Quoheleth
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A couple weeks ago, I got my Uberti Hombre in .45 Colt. My first range trip was a smashing success. Accuracy was outstanding, but the gun shot low - about 3" at 10 yards. With a high 12:00 hold, I was more-or-less hitting the center of my bullseye. I was shooting with a modified Weaver grip, two hands, slightly altered from how I would shoot a DA revolver.
This afternoon I was shooting the same gun, same bullet, same load (8gr Unique, 250gr LRN MBC, mixed brass, WLP), same grip & stance. Still shooting low. On a whim and a whirl, I tried the old US Army stance - one handed, body about 45 degrees canted from the target instead of facing it square on. Low and behold, holding dead center, I was hitting doggone near dead center - or, at least, I was hitting where my shot was breaking instead of 3" low. I would let the gun roll up in my hand. My pinkey was under the grip, two fingers under the trigger guard, and a firm grip, but not so much as to make muscles wobbly. My friend, shooting with me, said it was looking like the gun was kicking the everlivin' hound out of me, but it wasn't - just a nice rolling push upward on the forearm.
That got me thinking - are SAA/clones meant to be fired with a looser stance so recoil drives the muzzle upward, lifting POI? I was always taught to have a walnut-crushing grip on a gun with arms almost locked so to drive the recoil rearward but keep the gun from rising too high in recoil. Do SAA/clones have a bit different style needed to shoot them well?
For all intents and purposes, this is my first rodeo with the single-action, so it's a learning curve.
Q
This afternoon I was shooting the same gun, same bullet, same load (8gr Unique, 250gr LRN MBC, mixed brass, WLP), same grip & stance. Still shooting low. On a whim and a whirl, I tried the old US Army stance - one handed, body about 45 degrees canted from the target instead of facing it square on. Low and behold, holding dead center, I was hitting doggone near dead center - or, at least, I was hitting where my shot was breaking instead of 3" low. I would let the gun roll up in my hand. My pinkey was under the grip, two fingers under the trigger guard, and a firm grip, but not so much as to make muscles wobbly. My friend, shooting with me, said it was looking like the gun was kicking the everlivin' hound out of me, but it wasn't - just a nice rolling push upward on the forearm.
That got me thinking - are SAA/clones meant to be fired with a looser stance so recoil drives the muzzle upward, lifting POI? I was always taught to have a walnut-crushing grip on a gun with arms almost locked so to drive the recoil rearward but keep the gun from rising too high in recoil. Do SAA/clones have a bit different style needed to shoot them well?
For all intents and purposes, this is my first rodeo with the single-action, so it's a learning curve.
Q