mikemyers
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This is a continuation of a thread I started last May, with the same title.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=753339&highlight=mikemyers
A lot of that thread was about improving my S&W 357 Highway Patrolman, and with the help of lots of people here, it became a much more enjoyable and accurate firearm. Several weeks ago I had a gunsmith look over the gun, and make some additional small improvements. Another part of that thread was about how to get better precision when target shooting, and again, the advice helped a lot.
I've only been shooting once since last October - was out of the country, and only got to shoot one morning, two weeks ago, while visiting my brother.
So much for history.... now on to the new thread.
I went to the same gun range I usually go to, Florida Gun Center, an indoor range in Hialeah, Florida. I brought only my Model 41 S&W (a gun I bought back in the 1980's, which went to a relative a couple of years ago, and which I just bought back again) and a S&W Model 29 with 10 5/8" barrel, so I could finish sighting it in. I can see I need to start over again at getting tighter groups. I'll start on that in a few weeks - would just like to go to the range a few times with each of my guns, and just enjoy shooting them, before I get serious.
Anyway, on to the big revolver. I experienced the same thing I had noticed a year ago, on my smaller gun. No matter how well I get to shoot in Single-Action, invariably I do better as soon as I start shooting Double Action. To me, that's not logical, but it's very repeatable. My best guess is that I'm so busy "pulling the trigger" in DA mode, that I'm more likely to be surprised when it fires, and I'm less likely to jerk the gun one way or another. Here's two targets from today, the last ones I shot with each gun. They're from 15 yards, the longest distance my indoor range allows.
I did become aware of one "problem" today. The biggest difficulty I had, wasn't about holding the gun, or holding my breath, or focusing on the front sight - it was just "seeing" where the gun was pointed. With black sights, in front of a black blurred target, indoors, I found it very difficult to hold the gun centered on the target. Maybe it's because I've got 71 year old eyes, which have had their own issues. Maybe it's because i should get a new pair of shooting glasses. My only clue was that it was "easier" to aim at the large crosses that I made with a magic marker, than to aim at the 6" diameter targets I brought. Next time I go, I'll try 3" diameter targets.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=753339&highlight=mikemyers
A lot of that thread was about improving my S&W 357 Highway Patrolman, and with the help of lots of people here, it became a much more enjoyable and accurate firearm. Several weeks ago I had a gunsmith look over the gun, and make some additional small improvements. Another part of that thread was about how to get better precision when target shooting, and again, the advice helped a lot.
I've only been shooting once since last October - was out of the country, and only got to shoot one morning, two weeks ago, while visiting my brother.
So much for history.... now on to the new thread.
I went to the same gun range I usually go to, Florida Gun Center, an indoor range in Hialeah, Florida. I brought only my Model 41 S&W (a gun I bought back in the 1980's, which went to a relative a couple of years ago, and which I just bought back again) and a S&W Model 29 with 10 5/8" barrel, so I could finish sighting it in. I can see I need to start over again at getting tighter groups. I'll start on that in a few weeks - would just like to go to the range a few times with each of my guns, and just enjoy shooting them, before I get serious.
Anyway, on to the big revolver. I experienced the same thing I had noticed a year ago, on my smaller gun. No matter how well I get to shoot in Single-Action, invariably I do better as soon as I start shooting Double Action. To me, that's not logical, but it's very repeatable. My best guess is that I'm so busy "pulling the trigger" in DA mode, that I'm more likely to be surprised when it fires, and I'm less likely to jerk the gun one way or another. Here's two targets from today, the last ones I shot with each gun. They're from 15 yards, the longest distance my indoor range allows.
I did become aware of one "problem" today. The biggest difficulty I had, wasn't about holding the gun, or holding my breath, or focusing on the front sight - it was just "seeing" where the gun was pointed. With black sights, in front of a black blurred target, indoors, I found it very difficult to hold the gun centered on the target. Maybe it's because I've got 71 year old eyes, which have had their own issues. Maybe it's because i should get a new pair of shooting glasses. My only clue was that it was "easier" to aim at the large crosses that I made with a magic marker, than to aim at the 6" diameter targets I brought. Next time I go, I'll try 3" diameter targets.