David E:
Couple different schools of shooting.
I'll call the first one the Lee Jurras method.
You lock both hands on the gun, hold on as hard as you can, and pull the trigger, using every bit of your strength to keep the muzzle down, and on target. Lee shot a LOT of .44 Magnum, with 185 grain, 1900 fps loads with this method.
I didn't learn that method. Since I liked SA/DA guns, and accuracy, I was taught use as relaxed a grip as you can, pull the trigger as lightly and as consistently as possible, without jerking. Don't anticipate, then pull the gun out of recoil for the next shot.
Keep in mind at this time, we didn't really do custom grips much. I had big hands, and, without proper sized grips, the strangle-Jurras method didn't really work.
The gorilla in the corner was all the stuff I shot was pretty heavy recoil. My SA fun load was 230 grain ball at 1800 fps, out of a Seville. With small grips, and big hands, that was the limit of what could be held on to, and very near over it.
My carry gun was a Detonics Mark VI, using Detonics 200 grain flying ashtray at 1200 fps load. With standard grips, this load would take the skin off my hands pretty fast. Plus the grips were too small, and if I made them big enough, they didn't conceal well. Also the standard grips wore holes in my shirts when I carried the gun.
The solution was to sand the grips smooth. This solved the shirt problem.
It also made the death grip shooting method impossible.
So, for 5 years, every other day, couple hours a day this is how I shot, with both the Seville and the Detonics.
Take a relaxed grip, pull the trigger, keep your arms relaxed, and let the gun ride up in recoil. Keep in mind, this is NOT limp wristing. With the Seville, if you limp wristed the hammer would be in the center of your forehead.
Once the shot was off, keep your eye on the target, pull the gun out of recoil, put the front site on the target, and pull trigger again. Needless to say, with the Seville you had to cock the hammer.
With the Detonics, you can get your shots down to under a .3 second, my guess, and, hit your target. It does take practice. This was shooting at 15-25 yards.
This technique works for really heavy loads as well, provided you have proper sized grips. If you are trying to death grip the gun, with too small grips, it's impossible, or near so, to stay on target when you pull the trigger, for me. Jurras had his load limitations, but, in his prime, he could put 6 shots on a playing card, at 100 yards.
I realize that with the modern guns, compensators, and loads you can
never readjust the gun, never loose site picture, and keep the front site on the target. It's a fancy way of shooting like you have a .22lr, but selling everyone that your are shooting a 'real' gun.
I figured that's why God created .22lr.
I tend to agree with the Gel testing point. Watching this stuff in slow motion gives you a real good idea when you get outside the SD caliber box.
Here is pretty close to what I have loaded in my .475 Linebaugh, same weight bullet, same hollow point, mine are only 1560 fps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZCqQWJhjtY
Now, compare that to10 MM, 170 grains 1204 fps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z49Lbnt16M
Now the .45 ACP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwAbIdamK2A
Then back to a .45-70, 300 grain, HP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE8F0Bno7Qo
As you can see, you can get .500 grain loads that come pretty close to a .45-70 rifle.
You can also shoot these out of a packable handgun:
Finally lets look at 9MM Black Talon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo4c9-V2AH8
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