Posted on 08/25/2016 5:07:29 AM PDT by w1n1
The shooters likely spend the vast majority of their time shooting a single pistol, so of course their performance would be better doing this... it is like saying shooting right handed is better, when the shooter who does the test is right handed! Not that I dispute the results personally, because I shoot with one pistol nearly all the time also, but there are trick shooters who are very good with two pistols. The correct comparison would be a sample of shooters who excel at each method and have sufficient training directly related to the task being measured (walking approach to target from 30 yards).
I was confused by the title so I had to look it up.
Generally speaking, a pistol is a handgun and a handgun is a pistol.
http://www.differencebetween.net/object/difference-between-pistol-and-handgun/
You have to get into the weeds to really come up with a difference. i.e. this is not the “clip vs magazine” sort of thing.
All pistols are handguns, but not all handguns are pistols. Technically, a revolver is not a pistol.
Yes. I think a better title would have been two revolvers vs one pistol. Scratch that. I KNOW it would have been a better title.
It isn’t one or two guns. It is the level of practice and training on the part shooter.
I have seen some people load and fire shells one at time from shotgun faster than I can cycle them through using a pump.
Used to be in TX when a person got their CHL that if they qualified with a wheelgun they were only authorized to carry a wheelgun but if they qualified with a semi they were authorized to carry either a semi or a wheelgun.
I say wheel gun instead of revolver just because it’s a cool word.
“Wheelgun” does sound pretty cool. :-)
I think the person firing the weapon determines accuracy. Rate of fire only applies if you’re dealing with multiple targets in a short time span.
One shot in the chest with a .45 does wonders to discoursge an attacker.
What revolvers? Says they used an H&K .45 Compact and a custom Colt 1911.
You’ll notice that the shooter in the ‘dual pistol’ case extends and retracts whatever arm is up on line. Of course this takes a lot of time. In the single shooter’s case I bet the extension was always the same. I’d like to see a test of both arms extended against a single shooter in that case.
I’d guess that the dual pistols thing was more of a single action era likelihood.
What revolvers? Says they used an H&K .45 Compact and a custom Colt 1911.
The title confuses the reader. The inference is that the two handguns are not pistols. Otherwise they would have said “pistols.”
It’s only a pet peeve of mine because I’m a black and white thinker and actually have syntax errors sometimes. I read the headline and say, “well, since a pistol is a type of handgun and the single gun is a pistol, then the other handguns are not pistols, or the author would have said “dual pistols”. And then I get wrapped around the axle about why two “non-pistol” handguns are different than one pistol.
NYPD used to practice the "New York Reload" (grab your backup gun when your primary runs dry). This was more prevalent in the revolver days.
I should practice reloading my pistol while also holding backup gun in other hand (it can be done -- use pinky and ring finger to grab and insert spare mag, while holding backup gun with other fingers)
Rate of fire has little to do with accuracy. Rate of fire is important when covering someone's movement. It is more important to cause the threat to seek shelter than to hit the threat.
“Id like to see a test of both arms extended against a single shooter in that case.”
To so that you have to be firing both eyes open and with the weapon(s) not in line with the eye. Otherwise they get so close together you can scrap up your hand with the opposite side pistol recoil.
Firing two at once as fast as one can be done, I think, but would take a LOT od dedicated practice. You have to be able to point shoot with either hand out of line of your head.
And even if you COULD do that, you lose your speed advantage as soon as you have to reload.
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