TheFriskiestDesert
Plinker
I agree with the glock 26 comment! Keep it in the glock family.
Boo! Nasty Glocks that work 99% of the time. Boo!
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I agree with the glock 26 comment! Keep it in the glock family.
What the is the point of a snubby with a full size grip?
C'mon INGO...Isn't someone going to run with that????
I put 100 rounds of .38sp through a rental 642 yesterday, and it shot high and right. I know ammo will affect vertical POI, but what can be done about left/right POI?
I put 100 rounds of .38sp through a rental 642 yesterday, and it shot high and right. I know ammo will affect vertical POI, but what can be done about left/right POI?
Lots of practice! Snubbies are probably the hardest handguns to learn to shoot well.
The groups, size wise, were fine. They were all just high and right.
Were you heeling the gun, perhaps?
Not much can be done about left/right if you don't have adjustable sights. Kentucky windage or get one that shoots right. Try a Ruger.
I was John McPhee-ing the gun, to the extent possible. I would have tested in SA, but I rented a hammerless as that's what I'm looking at buying for pocket carry.
Thumbs forward? A revolver grip is a bit different than a pistol grip. I've had the opposite problem of shooting a pistol with a revolver grip for a long time. Try looking up Massad Ayoob's "wedge grip" or whatever he calls it. Essentially thumbs locked together on the left side of the gun, middle finger of left hand tucked against the rear of the trigger guard, pointer finger pulled in on top of the middle finger to wedge it into the area where the grip meets the trigger guard.
Obviously difficult to diagnose, just offering possibilities. Generally when I shoot a revolver high/right, I'm heeling the gun. The only gun I usually have that issue with is my Redhawk with it's lousy DA pull. In short, as you are pulling the trigger you're also tensing the bottom of your hand to increase grip strength, shoving the butt of the gun forward and left, changing your POI up and to the right. Your groups will still be fine as you are consistently doing it and the movement in your palm is the same each time. You just won't hit where you're aiming.
Hold up left fingers and grab them with your right hand. Now squeeze hard with all your right hand fingers. Watch what the area of your palm just below the base of your thumb does. That's what I suspect you may be doing during your trigger pull with the unfamiliar revolver trigger.
You might want to take a look at a Ruger SP101 with a 2.25 inch barrel.
Strong thumb high and neutral, weak thumb forward, tight squeeze, push/pull... my thumb was probably too far forward as I ended up with a black thumbnail. It's the same grip I use since the class with my other revolvers (686, 29, GP100, Alaskan) with excellent results... or at least better results than what I was doing before.
You're probably correct about the "heeling;" the trigger on the rental gun was VERY heavy.