ChristopherG
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Bill Jordan's book, "No Second Place Winner", was recommended to me by the kind folks in the Revolver forum, and I'm indebted to them for it. Very nicely written, concise, and full of concrete information and advice with a bare minimum of the kind of anecdote that often makes up too much of such works. A truly worthwhile read from a guy who clearly knew his stuff.
In speaking of training for point and 'hip' shooting, Jordan enthusiastically recommends the use of wax 'wadcutters' made by using an empty (straight sided only, I'd think) casing to cut a 'biscuit' or wadcutter out of a 1/2 inch thick sheet of paraffin; gently pushing this improvised wadcutter to the base of the case; and then (and only when you're nearly ready to use the round, as the paraffin will 'creep' and contaminate the primer with time) putting in a primer (he used CCI magnum primers in .38 cases). This produces a 'squib' load that he credits with excellent accuracy to 20 or 25 feet, and with dramatically reduced noise and danger, particularly for one practicing the fast draw-and-shoot techniques Jordan describes (lots of series of detailed high-speed pics of Jordan doing draw-and-shoot [and hit] excercises, on external cues, in around 0.3 seconds. He says an 'average' shooter can get down to around 0.6 with practice, which would be an exponential reduction for some of us ).
This looks like fun to me; any of you tried it?
CG
In speaking of training for point and 'hip' shooting, Jordan enthusiastically recommends the use of wax 'wadcutters' made by using an empty (straight sided only, I'd think) casing to cut a 'biscuit' or wadcutter out of a 1/2 inch thick sheet of paraffin; gently pushing this improvised wadcutter to the base of the case; and then (and only when you're nearly ready to use the round, as the paraffin will 'creep' and contaminate the primer with time) putting in a primer (he used CCI magnum primers in .38 cases). This produces a 'squib' load that he credits with excellent accuracy to 20 or 25 feet, and with dramatically reduced noise and danger, particularly for one practicing the fast draw-and-shoot techniques Jordan describes (lots of series of detailed high-speed pics of Jordan doing draw-and-shoot [and hit] excercises, on external cues, in around 0.3 seconds. He says an 'average' shooter can get down to around 0.6 with practice, which would be an exponential reduction for some of us ).
This looks like fun to me; any of you tried it?
CG