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Post by Lee Martin on Sept 21, 2021 18:35:06 GMT -5
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Post by bradshaw on Sept 21, 2021 20:42:46 GMT -5
Many thanks, Lee, for getting these pictures up. Keane and I met a couple decades ago at the old Hub City Club in Lafayette, Louisiana. Following five or six dry fires at a dummy jug, I was elated to see Keane blast a jug on his third shot. Dry fry at a thown jug affords the chance to see where the gun is vis a vis the target at hammer fall. The SHOT WINDOW is narrow----between horizon and ground----to prevent bullets going into orbit. A case of, “take your time as fast as possible.”
David Bradshaw
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Post by keano44 on Sept 21, 2021 21:53:24 GMT -5
Thank you Lee for posting these.
The load was 20 gr. IMR 4227, with a Remington 180 gr. SJHP. Avg. velocity is 1437 in the 7-1/2” gun, and close to 1500 in the 10-1/2” gun.
Thanks to David for the lesson, and coaching. I plan to do more hand thrown water jug shooting on my own, now. I had never attempted it before. After 6 “dummy” throws with an unloaded revolver, to get the mechanics down, I shot behind my first two attempts. Once I realized how fast that jug is accelerating on its way down, I knew I had to swing faster with it to stay on it, and I connected with the third attempt!
I picked up the revolvers from David a few days later, after he performed his magic on the triggers. They are greatly improved and will help make my long range shooting and hunting with these guns much more accurate!
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Post by bradshaw on Sept 22, 2021 14:14:20 GMT -5
After doing trigger work on Keane’s two Maximums, I had to try the 7-1/2” on an aerial water jug. My chance came as dark fell to make the sights invisible. The bullet didn’t notice, and found the jug in flight. I’ve long considered the Ruger Maximum a dueling pistol, a piece of blued elegance which happens to point well. Each squeeze of the trigger grows knowledge. Deliberation grows knowledge----communication from mind to muscle, and from muscle to mind.
In riflrey and handgunning, the eye is on the front sight, the mind on target. In shotgunning the eye is on the target. In aerial handgunning or other moving target the eye is on the sights and target at the same time, with focus at the front sight while reading rear sight (sight picture), simultaneously tracking target. The differences are specific. The shotgun is a spray machine with an acceptable CONE of DISPERSION. On moving targets, rifle and handgun have no cone of dispersion.
Some very good shotgunners just mash the trigger. Without a buttstock, the hand gunner cannot afford to “just mash the trigger.” That is why the hand gunner always squeezes. No matter how fast I shoot, I mean to squeeze the trigger. Not mash it. I like my muscles to sleep warmed up, always ready. From a purely competitive point, this is impossible. This is why it is important to end practice on a good note: so your mind goes to sleep with a smile on its face, ready to go.
David Bradshaw
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Post by contender on Sept 22, 2021 21:03:49 GMT -5
Excellent,, just excellent. Kudos Keane on learning & connecting with thrown jugs!
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Post by bradshaw on Sept 23, 2021 8:47:52 GMT -5
Excellent,, just excellent. Kudos Keane on learning & connecting with thrown jugs! ***** Tyrone.... may want to collect jugs for your next sixgun Bullets & BBQ gathering. Allow unlimited dry fire practice to orient stance, balance, sighting, etc.... David Bradshaw |
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Post by contender on Sept 23, 2021 16:32:40 GMT -5
Hah! I have some jugs,,, but I blew up a bunch recently. I shot my 480 again, doing better documenting,, with pics,, and then ha d a lot of "computer stupid (me) issues trying to get the pics where I can share them. I blew up 14 jugs with the 480, and then 6 with the .357 Maxi using the cast Bradshaw/Martin slug. I then tried to use the Maxi & shoot a Hornady 180 grn solid, but wasn't able to recover one. They kept veering out the side of a jug. I ran out of enough jugs. I'm collecting more,, but I doubt I'll have enough for us to "play" with next weekend.
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Post by needsmostuff on Sept 24, 2021 10:32:00 GMT -5
This is why it is important to end practice on a good note: so your mind goes to sleep with a smile on its face, ready to go. David Bradshaw Such great advice for life's little everything's ,,,,,,, not just shoothing . |
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Post by jayhawker on Sept 24, 2021 13:50:26 GMT -5
David,
When practising Fast Draw with wax bullets I never quit on a miss.
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Post by sixshot on Sept 24, 2021 20:06:03 GMT -5
Water jugs are hard to throw!! It's a little easier for me because I'm left handed but shoot right handed, actually I can shoot them either way because I've always been amphibious  Dick |
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Post by bradshaw on Sept 25, 2021 0:41:33 GMT -5
Water jugs are hard to throw!! It's a little easier for me because I'm left handed but shoot right handed, actually I can shoot them either way because I've always been amphibious Dick ***** You’d blend in, Dick. Amphibians and gumbo get along. David Bradshaw |
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