"Mastering the Defensive Snub Revolver"

[Third_Rail]

...by Northeastern Tactical Schools.
Sounds like a neat class, taught by Michael de Bethencourt - I'll be attending tomorrow AM.

I'll post here with a review.


Has anyone gone to his courses?

 

[DR]

I took the class at Harvard Sportsmen's Club a couple of months ago. It was well worth the price of admission. There are some snubbie specific things that I would expect to get either glossed over or omitted in most defensive pistol courses.

"Don't get greedy!"

 

[MK11]

Very good class. Challenges a lot of the common wisdom.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=152898

 

[Third_Rail]

Great, great great class!

I loved it. If you have the time, and if it's in your area, GO TO THIS CLASS. He won't be offering it forever, and it is a really, really new SOP to go by - I like the way he instructs to always hold the revolver in the dominant hand, reloading and all. It's quite a fun class, too.

 

[HighVelocity]

I hope somebody in this area offers a snub class. Sounds like a lot of fun was had right along with the learning.

 

[sm]

Third_Rail,
Sounds Great! Thanks you for sharing. Though I have not attended a known school - I have had training by experience persons with revolvers and in particular snubbies. One fella was a member of a SWAT team. He used his snubbie to kill a BG as he was falling ( actually bounced off pavement after he had been shot and got the shots off - his partner was killed in this ambush during some 'disturbances'. .

Same guy that used to strip off the slide off a Beretta semi so fast and leave students with nothing but a frame in hand . "go ahead and try to shoot me with only a frame". With students slide in hand - grinning.

NO the snubby is NOT antiquated. One - if open minded - learns from history. One such lesson is Software trumps hardware. Always the archer - not the arrow. Not the platform, but the one using the platform.

Aforementioned fella, started out as beat cop, Model 19 and model 36 as BUG, back when shooting to 50 YARDS was part of the quals. He was allowed to carry a 1911 - GI bone stock Gov't model, still the 36 as a BUG.

I have taken his "lessons" and watched him in close quarters disable semi's an revos alike. Seen him outshoot folks with his 36 and they using expensive semis. He is going to die soon, sad, so many lessons to learn - not enough time to learn from him.

"damn thing saved my life, ain't ammo dependent, and I had to draw BUG weak - handed ( where he kept it) as I fell , trying to help my pard...with strong hand...it was a bad bad night...".

Two shots off the bounce, COM, less than 1" apart, 3 yard distance. I listen to folks like this.

 

[Jrob24]

Master This!



(camera is on timer, finger is not on trigger)

 

[FedGunner]

That gangsta impresses the hell outta me.

 

[Third_Rail]

Jrob24, you'd enjoy his classes.

SM - we did shooting at 50 yards and 100 yards. Fun to hit the target at that range, as unlikely as it seemed! 4 out of 5 at 50, 2 out of 5 at 100. Snubs are no longer "close range only" in my mind!

 

[Jrob24]

SM - we did shooting at 50 yards and 100 yards. Fun to hit the target at that range, as unlikely as it seemed! 4 out of 5 at 50, 2 out of 5 at 100. Snubs are no longer "close range only" in my mind!

Third Rail you must've been using that "taking your time to aim" hack that us playas ain't got the time fo . Which model snub did you use? and were you firing single action?

 

[IndianaDean]

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