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  • BTF/PTM
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2008
    • 612

    Question about shooting form

    Ok, so yesterday I was at a local store/range buying a Ruger 10/22. A man comes out of the shooting range complaining that his gun is really beating up his hand. I didn't see the weapon, but he said it's a .45acp revolver that's "little and light". I look at his hand, it's bloody on the web of his thumb/index finger and also on the first pad of the index finger (the part that contacts the frame, I guess). He's even wearing a shooting glove and the gun is doing that much damage to his hand.

    Any idea what may have caused it? I had two guesses, either he's limp-wristing (limp-handing?) the gun so badly that it's sliding around in his hand and chewing up the skin, or his hands are so big compared to the "small and light" gun that he's covering the cylinder enough to get powder burns.

    To be dreadfully honest he kinda made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up so I didn't pry too much or ask to see the gun, I'm just curious as to what may have beat his hand up so bad.
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    paul0660
    In Memoriam
    • Jul 2007
    • 15669

    I guess it was one of these: http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/a...id=&ITATR_list[1]=1902&ITATR_list[2]=&ITATR_list[3]=302&ITATR_list[4]=&ITATR_list[5]=&ITATR_list[6]=&ITATR_list[7]=&ITATR_list[8]=&ITATR_list[9]=&ITATR_list[0]=


    edit.......i guess that link doesn't work. S&W makes several .45 revolvers, including a nightguard snubby. Sounds like a LOT of gun.
    Last edited by paul0660; 02-03-2009, 1:15 PM.
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    • #3
      Turbinator
      Administrator
      CGN Contributor - Lifetime
      • Oct 2005
      • 11930

      To the OP - Everyone shoots differently. Not sure if this guy was a gun owner or just a renter. I wouldn't get too nervous about it. I take it you don't own any handguns yet?

      Turby

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      • #4
        ironpete
        CGN/CGSSA Contributor
        • Dec 2007
        • 299

        I'd guess his grip is just bad...I certainly don't think it was the gun.

        I have a snub nosed 625-10, which shoots .45 Auto out of a 1 7/8" barrel.

        I have gotten blisters...after shooting 250 rounds of WWB during a steel shoot.

        In the course of maybe only 100 rounds I've had zero problems. I certainly wouldn't keep shooting it if it was killing me with gloves on.

        When I first started with my revolver I used the "thumbs forward" grip where my weak hand supported my master grip as used with semi-autos. I now use a "thumb over thumb" grip where the revolver grip is more sandwiched between my palms.

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        • #5
          PorkLover
          Senior Member
          • Apr 2008
          • 951

          yeah.....probably a renter........

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          • #6
            live2offroad
            Member
            • Apr 2008
            • 188

            Originally posted by ironpete
            I'd guess his grip is just bad...I certainly don't think it was the gun.

            I have a snub nosed 625-10, which shoots .45 Auto out of a 1 7/8" barrel.

            I have gotten blisters...after shooting 250 rounds of WWB during a steel shoot.

            In the course of maybe only 100 rounds I've had zero problems. I certainly wouldn't keep shooting it if it was killing me with gloves on.

            When I first started with my revolver I used the "thumbs forward" grip where my weak hand supported my master grip as used with semi-autos. I now use a "thumb over thumb" grip where the revolver grip is more sandwiched between my palms.

            -pete

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            • #7
              rayra
              Banned
              • Mar 2006
              • 1747

              Crappy grip by the shooter and possible on the handgun.
              You can run into problems if you have meaty hands, winding up with hammer bite on the top of you hand / thumb web area. Or even cuts along your index knuckle from the edge of a pistol slide whipping back and forth.
              But a proper and firm hold should preclude even that.

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              • #8
                odysseus
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                • Dec 2005
                • 10407

                One time years ago my uncle, who ran through different guns like soda, handed me a 1911 pattern gun while we were on the line. I can't exactly remember what it was - possibly a colt or sw. It was a 4" barrel and stainless. Anyway it didn't have a beaver tail. I just grabbed it where it felt natural and on my first shot the slide cut the web of my hand and I was bleeding.

                That was not fun, I cursed the weapon and never shot it again.

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