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  1. Made me laugh on that comment MWP, with the "hard to explain", and your talking to an audience of experienced revolver shooters. I have the damnedest time explaining this principle to the new shooters I take out and let them try my revolver. my usual speech is don't pull part way and stop, don't pull to slow and don't yank it. Be smooth, which can be accomplished at any speed, you can pull slowly, but smooth, medium, but smooth or fast, but smooth. Unfortunately, Im a piss poor instructor, I give the speech, then watch a trigger pull that takes 5 to 10 seconds and they are shaking like a dog s#!ttin a peach pit by the time the hammer falls........your right, it's hard to explain.
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    Ticks

    I began competitive shooting around 1976, local "combat" matches, then they evolved into IPSC sanctioned matches, I then switched to strictly revolver shooting in 1990 and never looked back. Within my time frame , from 1976 to around 2009, I saw all of the great shooters, and many hundreds of the rest us mere mortals shoot. Im a people watcher by nature, was always looking for subtle hints or positions, movement from shooters better than I was, that made sense and I could utilize in my shooting. Watching shooters, I also observed the many habits and ticks that so many shooters develop, wondering why, and how they thought it "upped" their game? They run the gamut from practice grabbing their grip 5 to 20 times at the make ready, to many multiple draws and sight picture on first target, adjusting a watch on their wrist, nervous twitching of fingers on one hand, Im sure you all can name half a dozen other ticks one can observe. In my early days I always paid attention to our host, Brian Enos. I was never at his level of shooting, but realized right off, his approach and purpose was a good thing. He'd step up, load and make ready, no twitching, no monkeying with his gun or equipment, nod his head at ready, then shoot so smoothly, rarely missing a target, and I knew, that's something I wanted to emulate, and did. Ive grabbed my gun a million times, I don't need to touch it 5 more at the make ready, I know where it is. Ive seen a sight picture a million times,I don't need to check it 5 times more at the make ready, I know how to see it. I don't need a lucky rabbits foot habit of adjusting a watch( I don't even own one), I don't need to twitch my fingers a dozen times, I need to make ready, nod my head and when the buzzer goes off shoot. At the local matches I attend, if every shooter did the same, I swear we could get back to the house 2 hours earlier. An interesting tick I see some fellow revolver shooters perform puzzles me, maybe someone can address this and clear it up to me. At the load and make ready, some guys fiddle with the cylinder at closing it after loading, like they are trying to spin it, what the hell is that all about? I imagine Ive put several hundred thousand rounds thru the several revolvers Ive used over the years, never once turning or trying to spin a cylinder, and never once have I experienced some manner of malfunction of the revolver.......am I missing something, or just lucky?
  3. From all the reading on these types of threads, it looks like even 9mm has its problems, from bullet creep to accuracy. Not sure why anyone with a 627 would want to piss with anything else but the 38 short colt? easy peasy.
  4. Mounted this Tasco in 1991, used it thru 2 IRCs (93-94) and competed with that set up until last year, made the switch to C-More RTS. It served me well, tube sight made indexing easier to my mind, took me some time to adjust to the bouncing ball in the C-More heads up sight.
  5. Vic

    Holsters.

    I feel your pain Joe, add to the mix I'm a southpaw and things really get sporty. My original K frame M14 Glenn Custom sits in a Safariland Cup holster which I'm fine with. Last year I snagged a deal on a PC 627, needed it like a hole in the head, but wanted to see what an 8 shooter was about. Tried to scrounge up another Safariland holster for it, figuring that was the platform and feel I was accustomed to, no luck there. Ended up with the CompTac 5", same as SpeedBeez. It's ok, but not worth the price of admission to my mind? Not fond of the new revolver retention devices erroneously called holsters I see at some matches, so I reckon I'm stuck with what I have?
  6. "Some kind of smith that worked on guns" I can recall days of old at the first couple IRCs, Charlie Prest would sit at a makeshift bench, between stages he had to shoot. He always had a couple guys standing in line to get some kind of repair done to their revolver. One moment you could watch him stretching a yoke to alleviate end shake, next time you pass by he was doing a trigger job. Hell, a guy had to wait all of 20 minutes to get a job done.....man those were the days.
  7. First time I saw a red dot optic in speed use was Steel Challenge match 1984 I believe.....might have been 85? John Shaw had an Aimpoint on his 1911, and I also heard many conversations on how a dot was going to slow him down. Those old Aimpoints had a very small window compared to todays optics, but he did pretty fair withit.
  8. This topic harkens me back to a high school boonie party, listening to a bunch of pot smokers deep in serious conversation about whether or not a coke can is really red, or we just think it's red. At this particular time in revolver sport shooting, there is the Smith and Wesson revolver..... then there's everything else.
  9. Another half turn with a screwdriver on the strain screw, and y'all be fine.
  10. I've been a gun nut for 50+ years, bought, sold or traded literally hundreds of firearms, pistols, revolvers, long guns and shotguns. Competed hard for 25 years, autos and revolvers. So I've had my share of playing with just about everything that was out there, and understand the intrigue with odd ball firearms . Which leads me to the question of, what is the real interest of the super GP Ruger? I can't see where it even meets, much less exceeds anything a S&W revolver is capable of? Is it just to have something different than what everyone else is running, or is there a feature or benefit to it over the Smith I'm just not aware of?
  11. As always, it's the Indian, it ain't the arrow.
  12. It's the Indian, not the arrow.
  13. Give Damn Good Bullets a look, much better profile, not as "pointy" and smoother, rounder shoulder. The upshot is they are considerably cheaper too. The 750 pack is 15 bucks cheaper than blue bullets. I've been using DG bullets for several years now, very satisfied with them.
  14. Bottle neck cases have never worked very well in revolvers. Years ago I had a 4" M27, chambered in what a short lived rage caliber, 44/357 Bain&Davis. 44 mag necked down to 357, crazy fun and mucho velocity, but after the 2nd cylinder full, you needed a double Jack to knock the fired cases free.
  15. Haven't seen what the official distance is, 7 or 10 yards?
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