Tips for Shooting a Wheel Gun

["DoubleAction"]

...For shooting, I use the Wood Checkered Hogues, these grips provides me with good control with the opened backstrap, the finger grooves provides a firm grip from shot to shot, and places my hand high, placing my web of my shooting hand closer to the center of axis of bore and in alignment of my forearm. Shooting the Python, and other double action revolvers, is done using a long smooth trigger stroke, this means the finger should needs to isolate itself from the rest of the hand, to prevent pulling the muzzle down when the shot is fired. Doing this means concentration on the front sight and trigger squeeze while maintaining a firm and stable grip with the revolver.The Python trigger is smooth,with very little stacking, once broken in, but as you squeeze it through it might get slightly stiffer as the hammer is drawn to the rear ( two stage stacking ).When the trigger does this, you will set your shot and squeeze through, because the cylinder rotation will have completed most of it's cycle.The V- Spring of the Python is very smooth and the hammer fall is longer than the S&Ws.Shooting the Python on single action,by manally thumb cocking the hammer, is unfair to the you and the refined lockwork of this great gun, it is designed as a Combat Revolver and needs to be shot like one.No matter how good the handgun is, it is no better than the person holding it.Follow up shots come easy with the Python, that is how it was designed.The 4" is my favorite, some people like Massad Ayoob uses the Rubber Packmayer Grippers on his 4" Python, I did, but I switched over to the wood opened back Hogue Grips.

[TMan]

Watch the positioning of the thumb on the support hand. I let a friend shoot my S&W 460 XVR (X-Frame like the 500), and I was on the strong-hand side. I didn't see the location of his thumb. He got burned, but it could have been much worse. (Apparently, I have a close cylinder to forcing cone fit.)

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How NOT to do it:

Results if you do it that way:

Perhaps the Russian M1895 Nagant design had some merit. I love mine except for the heavy trigger pull. Some day I'll do something about that. What you don't hear much about is even with the heavy trigger pull, it is a fairly precise shooter. I get good accuracy with mine.

Here is video review of the M1895:

In think it is the world's safest revolver.

["DoubleAction"]

Learning About Gun Control : The Hard Way

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[MLB]

I may get some time to meet up with a co-worker this weekend to do a bit of shooting. He recently bought a Nagant revolver that I'd like to try.

[5ontarget]

Nagant revolvers are fun indeed, and remarkably simple, even with the cylinder movement. The ammo doesn't come cheap and isn't at the local sporting goods store. But at less than $100 for the gun, I guess we can spring for some ammo.

I've not tried the .32 conversion cylinders, nor shooting .32 S&W longs through the factory cylinder.

[MLB]

We met up at the range today, but it was a double washout. His Nagant wasn't back from the gunsmith, and the range he picked had a 2.5 hour wait.

I'm not waiting at any range for 2.5 hours if I have to pay to be there.

["DoubleAction"]