One Gun Type?

[raskolnikov_22]

Why would you be seperated from your 1911? Are you bugging-out and forgot to take it with you? Is it not at your bug-in location? Do you not have enough ammo for it?
What kind of event would have to transpire to lose your 1911 but be able to find a revolver?

You've never heard of (or experienced) Murphy's Law? One assumption everyone can make with confidence is that bad, improbable things will happen.
I wish I lived in your perfectly logical world where everything goes as planned. Life would be so easy then.

But I really think anyone who can shoot a 1911 really well shouldn't have a problem figuring out how to work a DA revolver.

Sure it's no mystery how to operate a revolver, but someone who spent all their life with a SA trigger wouldn't have the finger strength for continuous DA shooting, or hands toughened up and used to shooting magnum loads. That's the difference between knowledge, even familiarity and experience.

 

[mljdeckard]

I very much agree. Asking why you could be separated from your EDC is willfully naive. It is assume that when something very bad happens, everything will go exactly according to plan.

 

[Skillet]

it depends...

well that is wrong and right. see, it depends on what you do with your pistol.
if you do concealed carry, you HAVE to get used to different carry positions and different guns. because your gun does not change. you do. you may get more skinny, or more buddha like (haha).or, if you shoot in competition, you might want to keep just one gun and get amazingly good at shooting it.what i do, is when i get a new pistol, i shoot it and nothing else like crazy on that pistol until i can point it at a target and not even think about shooting it that much and be right on target. i did that with my 1911, and now i am working on that with my cz. your body can be accustomed to a multitude of things, just think about how many different types of doorknobs or doorhandles that are out there. you have cabinet loop handles, doorknobs, doorhandles with the handle jsut sticking out there, and the list goes on... but you go through doors that have those on them without even thinking about them at all. if you get accustomed to alot of different types of guns, you will become a better all-round shooter. it just takes time, but the real question to that is, how much TIME do you actually have? that can be a deciding factor as well a alot of other things.
alot of things come into play there. just look at your situation and main use of the pistol and come up with a conclusion that fits your best needs.
that's what i do!

 

[Nicodemus38]

What is your full potential with shooting though? is it to be someone who can take up their favorite handgun, and proceed to empty a 20 round box of ammo into a basketball at 100 yards? Or is your full potential to be a person who can go to a gun range on sight in day, pick up anyones handgun or rifle, take a few ranging shots, and then proceed to put a 20 round box of ammunition into a group that is the same size as what the guns owner shoots with it as half the range you just did?
Thats what you have to focus on first, that gives you the goal to attain. It doesnt matter if you merely want to be the guy who can get the first or second example ive listed, you just have to decide on it, and then shoot for it.

 

[ironvic]

In 1975, I decided that I needed to be proficient in just about any firearm. Up until then, I was primarily an airgun shooter, eschewing firearms of any kind. That was until I went on a call where the SWAT team leader asked if I knew how to use a Remington 870 (in case he got shot) because the chances were that we were gonna meet up with a gunman inside the building and we were outgunned, with innocent people down and badly injured inside. Learning on the fly about the 870s operation is not a good way to learn.

So, now I can use, and have owned, just about any firearm you can think of that isn't a full auto weapon, and in the process went from anti-gunner to avid-gunner.

These days, though, I'm happy just shooting my Sig P-226 9mm and my .357 revolvers (1 colt Trooper and 1 S&W 686+). If all I had was 1 gun, that would not be a problem for me.

 

[Rexster]

I do make sure all of my serious-use handgun point the same in my hands, and my first-line go-to guns are long-stroke DA, at least for the first shot. (SIG P229s and DA sixguns and snubby fiveguns.) This does not mean that I cannot shoot a 1911 well, and I would indeed use a 1911, or for that matter a single-action sixgun, with confidence if it was what was most handy at a given moment in time.

That being said, I DO believe that it is easier to reach one's full potential if one concentrates on one weapon system.

Put me on a debate team, and I could argue both sides of this subject.

 

[sw282]

I have a Gold Cup and a Browning Comp. Both hi dollar autos. I shoot my Model 15 & 28-2 best of all. I really dont know why. With my Model 29 I shot IHMSA and killed deer. Defending my self with that 2" 15 is comforting and I dont feel undergunned. If I need to shoot farther theres an AR handy. After working for my Uncle thru 3 wars he gave the oppertunity of 1911s-M9 Berettas-and finally a Sig 225. That 15 is still my favorite. Favorite range gun too. I am getting too old chasing brass all over the place!