One-handed shooting

[Mute]

I practice one handed shooting, reloading and malfunction clearing with strong and weak hand. If you plan on using a gun for self defense purposes, these are skills you should develop and practice regularly.

[Rob P.]

Practice while you're injured. You'll learn valuable skills as well as pain management. My wrist and finger injury didn't stop me even though they hurt like dickens while shooting. (it did affect my accuracy a bit though.)

As for shooting a rifle or shotgun, bend the injured arm at the elbow and hold it horizontal in front of your chest, Now rest the forend of the long arm on your forearm. Instant bench rest.

Recoil will lift the rifle off your arm a bit but it won't "slam" down. If you use the back of your arm where the muscles are you shouldn't have any problems.

Reloading a magazine is hard to do and very slow but it can be done with just one hand. Practice that too. Besides, who goes to the range just to bang out a couple hundred rounds in 15 mins anyway. I go to spend some time and practice. So if I'm there an hour or so, who cares - I certainly don't.

[VeryCoolCat]

I practice one handed shooting, reloading and malfunction clearing with strong and weak hand. If you plan on using a gun for self defense purposes, these are skills you should develop and practice regularly.

Have you practiced two at the same time, one per each hand?

[maxicon]

I practice one handed shooting, reloading and malfunction clearing with strong and weak hand. If you plan on using a gun for self defense purposes, these are skills you should develop and practice regularly.

+1!

Anyone who wants to prepare for the possibilities needs to practice their main defense weapons one handed, both strong and weak. You'll typically find those nice ragged holes you get with your two-handed grip turn into shotgun patterns with a weak-hand only grip, especially on DAO and revolvers. Remember how that strong-hand trigger control was when you first started shooting? That's how your weak hand is if you don't use it!

Practice, practice, practice - especially the stuff you're not good at!

[savasyn]

Have you practiced two at the same time, one per each hand?

Only with my wrists crossed while shooting full auto Mac-10s and flying through the air blasting away with double Berettas Woo-style.

Honestly, I never saw the need to use two guns at the same time. I'd rather shoot one well than two poorly.

[Mute]

Have you practiced two at the same time, one per each hand?

Only when I can wear my cap sideways and yell, "Fo' Shizzle!", while canting both weapons 90 degrees to the side and smiling with gold bling on my two front teeth sparkling in the setting sun.

[maxicon]

Only with my wrists crossed while shooting full auto Mac-10s and flying through the air blasting away with double Berettas Woo-style.

Honestly, I never saw the need to use two guns at the same time. I'd rather shoot one well than two poorly.

This one time, at shooting camp...

Out in the desert in Arizona, my brother and I brought identical Ruger MK512s (bull-barrel MkII), so it seemed like a good time to try the Tomb Raider style - load'em up and hose down a few cans two-handed!

Couldn't hit what I was shooting at for beans. Even my strong hand shooting was much worse than shooting a single gun. I ran about 100 rounds through (both normal style and gang-banger style), and didn't get any better by the end, but at least with a .22, I didn't feel like it was too much ammo wasted.

I tried pulling the triggers in sync and alternating them, but nothing helped.

[BaronW]

So now that I have my cast on, I wish I had a VFG for my shotgun - that would make it useable.

[N6ATF]

I can rack the shotgun one handed but loading any firearm one handed is going to take some practive.

Do you flip it backwards and rack it under your armpit like The Rock in "The Rundown"?

LOL

[RossRinSD]

Sarah Connor was able to use a pump action against the T1000 with an injured arm/shoulder in T2: Judgement Day.

Thatz how you rack a pump isn't it. I mean, thatz how my badass does it...

[rivviepop]

hah this thread is funny, I think we have a few closet homiez in the crowd.

I practice this neat drill from the Chabot website, it includes strong and weak one-handed stages.

http://chabotgunclub.com/ppc.htm

Stage 1 - 15 yds. 6 rds in 30 seconds, any standing position.
Stage 2 - 7 yds. 14 rds in 45 seconds, incl. 2 reloads of 6, 6, & 2; 6 standing & 8 kneeling.
Stage 3 - 7 yds. 6 rds in 10 seconds, any position
Stage 4 - 7 yds. 12 rds in 25 seconds, incl. 1 reload of 6: 6 from strong hand & 6 from weak hand both unsupported.
Stage 5 - 5 yds 6 rds: 3 rds in 4 seconds in 2 stages
Stage 6 - 3 yds 6 rds: 2 rds in 3 seconds in 3 stages

I usually double the range and round counts more or less, otherwise it goes a little too quick and you don't get enough practice. this practice has shown me I can actually aim/hit better with my weak one-handed rather than the strong, which I find interesting. I will say that the 2.7lbs of steel at the end of my one-handed stance gets heavy fast...

never tried loading a mag with the left hand only, that's something new to try. heck it's hard enough with two hands to get that last round in... ("9 rds? are you kidding? CZ gave me 19 and CA took 9 away already, oh hell no 10 are going in this mag. 10.")

[ar15barrels]

At last sunday's day and night matches, we had a stage that you shot 4 ways: freestyle, weak hand supported, strong hand unsupported and weak hand unsupported.

I did better than expected, taking fast time on that stage by 24 seconds during the day.

Stage 2 in these results:

http://lesamatch.com/images/111107D.pdf

[JMB1911]

I try one hand shooting everytime I go to the gun range. I shoot .45s off a 1911. The shots are scattered but are all in the man-sized silhoutte target at distances of less than 7 yards. I think I can get a nice group going with practice, practice, practice. There's a guy that goes to my range that shoots one handed all day long hitting head shots at 15 yards with a 1911. And that's at pace of 1 shot per second!

[Kelvrick]

With my right, I take longer to aim, tire sooner and tend to shoot to the lower left.

With my left hand... I tend to shoot about 3-4 inches below aim all over the place.