you a piece of land where someone's thrown out an old washer or dryer, refridg, even an old car door or something. Use it as the bad guy at about 25-30 yards, be Rambo man, see what you can do!

Disclaimer, those items, when in someone's front or back yard are not good choices and don't count.

I've tried it with a pair of Kimber .45ACP M1911s. Let's just say that it was alot of fun but........not very accurate.

Like everyone said, it is fun. I did it with a pair of Beretta 92s. I made a lot of noise, but did not get many holes in the target. I shot at a coffee can on the ground at 20 feet or so. Rapid fire strong hand doing this I can probably hit 12 out of fifteen, weak hand rapid fire, maybe 10 of fifteen. Both hands rapid fire probably matched my weak hand score of 10, but out of 30.

In any serious situation the second gun would stay in my holster for a "New York reload", or hang at my side waiting for the first gun to reach slide lock. I hope if I am ever in a situation that serious I have a rifle or shotgun instead.

DO IT,,, it is fun, and your results may vary.

I've tried it with various subguns and pistols...not quite as effective as in counter strike .

Now if REALLY effective two handed shooting, you might one to try this thing...NOT.

I went to a bowling pin match.

For a contribution to a local charity you got to usa a pair of .44 caliber Black powder revolvers to try and hit five bowling pins on the table.

Loud, fun, smoky and I didn't hit much. Even better, someone else cleaned and loaded the pieces.

Geoff
Who has stuck with fixed ammunition since.

Only at an arcade. I didnt do very well.

Note: I was playing a first person shooter game, I didnt shoot the arcade up, just one screen with imaginary bullets

I've done it with two Glock 19's, and my accuracy went way down. I've also dumped two mags simultaneously with my full-auto Uzi carbine and my brother's full-auto Uzi carbine. My accuracy was horrendous, but I looked cool doing it.

I tried it in the desert once, used both of my 1911's. I ended up pulling the trigger at the same time and the recoil of the gun caused the gun to bang together.

I didn't try it anymore after that. 16 rds and I missed as empty propane tank at 15 yrds.

Last Man Standing ...


... but Bruce Willis made it look so easy ....

Ive used two Mosin 91/30's at the same time, needless to say it isnt very accurate and what kicks more than one mosin? TWO! lol

But I can shoot from the hip quite well and put it on the paper at 50 yards using various rifles, and under 7 yards it isnt very hard with a pistol.

Tried it with two Glocks, couldn't hit anything. There was a very funny thread about it on the Firing Line a long time ago. I can't find the link right now.

SOT II
I saw and handled that kind of setup at our last Gun Show.
Pretty trippy.

I've seen people ride a unicycle on a highwire and juggle bowling balls. I'm sure you can shoot two guns accuratly if you really wanted to.

Did it with a .44 Desert Eagle in one hand and a .50 Desert Eagle in the other...

then again with a pair of 6" Dan Wesson .357's...

MOST fun was with my and my fathers Smitty 637 snubbies...

As said, accuracy sucks... and it is kinda a waste of ammo, but it IS fun!

and when I did it at a range, with the matched pair of Dan Wessons, I MIGHT have looked like an idiot, but then so did all (and I mean ALL) the other people at the range... since they all came over and asked to try it...

12 or 13 people awaiting their turn to try it out... some were LEO's... and SOMEONE went and bought me a couple hundred rounds of Winchester JSP's to use...

all in all, it was GREAT fun... not that I'd wanna do it every time i went.

I have wanted a pair of .45s since I was old enough to attend a Saturday Matinee, and tall enough to give the girl in the ticket booth a dime (which was the admission price back then). Finally, at 70, I have realized my dream - a pair of .45 Colt Nountain Guns, 625-6 mods. A friend has a 50 acre farm, with a cut-bank one acre hill in the middle which is his private range backstop. I can achieve adequate speed with either hand, and ALL rounds fired have hit the hill ... so far. This is all for fun, hip shots and point shooting, but like any other type of shooting, it improves with practice. Again, all for fun, but the practice has lessened the time it takes, on a serious draw, to get the front sight lined up. Puts a nice new "edge" on your serious shooting, just by adding to your familiarity with the guns. Weak-hand practice, even this sort, is never a waste of ammo, either.

Yeah, but it doesn't work too well. Took me forever to drop the 6 steel plates (between 20 and 30 yards).

It's more photogenic than fun; hitting stuff is fun

Heck yeah! And as others have said, yes, it's a waste of ammo, and yes, it's very inaccurate. I don't care...it's fun. My Kimber .45 in one hand, Steyr 9mm in the other, and shortly after 22 rounds downrange.

throwing a little 'gangsta style' into the mix doesn't work too well with 2 guns...they tend to smack into each other (or nearly so!).

when shooting two handguns at the same time, I've noticed two things:

shooting one hand at a time (ie - left-right-left-right, etc) is the most accurate.

when shooting both hands at the same time (ala The Matrix) my dominant hand tends to take over.

Like everyone said... It's a lot of fun. Go give it a try!