Freedom arms/naa mini revolver drills

[KY DAN]

I did a quick Google and did not find much information in the way of shooting drills to practice using these tiny revolvers. Could anyone please recommend a course of fire?

Also what would be the method of carry for these as primary arms?

Thanks

 

[defjon]

I use the pocket clip foldable holster.

Practice unfolding and hitting a target at like 3-5 yards and you'll be about there.

 

[Kleanbore]

I did a quick Google and did not find much information in the way of shooting drills to practice using these tiny revolvers

If you are speaking of SD, first, figure put how to carry hat would facilitate drawing and presentation in around 1.5 seconds.

Then, look for books and videos and defensive handgun drills. You will find that hitting a small pie plate up to five time in one or two seconds in a second or two at 3 to 5 yards is called for.

Good luck. I wouldn't be able to do that with one of those.

 

[LeftyRed]

Paul Harrell on YouTube has some good techniques and drills on using the small NAA revolvers.

 

[Ohen Cepel]

Larger grips helps with handling but decreased concealability of course.

 

[film495]

I use the pocket clip foldable holster.

Practice unfolding and hitting a target at like 3-5 yards and you'll be about there.

same. the draw is slow until you figure out you just have to give it a snappy yank, but it is easy to draw and present quickly with a little practice. fits in the little watch pocket on jeans, looks like a pager or a multi-tool IMHO. I shoot at tin cans at like 30 feet. It took me a few tires to stop hitting the can to the left of the one I was aiming at, but withing 20 or 30 shots I had it figured out.

 

[armedwalleye]

I've got mine on a neck cord kydex holster and it's more of a deep concealment gun for me. Really slow draw, but unlikey to be seen or even felt without an almost total body pat down.

 

[jmorris]

Anything with a reload on the clock is a good drill for those in need of a reality check.

I wanted one of these back in the ‘80’s for the novelty.

The times I do carry the NAA I do have it’s just in my pocket, admittedly it’s not very often at all the beretta .25 ACP offers centerfire reliability, higher capacity, more accuracy and is less prone to snag drawing it.

I guess any drill, you can also do with any other handguns you have would be good, if you just want to compare the little revolvers quantitatively to other firearms.

 

[film495]

I shoot tin cans sometimes, just to make sure I can hit at more than a few feet. A speed reload is unlikely - compared to say popping a new magazine in an auto loader, but it doesn't take that long if you practice. I don't bring extra rounds with me when I have mine, I just don't think that's the purpose. It is a last ditch, get off a few rounds, maybe run away in the confusion type of firearm to me. I think more often then no, just having a firarm ends a perpetrators motivation to do whatever they were going to be doing, so - practice is good, actually having it on you - my preference is the little flip out holster and clipping it into my right front pocket. Pulls out easy with a bit of practice, shoots OK, flip out grip is much more shootable than the stock wood grips, worth trying them.

 

[GEM]

You are not reloading these in real time. It's a bug or a one opponent gun that can work to rid yourself of a bad person.

Pocket holsters seem the best. Why carry one on a belt? Carry something more 'potent'.

Around your neck - they are close in guns and being entangled seems not a good thing for a gun that both have access to. I can see that carry for sneaking it out though.

Do they have efficacy? Well, a bad guy absorbed some 357 rounds from a police officer and then killed with a NAA - a weird shot, IIRC, that got around his vest in his arm pit and severed major vessels. Might have some details off, though.

In Florida, two old geezer in a restaurant shot a shotgun carrying thief with a NAA and a 2 shot 22 Mag derringer. Hit him and he ran away, caught later but the crime was stopped.

I've shot these on the TX old CHL standard blue bottle test with a 1 5/8" barrel and the slip on rubber grips that are the same size as the wood ones but give a better grip. Got a 230 out of 250. Misses were over the shoulders and some in the target but to the sides and down.

Of course, the most famous recent use of a NAA Pug was the old geezer waving one at some demonstrators in front of a restaurant. Not a plan as the crowd had folks with EBRs that started to rack them when Geezer drew from his pocket. His wife dragged him inside.

To conclude, pocket carry with the smaller grips in a good pocket holster. I don't see the utility of making it bigger or belt carry. Too many better guns that are easily pocket carried or on your belt that compared to making a mini bigger. It's a bug, though.

 

[MedWheeler]

Mine is a third gun. I've been debating ditching belt carry of my primary so, if that happens, the NAA 1.125" mini may become a second instead. It's carried in my jeans "fifth" (watch) pocket, butt turned to left, as I am a southpaw, and covered by my belt-worn cellphone case. I swapped the minuscule birdshead stocks for the slightly-less-miniscule engraved boot ones instead.

Were I carrying it as an "only" for some reason, I would still carry it in that position, accessible with either hand. I'm never out and about (except when in work EMS uniform) in anything other than jeans.