ChristopherG
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Looking for advice about shooting revolvers in action pistol games (IDPA, IPSC, etc.), one can hardly help notice that the normal assumption of video-instructors and authors is that you are shooting a 1911 or perhaps a Glock. I wonder if we might get a thread going that shares your hard-won wisdom about shooting revolvers. Let's break it down into a few discrete and concrete questions about how to handle fast, controlled revolver shooting (let's leave reloading for another thread; it's really a discrete subject):
1. How would you describe your grip--not the physical handle, but the way you hold the gun in your hands? What helps you gain optimal trigger control with adequate recoil control?
2. What stance or hybrid of stances do you use when shooting 'freestyle' (i.e. two handed)?
3. How do you try to control the trigger, both on the firing and reset stroke? When do you reset the trigger, and when do you begin the next trigger pull?
I'll try first:
1. I find the critical feature of a good revolver grip for me is a solid wrap around-and-down for my right thumb. Having the final joint of my strong thumb come down to contact the fingers of my strong hand on the left side of the grip strengthens the whole grip and is the only way to get the thumb reliably out of the way of the trigger finger as it completes the stroke. Left (weak) hand over strong hand fingers and clenched firm but not pressing 'back' (a'la Weaver). Left hand must be kept low so as not to interfere with the trigger finger.
2. Strong side turned 30-40 degrees from target; kind of a semi-weaver. Both elbows slightly bent out--weak elbow out more, and down lower, but not vertical by any means. I just can't make an iscosoles posiiton work with a revolver, despite Matt Burkett and Ron Avery and other gurus--am I alone here?
3. Trigger stroke begins on the first shot as the sights come to target; hold the trigger back through recoil, and reset as it settles back into position on (same or next) target. Followup trigger stroke as sights rest on target.
I'm neither remarkably fast nor amazingly accurate--at least not at the same time. And, this process gets a little loosy-goosey when the target is up close, where I'm basically point-shooting. But how do you do it differently? What works for you, and what do you find really critical and helpful?
CG
1. How would you describe your grip--not the physical handle, but the way you hold the gun in your hands? What helps you gain optimal trigger control with adequate recoil control?
2. What stance or hybrid of stances do you use when shooting 'freestyle' (i.e. two handed)?
3. How do you try to control the trigger, both on the firing and reset stroke? When do you reset the trigger, and when do you begin the next trigger pull?
I'll try first:
1. I find the critical feature of a good revolver grip for me is a solid wrap around-and-down for my right thumb. Having the final joint of my strong thumb come down to contact the fingers of my strong hand on the left side of the grip strengthens the whole grip and is the only way to get the thumb reliably out of the way of the trigger finger as it completes the stroke. Left (weak) hand over strong hand fingers and clenched firm but not pressing 'back' (a'la Weaver). Left hand must be kept low so as not to interfere with the trigger finger.
2. Strong side turned 30-40 degrees from target; kind of a semi-weaver. Both elbows slightly bent out--weak elbow out more, and down lower, but not vertical by any means. I just can't make an iscosoles posiiton work with a revolver, despite Matt Burkett and Ron Avery and other gurus--am I alone here?
3. Trigger stroke begins on the first shot as the sights come to target; hold the trigger back through recoil, and reset as it settles back into position on (same or next) target. Followup trigger stroke as sights rest on target.
I'm neither remarkably fast nor amazingly accurate--at least not at the same time. And, this process gets a little loosy-goosey when the target is up close, where I'm basically point-shooting. But how do you do it differently? What works for you, and what do you find really critical and helpful?
CG