Posted on 06/07/2016 7:11:11 AM PDT by w1n1
We all love shooting handguns, but there are some that just don't know how to hold a small handgun. A video from EatalltheBirds addresses the problems, here's an excerpt from it:
The video starts out showing you what can happen if your hand is in front of a revolver cylinder and frame gap. Hot gases and even shaved bullet material can cause quite an injury. A piece of paper and a hot dog are stand ins for fingers in this gun safety test.
For semi-automatic pistols, the slide moves rapidly to the rear. If a thumb is in the way, you will certainly be hurting. Once again, a hot dog fills in the role of a badly placed thumb. See the video here.
Those are what my Academy instructors called “self-correcting” mistakes.
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This is real, and you have to watch how you hold your revolver. It is worse when the cylinder/forcing cone gap is larger, but still a problem even with the closest tolerance. It is worse when you get larger in caliber.
If you’re thinking it’s BS, take a close look at the Circuit Judge Revolver Rifle. They had to put a guard on the cylinder/frame junction to keep users from getting their hands damaged when the user tried to hold the rifle back farther than recommended.
ARFCOM had a guy post a picture of his thumb, BLOWN OPEN TO THE BONE, after he put if forward of the cylinder of his .500 SW Magnum. Crazy stupid.
The thumb injury from a recoiling slide is bad but that may not be the worst part. It could also induce a failure to extract, stovepipe or failure to feed malfunction that would require you to clear the weapon before a follow-up shot. That might be the difference between life and death.
Aw. I thought he was gonna hold it sideways for us. You know, gangsta style.
Even worse in front of the cylinder of a black powder revolver, especially if the chambers are filled with grease after loading. A flashback could fire additional chambers. Main reason the Colt revolving rifle was not popular.
I taught Jerry Miculek how to shoot. Yeah, that’s the ticket. My wife, uh, Sophia Vergara.........
I tried shooting left handed for the first time and didn’t take the time to check the right hand’s thumb position and the slide dug pretty good into the base knuckle of the right thumb. I had it wrapped around the left hand and not laying along side it. I learned...
Just the other day I shot 50 rounds though my 9mm Taurus semi-auto pistol, and held my left hand on the barrel to steady the gun. There was no problem of any kind, and even the person at the desk was impressed when I showed her the target pattern from my shooting.
Very astute. Thank you.
They need to come up with a “Hood Haka,” and that would fit in nicely.
Haka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI851yJUQQw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiuPb50E1vg
Took some debris in the temple a number of years back from a shooter on the line next to me.
I wasn’t in line with the gap either. Always try to wear a good set of curved style shooting classes.
Its also why silencers don’t work very well on revolvers.
That’s why when I’m in a range I make sure my head isn’t in line (or near it) with a shooter next door. :0)
I was easily 3 feet behind the barrel gap.
He was shooting cast bullets. Probably shaving the hell out of them in the forcing cone.
Lets all be careful out there.
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