dual wielding handguns-any purpose?

[kry_90]

in just about every action shooting movie
there always many people in the movies using two handguns at the same time
of course they have perfect aim and apparently never have to reload
while i know this is far from realistic
I'm just wondering if there is any tactical or realistic benefits
from using two handguns at the same time
i see the reason why some one would carry two handguns
one for a back up or something
but as far as shooting two handguns at the same time
seems very unrealistic

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Movie guns fire blanks and have no recoil. Particularly in scenes where there is a lot of flying through the air, rolling on the ground, etc. there is often a stunt double performing the "shooting" instead of the actor. In many cases nowadays a human does not even wield the guns; everything is done by CGI.

There is validity to the technique of carrying a matched pair of guns and transitioning to the other one when the first is shot empty. Such a tactic is often called a "<fill in name of large American city here> reload."

 

[dagger dog]

Yeah I think you're right , heck Roy and Gene both carried double rigs but I never saw either one shoot them both at the same time

 

[Kman]

Heck, Shane didn't need two guns.

 

[Lurp]

Well if they only have one gun what are you suppossed to do with the other hand while diving through the air shooting?

 

[Diamondback6]

Well, for me having a second loaded iron in the other hand means I can "reload" faster by shifting my attention to the weak-hand gun and continuing the engagement, or if I need suppression-fire or a lot of lead I can do a left-right-left-right-left-right firing sequence,or if a second goblin approaches from the other side I can just bring the closer iron to bear on them--my peripheral-vision's better than normal, and I'm actually working on training myself to shoot using it. Note, though, that I'm not pulling two triggers at once in any of the above examples, and my "targeting focus" is only on one goblin at a time--this just allows me to transfer that focus a bit faster.

As shown in the movies is pure Hollyweird bovine-scatology, though.

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[Isher]

All -

Hell, I thought the other hand was dedicated to the single finger salute!

isher

 

[jpatterson]

I've shot a pair of .22 pistols at the same time: no accuracy was involved. Pure Rambo fun

 

[Diamondback6]

Mine was 1911 .45 strongside, S&W 9mm weak--think I got a few .45-caliber hits on the paper that string, of course I was then shooting for a "Debunking the Myth" illustration for a class a friend was teaching.

 

[X-Rap]

Heck I thought everyone shot with a gun in each hand

 

[CWL]

If you watch those movies more carefully, you'll notice that the action star never has both barrels aimed in the same direction. Sure helps when the on-screen bad guys aren't shooting real bullets.

Movies are for entertainment, not for education. If that's all it took, every American would already be Special Forces qualified by age 18 just from watching movies and playing video games.

 

[innerpiece]

in the movies, yeah, you definetly need a gun in each hand... I mean serious, look how many bad guys ladden in kevlar you hafta take out with 2 9mm's!

a 2nd pistol as a BUG in some real world instances is quite relevant tho.. but not in all.

ip.

 

[PRM]

Another Era

On a serious side, it was a practice during the percussion era to carry multiple revolvers. Not for dual shooting - but for the time factor of reloading under fire. There are accounts of Southern cavalry troops and partisans carrying up to eight or more revolvers. Some of which were carried in holsters on their saddles.

 

[atblis]

Ha

I've had two of the exact same hand gun a few times.

Here's the results.

2xWitness 10mms. 30 rounds of full tilt 10mm. 180 gr @1370fps
Complete joke. Truthfully hard to keep your footing shooting both at the same time.

2x Cz75s. No where near as bad but. 32 rounds fired at a cinder block at about 15 feet. 1 hit.

Amusing none the less.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Well, for me having a second loaded iron in the other hand means I can "reload" faster by shifting my attention to the weak-hand gun and continuing the engagement, or if I need suppression-fire or a lot of lead I can do a left-right-left-right-left-right firing sequence,or if a second goblin approaches from the other side I can just bring the closer iron to bear on them--my peripheral-vision's better than normal, and I'm actually working on training myself to shoot using it. Note, though, that I'm not pulling two triggers at once in any of the above examples, and my "targeting focus" is only on one goblin at a time--this just allows me to transfer that focus a bit faster.

[from same person:]

As shown in the movies is pure Hollyweird bovine-scatology, though.

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Good stuff, Maynard. You just can't make this up; thanks for putting a big smile on my face!

 

[Prepster]

It's just plain fun, although it is a waste of ammo. I dual wielded a G19 and a Sigma 9 once to see how quickly I could empty both. If we assume the backstop was the target, I shot perfectly!

I did once see a guy with a pair of 1851 Colts (replicas) who was actually hitting stuff most of the time, and that was pretty cool.

 

[makarovnik]

Not unless you're Wild Bill Hickock.

 

[janobles14]

hell...just looks cool. and looking cool will scare the baddies better than marksmanship! believe it!

 

[Geezer59]

Yeah I think you're right , heck Roy and Gene both carried double rigs but I never saw either one shoot them both at the same time

Hoppy could do it, shooting from the hip! I once saw him (in an old Western) walk up a hill in the open, under fire from three outlaws with lever action carbines under cover in a log cabin, steely-eyed firing alternate-hand shots that never missed.

Even at age five I was just a little skeptical.

 

[jackstinson]

The SAS Cowboy Action Shooting guys do it all the time.
I believe it is called Gunfighter Class; one in each hand.
10 shots fired successively, alternating guns usually.

 

[JImbothefiveth]

approaches from the other side

Seems like if someone aproached you from the other side, he could take your gun from you.

 

[SuperNaut]

Duel-wielding went out of fashion in the 18th century.

Dual-wielding is currently a Hollywood and video-game trope du jour.

 

[edSky]

Yeah I think you're right , heck Roy and Gene both carried double rigs but I never saw either one shoot them both at the same time

Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider in "The French Connection?" I don't think ... Wait, my Pa is telling me something ... Oh, never mind.

 

[dagger dog]

ed,

Them guys are NYC cowboys, and they were definitley lookin' for a different kind of HORSE!

 

[possum]

duel wielding handguns-any purpose?

none.

the only way that i see having two guns out at once is if one is empty and you are doing the quickest reload possible, which is another gun, and you haven't yet holstered the one empty. there is never ever any need to shoot 2 handguns at the same time. what a waste of time and energy and money.