Post by bradshaw on Mar 29, 2019 20:58:24 GMT -5
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For this admission, you have my abiding respect. In years before handgun silhouette came along, I observed several otherwise sound shots who did not have it to learn the magnum revolver on a single action, yet who progressed refinement on a Model 29 or Model 28 or 27 or Model 57 Smith & Wesson. Near as I could tell they believed the old Bullseye malarkey to muscle the grip. Playing magnum, we go for the ride. Sometimes to learn the single action one must give away an old lover----in this case Old School technique. You cannot fight a jackhammer and you cannot fight a magnum. These beasts must be ridden.
IHMSA silhouette comes along.... nobody, no veteran arrives knowing it all. Got to breathe, keep breathing deeper.... down down down to where there is no oxygen.... to draw the next breath. The shot is made on the sights, and when the sights cannot be seen the shot is made in the mind. really, a TRIGGER SQUEEZE is infinite, a trigger squeeze sleeps inside your body no beginning no end. In this fashion your eye sees the sights.
SAS----Single Action Squeeze----the first act is to stop fighting. don’t fight a paint brush, a Steinway, an engraving tool, a welder, a revolver. Play it. Ride it.
Let it almost hit you in the head but not quite. Oh, you’ve got to hang onto a mountain bike ripping downhill. Drive your thighs into your skis, into the mountain, muscling steel edge across a slope of frozen ice.
TIME ON THE MOUNTAIN.
The single action cannot be mastered without time on the mountain. And if the single action grip just ain’t your thing, a double action awaits.
If there is a shortcut in marksmanship, it is to READ and SQUEEZE each shot like it’s the only one you have, no matter how fast.
Handgun Silhouette demonstrated for this shooter that, for some, day-in day-out, the double action grip, squeeze, and lock time remain more consistent.
Semantics aside, we explore every nuance in pursuit of sharpshooting.
David Bradshaw
