This is being offered to supplement the recent discussions here on combat shooting with bigbore DA revolvers. Hopefully it will not result in another locked thread.
I was asked to run a qualification for a small Department yesterday afternoon, and during a lull I was able to get another instructor to run me through with my old S&W .44 Magnum. I teased the Major who ordered the targets, and asked him if they were left-over props from the old movie “Land of the Giants”. The load was a 200 grain RNFP with enough Universal (about 9 grains) to approximate WW 210 Magnum Silvertips; all shooting was DA, fired from standing. 48 rounds total worth a max of 5 points each, for a possible of 240 points. Stages were as follows-
3 Yards- six strong-hand only and six weak-hand only, in 20 seconds including reload. This is the dreaded hip-shooting that most LE instructors avoid like the plague these days. I am one of the few dinosaurs who still teach it as part of qualifications.
7 Yards- Double-taps from the holster, in 4 seconds or less. Repeat three times.
7 Yards- Three rounds from “low ready”, in 4 seconds or less. Repeat twice.
15 Yards- Twelve rounds in 25 seconds or less, including reload.
25 Yards- Twelve rounds in 45 seconds or less, including reload.
I don’t shoot a DA revolver as well as I used to, yet I still finished the stages with time to spare. I was the only revolver shooter there, and oddly enough, posted the only "possible". I wandered off to the right there a tad, but I can live with it.
I was asked to run a qualification for a small Department yesterday afternoon, and during a lull I was able to get another instructor to run me through with my old S&W .44 Magnum. I teased the Major who ordered the targets, and asked him if they were left-over props from the old movie “Land of the Giants”. The load was a 200 grain RNFP with enough Universal (about 9 grains) to approximate WW 210 Magnum Silvertips; all shooting was DA, fired from standing. 48 rounds total worth a max of 5 points each, for a possible of 240 points. Stages were as follows-
3 Yards- six strong-hand only and six weak-hand only, in 20 seconds including reload. This is the dreaded hip-shooting that most LE instructors avoid like the plague these days. I am one of the few dinosaurs who still teach it as part of qualifications.
7 Yards- Double-taps from the holster, in 4 seconds or less. Repeat three times.
7 Yards- Three rounds from “low ready”, in 4 seconds or less. Repeat twice.
15 Yards- Twelve rounds in 25 seconds or less, including reload.
25 Yards- Twelve rounds in 45 seconds or less, including reload.
I don’t shoot a DA revolver as well as I used to, yet I still finished the stages with time to spare. I was the only revolver shooter there, and oddly enough, posted the only "possible". I wandered off to the right there a tad, but I can live with it.
