New shooter report

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Greg
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I have another update. Was sort-of working from home Tuesday, and I had a few hours in between some meetings... so I went to the range again. Except this time I took my 686.

Mind you, this was my first experience firing centerfire *anything*. Yes, all my previous experience was 22lr. I had a box of Speer Lawman practice ammo and some Shoot-n-See 3" bull stickers to replace my high-tech Sparpie marks.

The recoil and blast were more than a 22, yes, but... kind of fun. SA I could put an entire cylinder (6 shots) into the 3" black at 20'. I did that twice, to show the problem was not the gun or my sights because well DA was not so good. Firing DA, all my shots were, to a greater or lesser degree (miss distance) down and to the right about 45deg from the aiming point. Average miss was about 5". At least I kept them all on the paper.

All I can think of is that I was instinctively gripping too hard when I pulled the trigger.
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Watch all of these, you'll learn a lot.
Been shooting wheelguns for nearly 30 years and I picked up quite a bit.

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Thanks for that link Whirlibird,

I just watched all the videos with my older kids and did some work with a Ruger SP101. I think all of us learned some stuff.

Too bad I couldn't see an easy way to save the videos, I'd love to put them on my portable player and reference them at the range.
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