Post by maxcactus on Jan 16, 2012 1:07:39 GMT -5
1st, make sure your revolver is capable of good accuracy. Check the bore/chamber alignment for each chamber.
THEN you can concentrate on your technique with confidence.
With all due respect, the overwhelming majority of all firearms, rifles or handguns, are capable of far greater accuracy than the nut behind the trigger is capable of squeezing out of them. I would suspect that if a shooter is asking the question of "What can I do to improve my shooting accuracy?" the odds are also overwhelming that said shooter doesn't have the tools (range rods), knowledge and experience necessary to see if his barrel and chambers align correctly. I would guess of 1000 revolvers sent to any custom revolversmith for customization, less than 1% suffer from barrel/bore misalignment significant enough to cause accuracy problems. Far more useful to any shooter, novice or experienced, are good sights, a good trigger/smooth action, and grips that fit the hand well, accompanied of course by a lot of practice, and then a WHOLE lot more!
For a real understanding of accurate revolver shooting, I would suggest some good books by the living legend himself, John Taffin, but especially that scholarly tome by the dean of handgunnery, Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting by Ed McGivern. McGivern suggests starting with a .22 caliber revolver and shooting a MINIMUM of 30,000 rouds before advancing to anything in .38 caliber, let alone larger. While many of us may be guilty of "passing go" & starting at the top and working our way up from there (i.e. .4X caliber), a smart man would heed McGivern's advice and start small and shoot plenty.
After much practice, load development would be the next most logical place to turn as this is within the budget and control of most any shooter while fixing a barrel/bore misalignment is not. Of course if after a good bit of deliberate practice and load development a fellow's sixgun still isn't shooting well for him and some more experienced friends, then a trip to the smith may be in order for some diagnosis.
Max.