Andy Blozinski
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My Rhino fires .357 one handed no problem and doesn't hurt at all. Obviously I prefer two handed, but I always fire some one handed and from either hand to be familiar with that situation.
I don't think Driftwood is really asking how to shoot a lightweight snubby . He is just saying it ain't his thing. He has small revolvers already but they actually have a little weight to them.
I don't think Driftwood is really asking how to shoot a lightweight snubby . He is just saying it ain't his thing. He has small revolvers already but they actually have a little weight to them.
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Let me say right off that I have no desire to own a light weight, small frame 357 Mag or 38 Special. I have three S&W J frame 38 Specials, two Model 36s and a Model 60, the Stainless version of the Model 36. Firing these small, steel framed 38s is all the recoil I want to handle. I can't imagine shooting a 357 Mag version.
I was at the range yesterday and a pal had a Ruger LCR. Five shot 38 Special. He asked if I wanted to try it. I remember I shot one a few years ago and did not care for the trigger. He handed me five rounds of ammunition. I was shooting one handed. First shot, ouch! Plus the gun jumped way up. Second shot, ouch again. I emptied the gun and gave him back the three unfired rounds. We both had a good laugh over it. Maybe if I had tried it two hands I would have liked it a bit better.
Call me a sissy if you want, but the Ruger LCR is not on my Christmas list.
I don't think Driftwood is really asking how to shoot a lightweight snubby . He is just saying it ain't his thing. He has small revolvers already but they actually have a little weight to them.
Some folks seem to thrive on harsh recoil and some folks don't. Some folks tend to treat tolerance to recoil as a badge of masculinity and some don't.
80 years, 90, maybe 100. At 70 years old, and shooting for at least 60 of them with the past 50 with a lot of handguns it hasn't happened yet. "Badge of masculinity" not. Just a fact of shooting life learned many years ago. A law written by that dude that had an apple hit him on the head. Equal and opposite, and all that. It's not about earning some fictional badge. It's about learning how to handle recoil properly instead of complaining about it. Physical impairment of course being the exception.if they do it long enough, run a very real risk of suffering permanent joint, tendon, and nerve damage
And many smokers lived for years without getting cancer, emphysema, congestive heart failure, athsma, or COPD.80 years, 90, maybe 100. At 70 years old, and shooting for at least 60 of them with the past 50 with a lot of handguns it hasn't happened yet.
I'm sure there are ways to reduce the incidence of injury in the short term, but they will not enable a shooter to fire as rapid a controlled string with a heavily recoiling handgun as hero she would otherwise, and that's really what is necessary in defensive handgun shooting.It's about learning how to handle recoil properly instead of complaining about it.
Scout, guess us old guy have just gotten used to recoil over the many years of shooting. It was just part of shooting, and we got used to it. Today the young'uns is more concerned 'bout comfort than just shootin'
It is a mystery to me why anyone would do that.I was shooting one handed.