Master Blaster
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I wanted to share my experience at the range with my 642 .
Yesterday I went to my club for some practice, since there were no bullseye shooters there, I decided to get in a little practice drawing and firing from my pocket holster with my 642.
I practice at 5 feet, 10 feet, 15 feet, and 10 yards, likely distances for self defense scenarios. I can point shoot to 15 feet and hit inside the 2.5" 8 ring of a 50 ft bullseye target with the first shot in most cases due to a great deal of practice doing this. I like my 642, its very accurate and has a nice smooth trigger. The load I was using for practice is a 135 gr speer gold dot over 5.2 grains of Unique. This is my attempt to duplicate the factory 135 gr +p speer FBI load. I fired 50 rounds drawing and firing single shots and double taps at two targets.
So I was doing my draw and fire from about 15 feet away, and I finished a cylinder and went to reload and the cylinder would not close. I dumped the rounds and looked under the extractor star and sure enough stuck to the back of it was a flake of unburned Unique powder.
Brushed it off with my finger and reloaded no problem.
This is a rare event and I cant remember the last time it happened, but its something to be aware of. Revolvers can malfunction.
Yesterday I went to my club for some practice, since there were no bullseye shooters there, I decided to get in a little practice drawing and firing from my pocket holster with my 642.
I practice at 5 feet, 10 feet, 15 feet, and 10 yards, likely distances for self defense scenarios. I can point shoot to 15 feet and hit inside the 2.5" 8 ring of a 50 ft bullseye target with the first shot in most cases due to a great deal of practice doing this. I like my 642, its very accurate and has a nice smooth trigger. The load I was using for practice is a 135 gr speer gold dot over 5.2 grains of Unique. This is my attempt to duplicate the factory 135 gr +p speer FBI load. I fired 50 rounds drawing and firing single shots and double taps at two targets.
So I was doing my draw and fire from about 15 feet away, and I finished a cylinder and went to reload and the cylinder would not close. I dumped the rounds and looked under the extractor star and sure enough stuck to the back of it was a flake of unburned Unique powder.
Brushed it off with my finger and reloaded no problem.
This is a rare event and I cant remember the last time it happened, but its something to be aware of. Revolvers can malfunction.