SA Revolver just fits?

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It may just be me but there is something about a Single Action Revolver that just fits my hand, points well. Sure other pistols both semi and wheel feel good in my hand and points well but for some reason the plow handle shape of a SA revolver grip just feels right...

Does anyone else feel this way or am I just off my rocker? Of course everyone is different and different pistols will feel better to some than others...
 
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I don't know if most do... Does seem most shoot better with them. Maybe they just don't want to admit that it fits them better than their hi cap autos?

Anyhow lets see if anyone else will come forward...
 
To me it seems to be one of the few guns designed entirely around the objective of shooting something. Not about having lots of bullets or looking cool. It points and aims, then releases the hammer with perfection. It's the ultimate in function.
 
robinkevin said:
It may just be me but there is something about a Single Action Revolver that just fits my hand, points well. Sure other pistols both semi and wheel feel good in my hand and points well but for some reason the plow handle shape of a SA revolver grip just feels right...

Does anyone else feel this way or am I just off my rocker? Of course everyone is different and different pistols will feel better to some than others...
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Preaching to the choir my friend!;)

LD
 
say "YEASSSSSS"

I am very comfortable with how a Single-Action Revolver "fits" my hands
 
I'm comfortable with single-action revolver grips. I'm actually more comfortable with the grip on the Pistol, M1911A1, .45 Cal. Of course, I carried one of those for 16 years in the Army (until it was replaced by that fat Beretta POS). Of all grip types out there, however, S&W K-frames in either round or square varieties feel best in my hand.

ECS

PS. You're not crazy.
 
Well at least I am not crazy. I like 1911 feel and K frame revolvers, but still not as much as single actions.

I just learn yesterday after starting this threat that Gunsite is now running a Defensive Revolver Single Action course? Guess that shows that people still love their Single Actions.
 
I'll be the first to say I find single action revolvers to be awkward. Too much of the gun is designed around being able to cock the hammer one handed. For me the grip is too rounded and is hard to index consistently. Most double action revolvers have a flat area near the top of the grips that keeps your strong hand in the correct position.
 
Ruger Blackhawk plow handle fits my hand perfectly. I can thumb cock it one handed pretty easily and efficiently.

I can't thumb cock a large frame Freedom Arms with Bisley style grip one handed. Just can't reach the hammer with my thumb.
 
56hawk said:
I'll be the first to say I find single action revolvers to be awkward. Too much of the gun is designed around being able to cock the hammer one handed. For me the grip is too rounded and is hard to index consistently. Most double action revolvers have a flat area near the top of the grips that keeps your strong hand in the correct position.
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Interesting view on your grip and indexing using the grip. I always thought that more of a semi auto thing where you have to be sure to reach the controls. For me the single action grip just simply doesn't need indexing it points as naturally for me as my finger.
 
I like the feel of a single action, based solely upon having had a NM Blackhawk. Although it always felt a little too big. Maybe the Colt SAA would feel better. I asked about that at an LGS recently and was told the new Vaquero really wasn't any differently sized in the grip frame, so getting one wouldn't improve that 'too big' feeling and that it was about the same as the Colt.

It's like this... I like and handle a GP100 just fine, but an SP101 feels perfect. I don't know if there is a major caliber SA revolver that would offer me the same sort difference in feel.

For this reason I really dig how an M1895 Nagant feels.
 
For me the SA "plowshare" hold did not come easily. There was a lot of odd trial and error to finally get it right. I'm OK with it now to where the style is comfy and fairly natural feeling.

On the other hand the very first time I picked up and shot a S&W DA with target grips it was like someone had grafted the gun to my body. It didn't matter if I'm shooting it in SA or DA. This style for me is as natural to shoot well as it is to point my finger.
 
The Colt SA grip is just about perfect for the low pressure loads in use when it was designed. When you get into higher performance .45 Colt or .41 Mag loads it's not so great. .44 Mag - fuggidaboutit. I have owned and shot Balckhawks for years but all my single actions are Bisleys now.
 
I haven't shot one in .45, hope to someday. Been many moons ago but the only .44 I ever shot was a Ruger Single Action, not sure what model and it wasn't bad. On the other hand I enjoy shooting .357 out of a Single Action much better than say a Colt DA... I don't know, maybe it's just me... Both are fun just for the record, and I would consider .357 a more high pressure load...

However I am not really thinking so much as soaking up recoil as naturally semi autos and DA revolvers with rubber grip are going to do that better than a SA but rather just the overall handling of the load.
 
Some things "just are", and some things "ain't'"

Old school fits for me, like SA.

Then again a lot of new fangled stuff is not about the user, instead the Intrawebz ,or marketing, or bottom line, or profit margin, or....or.... I could go, being a curmudgeon...

Some stuff is proven, still proving and to me, the gun we are speaking of is such.

Sending best-
steve
 
Your not crazy at all... well not for that at least. I don't know you well enough to say otherwise. But for me, I gotta say its a toss up between every SA revolver I've ever held and my Ruger GP100 with the original smooth rubber/wood inlay grip. SA are in my book just about right just about all of the time.
 
Drail said:
The Colt SA grip is just about perfect for the low pressure loads in use when it was designed. When you get into higher performance .45 Colt or .41 Mag loads it's not so great. .44 Mag - fuggidaboutit.
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I would have agreed with you for my first few rounds through my Super BH. But then I made up my fat necked custom grips that otherwise are regular SAA style. Now I can shoot full house .44Mags out of my SBH either one or two handed and the back of my middle finger on the trigger hand no longer wears any bruising. It's positively wonderful.

So I'd suggest that there's more to the whole SAA thing if we're willing to modify things a little to suit the power of the rounds and the size of the shooter's hands to deal with the extremes.
 
Love 'em here. Am glad for the Bisley on my .41, tho. My huntin' loads are a bit stiff, y'see... :cool:
 
It does feel mighty nice in the hand, and the gentle roll of recoil places everything in line to cock the hammer, bring it back down, and put another hole on ye olde target. And you get to play cowboy whilst all this is going on.
 
I took me a little time to figure out the fine nuances of the grip and adjust accordingly. Once I figured out how to comfortably and correctly grip one, I saw the light.
 
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