westernrover
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I mostly shoot a double-action revolver. It's what I carry, what I've trained with at a growing number of classes and schools, and it's what I practice with regularly. With respect to skills, I've endeavored to gain double-action revolver-specific skills as well as the general handgun skills. I've pursued these skills by taking classes with well-known revolver experts and going to school at the reputable handgun training academies.
I'm interested in doing more with my single action revolver, but I don't know what skills to pursue or how to go after them. I saw the videos Ruger did with Il Ling New at Gunsite for "Single-Action Self Defense. From what I can tell, the course basically adapts a regular Handgun 1 class for Single-Actions. I could go through that, but it seems like a dead-end. First, I've been through 2-day, 3-day, and 4-day handgun classes before, just not with a single-action. I could adapt what I've already learned in basic handgun self-defense to a single-action, but if I continued doing handgun classes with more advanced tactics and training, I would be running into the limitations of the single-action. Honestly, if I were to bring a single-action to some of the third-level 3-day classes, I think the instructors would decline to permit its use.
I've heard of Cowboy Action Shooting. Is that the way to get skills? Or is it just a game? I'm a little reluctant to even think of getting into it because of the expense in guns -- a second revolver, a rifle, and a shotgun that I don't have -- and those guns aren't even close to affordable or even available these days. Ok, maybe the cap and ball revolvers are affordable and available, but not much else -- but I've got a ton of components for 357 ammo on-hand. Are the skills in CAS even what I want to try to acquire? Is there another direction I can go in with a single-action? Coyotes are the only thing I can hunt without a rare tag, but my traditional-style single-action won't take a scope.
What direction would you advise me to look for single-action skills?
I'm interested in doing more with my single action revolver, but I don't know what skills to pursue or how to go after them. I saw the videos Ruger did with Il Ling New at Gunsite for "Single-Action Self Defense. From what I can tell, the course basically adapts a regular Handgun 1 class for Single-Actions. I could go through that, but it seems like a dead-end. First, I've been through 2-day, 3-day, and 4-day handgun classes before, just not with a single-action. I could adapt what I've already learned in basic handgun self-defense to a single-action, but if I continued doing handgun classes with more advanced tactics and training, I would be running into the limitations of the single-action. Honestly, if I were to bring a single-action to some of the third-level 3-day classes, I think the instructors would decline to permit its use.
I've heard of Cowboy Action Shooting. Is that the way to get skills? Or is it just a game? I'm a little reluctant to even think of getting into it because of the expense in guns -- a second revolver, a rifle, and a shotgun that I don't have -- and those guns aren't even close to affordable or even available these days. Ok, maybe the cap and ball revolvers are affordable and available, but not much else -- but I've got a ton of components for 357 ammo on-hand. Are the skills in CAS even what I want to try to acquire? Is there another direction I can go in with a single-action? Coyotes are the only thing I can hunt without a rare tag, but my traditional-style single-action won't take a scope.
What direction would you advise me to look for single-action skills?