Posted: 3/5/2012 1:00:47 PM EDT
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Some of the guys here were talking about an old (and very cool) Smith Mod. 65 (former Oklahoma DoC gun) and Dan said:
"What Nden says is true about it probably having 38 Special shot through it quite a bit. You should practice shooting it double action often. Pull the trigger until it is about to break, then make an effort to realign the front sight on target as much as possible. Enough times and it will become instinctual, even in rapid fire. Shooting double action well will also help with your trigger pull on all types of firearms. Single action will be a breeze after shooting double action enough. You will learn to come off the trigger all the way which is a good safety factor for handling firearms in preventing an unintended second shot. It will also help with shooting two stage military style triggers. You've done real well for yourself youngster!" ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- He makes some good points there. I shoot a lot of competition years ago with a Smith 686 and did quite well using similar double action techniques. I'm not so sure about fully coming off the trigger being some sort of safety factor though. Would that apply towards semi-auto's too or just revolvers? |
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Once you learn to shoot a revolver double action well, you pretty much quit shooting single action, double action can be very accurate with practice. I started competing in Bullseye competition in the late 60's, shooting strictly single action, worked my way up to an Expert rating in Bullseye competition, I started shooting PPC in the mid 80's, with a lot of practice I worked up to Master in PPC, I was shooting far more accurately double action than I had single action.  |
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Once you learn to shoot a revolver double action well, you pretty much quit shooting single action, double action can be very accurate with practice. I started competing in Bullseye competition in the late 60's, shooting strictly single action, worked my way up to an Expert rating in Bullseye competition, I started shooting PPC in the mid 80's, with a lot of practice I worked up to Master in PPC, I was shooting far more accurately double action than I had single action. http://www.wingman26.com/images/shooting/PPC.jpg Damn.... you're old! Maybe even giving Dan a run for him money! 
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Once you learn to shoot a revolver double action well, you pretty much quit shooting single action, double action can be very accurate with practice. I started competing in Bullseye competition in the late 60's, shooting strictly single action, worked my way up to an Expert rating in Bullseye competition, I started shooting PPC in the mid 80's, with a lot of practice I worked up to Master in PPC, I was shooting far more accurately double action than I had single action. http://www.wingman26.com/images/shooting/PPC.jpg Damn.... you're old! Maybe even giving Dan a run for him money!
Hell, he's even older than Chuck or me!!! The only one older than him here will strafe your house with a mini-gun on his chopper if you make a smart comment.
Be careful where you step, PC! This ain't the men's restroom. 
Seriously, shooting DA with a revolver and getting good at it will greatly improve your shooting with all types of firearms. Wingman has a really sweet PPC gun built for him by Royce Weddle. That man had one hell of a name for PPC guns and shooting PPC back in the 70s and 80s. I can do pretty good with an S&W revolver DA even if I haven't shot one for awhile. Several hundred rounds a week for a couple of years has really stuck with me. Even after 30 years. Back in the late 70s we shot off a bridge at cans moving in the stream. We'd throw several cans in, then blaze away. (Back then no one really worried about pollution.) We got good at it. And many times it was instinctual shooting. I've told this story before but I killed three coyotes at one time during muzzleloader season. The first one was with the Encore 50 cal, the last two were with three shots from a Model 65. One shot missed. I can't really say if I even saw the front sight. I just don't know. But killing two running coyotes at 40+ yards with a revolver at dusk was all due to shooting lots of DA with a revolver years ago. Now that I'm developing macular degeneration in my eyes, I'm glad I do have some point shooting ability with a revolver that was developed years ago. 
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hell I seen the topic of this thread and thought somebody was posting about roy rodgers
I have a hard enough time hitting anything with a rifle or shotgun, so with a handgun I just point, shoot and hope for the best .Yeah, like popping the head off a daisy at 200 yards that day out at TriCity? 
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Once you learn to shoot a revolver double action well, you pretty much quit shooting single action, double action can be very accurate with practice. I started competing in Bullseye competition in the late 60's, shooting strictly single action, worked my way up to an Expert rating in Bullseye competition, I started shooting PPC in the mid 80's, with a lot of practice I worked up to Master in PPC, I was shooting far more accurately double action than I had single action. http://www.wingman26.com/images/shooting/PPC.jpg That certification card became effective ~2.5 months before I was born. 
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Once you learn to shoot a revolver double action well, you pretty much quit shooting single action, double action can be very accurate with practice. I started competing in Bullseye competition in the late 60's, shooting strictly single action, worked my way up to an Expert rating in Bullseye competition, I started shooting PPC in the mid 80's, with a lot of practice I worked up to Master in PPC, I was shooting far more accurately double action than I had single action. http://www.wingman26.com/images/shooting/PPC.jpg That certification card became effective ~2.5 months before I was born. Youngin'
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Once you learn to shoot a revolver double action well, you pretty much quit shooting single action, double action can be very accurate with practice. I started competing in Bullseye competition in the late 60's, shooting strictly single action, worked my way up to an Expert rating in Bullseye competition, I started shooting PPC in the mid 80's, with a lot of practice I worked up to Master in PPC, I was shooting far more accurately double action than I had single action. http://www.wingman26.com/images/shooting/PPC.jpg That certification card became effective ~2.5 months before I was born. Youngin'
I was only 4 at that time Damn that makes me feel old. I had a drivers license for 24 years in '88 |
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Once you learn to shoot a revolver double action well, you pretty much quit shooting single action, double action can be very accurate with practice. I started competing in Bullseye competition in the late 60's, shooting strictly single action, worked my way up to an Expert rating in Bullseye competition, I started shooting PPC in the mid 80's, with a lot of practice I worked up to Master in PPC, I was shooting far more accurately double action than I had single action. http://www.wingman26.com/images/shooting/PPC.jpg That certification card became effective ~2.5 months before I was born. Youngin'
I was only 4 at that time Damn that makes me feel old. I had a drivers license for 24 years in '88 I got my first one in '88! 
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Once you learn to shoot a revolver double action well, you pretty much quit shooting single action, double action can be very accurate with practice. I started competing in Bullseye competition in the late 60's, shooting strictly single action, worked my way up to an Expert rating in Bullseye competition, I started shooting PPC in the mid 80's, with a lot of practice I worked up to Master in PPC, I was shooting far more accurately double action than I had single action. http://www.wingman26.com/images/shooting/PPC.jpg That certification card became effective ~2.5 months before I was born. Youngin'
I was only 4 at that time Damn that makes me feel old. I had a drivers license for 24 years in '88 holyshit..................I just graduated high school and went walkabout under the western skies |