Or any of the DA/SA semi-autos like my Bersa Thunder Plus?What does he do when the gun is a 1911A1 .45acp??
That's some mighty fine shootin there.Hawg, one of my favorite things to do is bust those little orange shotgun clays on a dirt bank at 100 yards with my snubby revolvers. No, I am not claiming to be Jerry Miculek or Bob Munden. I don't hit them every time, maybe once in 5 - 8 shots, but I can routinely scare hell out of them, just barely missing them by an inch or two. If that were a man standing out there he would be in DEEP doo-doo.
I can't tell people on here my shooting "secrets" short of writing a book, but it has to do with keeping both eyes open, letting the sights wander and timing your squeeze so the shot breaks just as the sight picture intersects the target.
If you try to hold a rock steady sight picture, all you will do is start shaking like a dog tying to pass a peach seed.
Why do I do that? Oh, just 'cause. And it is fun.
Well, it is something I have worked on for 55+ years. I grew up hunting jack rabbits in Montana with a 22 single action. Ever shoot at a running jack rabbit? Seldom at under 50 yards? Hoppity-hoppity-hoppity. Timing was everything. There was a 50-cent per head bounty on them. 50 cents in 1955 was like $5.00 now. Canadian cold fronts used to drive them down into Montana by the tens of thousands, and they would literally destroy hay stacks. It was ALLways below freezing and I used to fill up 50-gallon oil drums with them, and when I had five drums full, take them in and collect a pretty fat "pay check" for a kid.That's some mighty fine shootin there.
The answer is "No". If I could, I could actually hit something with the gun DA..Jimku,
I was just doing some DA dry firing with my Kimber K6, and a question just popped into my head wondering if you can dry fire DA and keep the sights aligned?
Now, I'm not saying YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO SHOOT DA!LOL, just wondering if you can keep the sights aligned while dry firing?
And ... if someone opens fire on you from 50 yards away with an AK47? Never mind how unlikely that might be. What if!In a defensive revolver, a spur on the hammer makes little sense. Those who disagree will often state that it is necessary for that rare and unlikely "longer shot". They seem to not ever explain a realistic scenario where cocking the hammer on a double action is a wise or logical thing to do. If an attacker is not very close and you feel that you need to cock the hammer, you have the opportunity to retreat and not be involved at all and will have avoided having to explain why you felt threatened by someone who was not "all up in your face" (where almost all attacks happen).
Probably be one of the dumbest moves they ever made.... .And ... if someone opens fire on you from 50 yards away with an AK47? Never mind how unlikely that might be. What if!
You must be a happy freak of nature. Wish I was. But at anything past 7 yards I would be better off throwing my gun at him than shooting at him DA. Well, that might be a slight exaggeration, but only slight ... with my 5-shot snubby it would likely be one in each arm, one in each leg, and if lucky one in the crotch.I happen to be one of those that shoots D/A better than S/A.
Shooting D/A well is - therputic. It has a calming effect. Once you dial into doing it, you just sort of go with the flow.You must be a happy freak of nature. Wish I was.
For me, shooting DA means thousands of rounds down-range and not a mark on the target.Shooting D/A well is - therputic. It has a calming effect. Once you dial into doing it, you just sort of go with the flow.
In your imagined self-defence scenario, do you see yourself firing at an adversary further than 21 feet away?You must be a happy freak of nature. Wish I was. But at anything past 7 yards I would be better off throwing my gun at him than shooting at him DA. Well, that might be a slight exaggeration, but only slight ... with my 5-shot snubby it would likely be one in each arm, one in each leg, and if lucky one in the crotch.