Why is the "Dirty Harry" wrist brace grip considered bad?

do whatever works and is safe. It took me a while, but I discovered I'm much better at being and staying on target with an off hand finger jammed right up inder the trigger guard as part of my grip. I never used to really do that, but just dry fire practicing and trying different things, a lot of small things seemed to work and took some practice to adopt. anyway, just saying trying a lot of different things, sometimes you hit one that really makes sense even if it doens't make sense out of the gate.
 
Do not be concerned with what other people think or say !
If you have to wear a wrist brace and shoot like "Dirty Harry " so what ...
You have to make concessions for age and physical disabilities ... You do what you have to do to keep shooting and if others don't like that ... tell them they can Kiss your... the place the sun doesn't shine on !
Not a thing wrong with bracing a revolver however and wherever it helps you shoot ...
I myself use the Dirty Harry Wrist Brace Hold whenever needed .
Gary
 
It's out of fashion, also considered "Hollywood". Jeff Cooper and Co. pushed the "modern technique", the Weaver Stance, e.g. Ed McGivern achieved all his feats using the Bullseye stance. Don't recall Charlie Askins writing about what stances he used. IIRC William Fairbairn pushed the Isoceles Stance.
 
Just some thoughts from a guy with wrist issues (avascular necrosis in shooting wrist).

If your ccw only works with the dirty Harry wrist grip, what if you need your ccw but only have 1 hand free? Not an unlikely scenario (attacked, on your back, already shot or stabbed in one arm, etc).

I know I'm a minority here, but I'm a revolver apologist for civilian ccw. It's made for a realistic self defense scenario. It'll shoot one hand, two hand, whatever ...as long as you've a single operational booger hook you're in the fight.

As far as recoil, the airweights are not bad with wadcutters, critical defense, critical defense lite, etc. This is in 38.

Or, you could step to a 32, or even a 22. The 22 punch has a flat point and seems to reliably drive about 15ish inches. Not a spitwad. I just don't trust rimfire in that role.
 
defjon said:
Just some thoughts from a guy with wrist issues (avascular necrosis in shooting wrist).

If your ccw only works with the dirty Harry wrist grip, what if you need your ccw but only have 1 hand free? Not an unlikely scenario (attacked, on your back, already shot or stabbed in one arm, etc).

I know I'm a minority here, but I'm a revolver apologist for civilian ccw. It's made for a realistic self defense scenario. It'll shoot one hand, two hand, whatever ...as long as you've a single operational booger hook you're in the fight.

As far as recoil, the airweights are not bad with wadcutters, critical defense, critical defense lite, etc. This is in 38.

Or, you could step to a 32, or even a 22. The 22 punch has a flat point and seems to reliably drive about 15ish inches. Not a spitwad. I just don't trust rimfire in that role.
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It's not that my gun only works that way. It's that I can't use truncated cone JHPs (specifically, Hornady XTP) in my P365-380s because the combination of my wrist/thumb issues, the soft recoil of the gun, the steep feed ramp, and the truncated cone bullet shape cause them to not feed properly for me. The RSOs at my range have no problem shooting the XTPs. I have no problems with any ammo with a more rounded bullet profile, and right now I'm carrying my P365s with SIG Elite 100gr FMJ.

As far as the Dirty Harry grip, it fixed the feed problems, but it's an inherently unstable grip and caused other problems, so that's out.
 
You do you.

The wrist grip is just another hold/stance. There's nothing inherently dangerous about it. There's nothing inherently bad about it.

The are quite often several ways to do something and while some tend to be better than others, there's not necessarily anything that says you CAN'T do those other methods.

Kinda like when I'm working with newer/younger engineers. Sometimes I sit on my hands and force myself to let them do things their way.
 
dobedo said:
It will if you do 200 full hand squeezes at day in each hand.
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Plus, some gym work. Wrists, forearms, biceps, shoulders.

Then practice form. Snap that presentation out there, firmly squeezing the roscoe.
 
S.Crockett said:
Plus, some gym work. Wrists, forearms, biceps, shoulders.

Then practice form. Snap that presentation out there, firmly squeezing the roscoe.
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I lifted for more than 30 years, but with arthritis in both wrists and the thumb of my weak hand, along with a CMC joint arthroplasty with flexor tendon interposition having already been performed on my strong hand, those days are over. I'm doing the Prohands every day, but even that is painful. Some things you just don't come back from.
 
Pistolay said:
I lifted for more than 30 years, but with arthritis in both wrists and the thumb of my weak hand, along with a CMC joint arthroplasty with flexor tendon interposition having already been performed on my strong hand, those days are over. I'm doing the Prohands every day, but even that is painful. Some things you just don't come back from.
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I get it.

So shooting a .44 Mag like Dirty Harry becomes mostly an aspirational exercise in LARPing.
 
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