Safety Reminder

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Sorry to read about someone blowing their thumb off shooting.

I looked at the pic replicating the grip and I can only shake my head. I have never held a gun like that. When shooting a gun my thumb is not anywhere near the front of the cylinder. My off hand thumb overlaps thumb on the hand pulling the trigger. Impossible for the thumb to be anywhere near the end of the cylinder. The grip in that pic is the dumbest looking grip I have ever seen.
I almost question if that is how it really happened. Never seen anyone hold a revolver like that.
 
Crossing one's thumbs is the best place for revolvers whether its SA or DA. It gives you superior control of the gun. That's what Im283 does (and me too). What the shooter did at Arfcom was to place his thumbs parallel, as if he was shooting a pistol. Ouch! :(
 
I don't believe the picture that shows how he was holding the revolver is accurate. If he was holding the revolver that way it wouldn't be the tip of his thumb but the damage would have been at the first joint. Much further toward the palm then the picture of the damaged thumb shows. From the picture of the damaged thumb I suspect that only the pad of his thumb was over the cylinder gap. I tested this out with my Taurus Raging Bull. You have to have your hand fairly far forward to have this happen. Having your off hand this far forward makes for a very bad hold. When it is like that no part of your off hand is controlling the revolver and the but can move towards your off hand because there is nothing holding it in place. I'm sorry the guy lost the tip of his thumb but it was a pretty dumb thing to do.
 
Thanks for posting this.

I only have full use of one arm so only shoot one handed, but this will help me to be observant of other shooters and give warning to them if I see this grip replicated.

I hate to see something like this happen but I'm glad the guy decided to make example of himself to help others avoid injury.
 
This reminds me of the time I was out shooting with my father in law. We were both shooting automatics and, well frankly, he isn't a good shooter at all. I started the day off showing him how to hold his brand new Sig P220, but since he is older and therefore must be wiser, he didn't listen to me. He put his weak hand thumb behind the slide, on top of his other hand. Kind of like shooting a revolver. Well, low and behold the slide comes back and leaves a nice couple of slices on his thumb. He looks around stunned and shows me what happened. I just told him to thank the lord that his thumb is still intact, that slide could have broke it clean off.

Just stay safe and watch what you are doing.
 
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