Is dry firing a hammered revolver good for the gun? Just checking. I do have an iPhone how do I do slow motion?Yes.YEs. YES!
Also OP, If you can reload for her, loaf her some light 38 loads with Unique and plated bullets would really help. There’s only a couple reasons She’s having trouble.
1. Poor target acquisition/sight picture
2. Recoil sensitivity/poor trigger control.
She needs to dry fire...a lot. Also, if you have an IPhone, record her shooting on slow motion and review it with her. You’ll know pretty fast where her problems are coming from.
Is she cross eye dominant by any chance?
Fired 10 357 rounds and about 40 38spl but I think they are heavy 158gr type loads. I said you got 300rds why stop at 50? She just smiled and said she was done. I think it intimidates her or she’s flinching cause if I had a new gun and 300rds I’d be having some fun!If you decide to teach her and have a .22 handgun I would use that to teach her the basics. The distraction from the blast and recoil of most centerfires is unnecessary. Also I hope she hasn't been using full power .357 magnum loads to learn because that is a great way to alienate someone from firearms permanently. She may have developed a horrible flinch if she has been using full power .357 loads. I believe in training someone with a .22 to start because they can concentrate on fundamentals. I've been shooting over 50 years and own two .357 magnum revolvers and I load medium loads because I don't care for shooting full power loads even though both guns can take full power loads all day. Good luck
You’re also 6’7”. Lol.Fired 10 357 rounds and about 40 38spl but I think they are heavy 158gr type loads. I said you got 300rds why stop at 50? She just smiled and said she was done. I think it intimidates her or she’s flinching cause if I had a new gun and 300rds I’d be having some fun!
Is dry firing a hammered revolver good for the gun?
Is dry firing a hammered revolver good for the gun?
What happened to starting her off on something with low recoil? Start with a low recoil round, focus on the basics of gun handling and trigger discipline, be patient, positive, and supportive.Fired 10 357 rounds and about 40 38spl but I think they are heavy 158gr type loads. I said you got 300rds why stop at 50? She just smiled and said she was done. I think it intimidates her or she’s flinching cause if I had a new gun and 300rds I’d be having some fun!
She did this on her own and her first range trip. I was not involved in this session.What happened to starting her off on something with low recoil? Start with a low recoil round, focus on the basics of gun handling and trigger discipline, be patient, positive, and supportive.
Secondly, consider how you would feel if HE kills HER!
Cornered Kat dot com is where I send all my female friends interested in self protection.
Driver's Ed teachers are not held liable if a student drives recklessly or chooses to run over someone.I feel bad she goes to the range and can only hit a man target 5-10 times out of a box of ammo but I'm also worried i open myself up to liability.
Everybody says that the revolver is the perfect gun for new shooters and/or women. I disagree. I think they're one of the worst. They're noisy (thanks to barrel-cylinder gap), they have long heavy trigger pull, and they can have some serious kick (especially if shooting .357)
As an NRA certified instructor, I can tell you with complete confidence that NRA certification as a basic pistol instructor means little or nothing when it comes to competence with or teaching how to run a pistol. It's a place to start but I would highly recommend looking at the potential instructor's training history and talking to other students if possible. Any good instructor should be happy to provide credentials.NRA instructors are usually pretty good. Stick with them for basics.
https://www.nrainstructors.org/search.aspx
The next basic pistol course closest to me is $125 for an 8 hour course. Led by a NRA certified instructor. This is what she needs as a complete novice.
Are you saying this based on actual knowledge or just guessing? I'm interested on a personal level since I teach basic classes and certainly touch on what could be considered "tactics" at times (though I'm not really sure where exactly the line is).If you are teaching tactics, there can be some liability attached. If you are simply teaching the basics of gun handling and marksmanship, there really isn't much to worry about .
Easy to diagnose the flinching. Load the gun for her, randomly leaving out a round or two. Any flinching will be immediately evident to both of you when she gets to the empty chambers. Use snap caps if dry fire is a concern.I think it intimidates her or she’s flinching cause if I had a new gun and 300rds I’d be having some fun!
I have never understood the obsession with forcing women to carry revolvers.
Are you saying this based on actual knowledge or just guessing? I'm interested on a personal level since I teach basic classes and certainly touch on what could be considered "tactics" at times (though I'm not really sure where exactly the line is).
I appreciate your response. What I teach is nothing revolutionary, that's for sure. It does however, go beyond the typical "CHL" class here in Ohio. Most classes here are simply the NRA basic pistol course, which is essentially only useful to teach people how to fire a handgun on a flat range without accidentally shooting themselves or others. It teaches nothing about how to actually carry or use the weapon outside of that environment. It doesn't even touch on how to draw the weapon or the attributes of different holsters, even though most people taking the class are doing so in order to carry their handgun in public. One of the things I focus on is the critical need for students to get further, more advanced training, and part of that is showing them why we do certain things. That certainly starts to touch on what could be considered "tactics".Until my hip replace this past December (I have a matching pair now) I was a full time LE firearms and tactics instructor. I also am my agencies use of force legal instructor, and I have taught liability in the past for our supervisors. My statement is based on all that. In the LE context as an instructor I might end up on the stand for anything an officer said I taught them. The next step for me is to say that the agency signed off on my teaching, and then the agency says where they got it from. In the civilian world, there is no "agency" to fall back on when you to that part. You have to be able to articulate all the "why's" and "wherefore's" regarding whatever you're teaching. Pure marksmanship and weapon manipulation is going to be a very difficult thing for you to be successfully sued over. The 7 fundamentals and such are almost universal. Unless your marksmanship is so far off the between path as to potentially be negligent it will be very difficult to bring a case.
In your case if what you are teaching is "conventional" and widely used, you'll probably be okay. Also please note I'm not an attorney and nothing in the above constituted legal advice.
In your case if what you are teaching is "conventional" and widely used, you'll probably be okay. Also please note I'm not an attorney and nothing in the above constituted legal advice.