HighValleyRanch
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A little excitement at the ccw qualifying range today....
I can't remember who it was, but a well know revolver instructor wrote about this. He was running a revolver class, and asked the students to load their revolvers as quick as possible starting with an empty cylinder.
Some fiddled with loose rounds, some with their speed loaders, some with speed strips, all trying to load five or six as fast as possible. So then he demonstrated and loaded one round and made a perfect shot. The jest being that when time is golden, loading only one critical round might get you out of the jamb. I always remembered this story and it came in really handy for me today during qualifying with my new Kimber K-6.
I had shot a perfect score in the inner circle on the standard sillouette target from ten yards, and now we were on the five yard line. Five rounds in 15 seconds is generous, so no problems with that.
First four shots were dead center in the inner ring. But on the fifth shot, the revolver jammed. Could not put the trigger as the cylinder was frozen. Time was ticking and so I immediately opened the cylinder and inspected and saw that I had one round that was not dented, so I closed the cylnder as fast as I could, but it didn't line up and I had to pull four times to quickly rotate the chamber around again to fire, but dang if it didn't freeze up again at that point.
By now I was down on time, and had to act quickly. I dumped out all the cases and unused round, and was going for my speed loader, when I remembered the above theory, that one round loaded should be good enough in a desparate situation. I quickly grabbed a loose single round from my back pocket, popped it into a chamber lined it up into the next rotation and finished the string before the RO called time with a perfect score!.
SO, sometime what you read on the internet can work out!LOL
Wasn't a super tight group, but did score 100 percent with that little snubby.
I'm pretty sure it was a high primer, or mis manufacture factory load, but never got to check it out having dumped it on the ground.
I can't remember who it was, but a well know revolver instructor wrote about this. He was running a revolver class, and asked the students to load their revolvers as quick as possible starting with an empty cylinder.
Some fiddled with loose rounds, some with their speed loaders, some with speed strips, all trying to load five or six as fast as possible. So then he demonstrated and loaded one round and made a perfect shot. The jest being that when time is golden, loading only one critical round might get you out of the jamb. I always remembered this story and it came in really handy for me today during qualifying with my new Kimber K-6.
I had shot a perfect score in the inner circle on the standard sillouette target from ten yards, and now we were on the five yard line. Five rounds in 15 seconds is generous, so no problems with that.
First four shots were dead center in the inner ring. But on the fifth shot, the revolver jammed. Could not put the trigger as the cylinder was frozen. Time was ticking and so I immediately opened the cylinder and inspected and saw that I had one round that was not dented, so I closed the cylnder as fast as I could, but it didn't line up and I had to pull four times to quickly rotate the chamber around again to fire, but dang if it didn't freeze up again at that point.
By now I was down on time, and had to act quickly. I dumped out all the cases and unused round, and was going for my speed loader, when I remembered the above theory, that one round loaded should be good enough in a desparate situation. I quickly grabbed a loose single round from my back pocket, popped it into a chamber lined it up into the next rotation and finished the string before the RO called time with a perfect score!.
SO, sometime what you read on the internet can work out!LOL
Wasn't a super tight group, but did score 100 percent with that little snubby.
I'm pretty sure it was a high primer, or mis manufacture factory load, but never got to check it out having dumped it on the ground.
