Shooting DA Revolvers DA!

Getting lazy.

I used to shoot dfensive guns DA, and recreational/hunting guns SA. Here lately, I've been slacking about getting to the range enough. I've also done way more SA plinking than serious DA improvement work.

I think that my next revolover purchase will be a dedicated DA-only defensive gun. Maybe a 3" barrel GP-100 with a bobbed hammer, so that I have to get proficient with it.
 
Always

Most of my shooting is with revolvers; all are shot DA. I installed a spring kit in by 686 and 66 and glued a pencil eraser (cut and filed to fit exactly) behind the trigger for a trigger stop. I had to take the Taurus to a gunsmith as I was not sure that just a spring kit would do the job - trigger is much better now but still not as good as the Smiths. For 50 yards I trigger cock, reaim and press. Never have shot single action.
John
 
I'm a die hard Ruger revolver dude, but when it comes to DA shooting nothing beats a honed S&W trigger. I got a model 66 with an action that feels like marbles rolling on a beveled glass topped table - it is that smooth. josh
 
Someone could sneak into my house and grind the SA notch off the hammers of all my Smiths one night, and it'd probably be a month or two before I noticed...
 
This is interesting, because I never ever shoot my S&W 19s in SA. I always shoot in DA, and since both my 642s are DAO, I guess it's good I do.
I was not aware DA shooting with revolvers was a dying art.

The people I see at the Indy ranges with revolvers however are usually shooting them DA.
 
In an ICORE match I shot in last weekend, the guy who won the final mano-a-mano shootout (Texas star plus a stop plate) was shooting a Taurus of some sort and thumbing it back for each shot. Most of the traditionalist revo guys were disgusted, but the pistol boys were flabbergasted.

Rick
 
Ditto what Hal said. To practice SA most of the time may make nice groups to show the friends and family when you take the targets home but that lifesaving shot in the middle of the night will most likely be DA. Wouldn't it be nice to have it hit the "ten ring"? Only two ways that will happen. One is luck and the other is skill developed from practice. Which would you like to rely on?

My personal choice is to practice the way I expect to have to shoot. Ok, I admit to shooting my 686 SA too. There is a range I shoot at with a steel plate at 100 yards. It sure is fun to make it ring.
 
I will confess I like to shoot SA but I will always fire DA when I get about hafe done.Makes sense that you may need both someday.I also practice just point and shoot in SA and DA still don't have that down as good as I like but getting there. :)
 
I used to shoot my DA revolvers about half SA and half DA. That is way more SA time than I needed because I aways found DA shooting frustating in the accuracy department. It took buying a DAO S&W 940 to really practice my DA shooting and now I'm better.

Shooting SA enabled me be a lazy revolver shooter.
 
Since my revolvers (3"SP101 and 642) are DAO and are my CCW's I always practice with them DA. My Taurus 94 I practice/plink 50/50 DA,SA :cool:
 
sa/da

Some time ago I belonged to a club that was a self syled IPSC bunch. one of the guys there was primarily a SASS shootist. Using two Single Action Army pistols he could out shoot most of us with semi-autos. He was fast and accurate. That is to say he could draw his six gun empty in on targets put it away draw the other one empty it. before we could do one gun with a semi.
 
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