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So\u2026I just finished teaching a class with a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver as my teaching gun\u2026and out of 21 students, only one was using a revolver instead of a semiautomatic pistol. He was 78 years old.\u00a0 This told me something.<\/p>\n
That said, though, he finished with a score of 220 out of 250 possible with his snub-nose Ruger SP101, and there was at least one instructor on the line with the same kind of gun to show him how to work it, since the \u201cleast modern gun\u201d on the hips of my staff instructor cadre was a 1911 .45 auto, and all the rest had Glocks, S&W M&P autos, or the Springfield XD. Today, I start an advanced class, and have seen the writing on the wall: I\u2019ve switched to a polymer Glock 26 9mm autoloader as my teaching gun for this week.<\/p>\n
About ten days ago I was in Phoenix, competing in the South Mountain Showdown, and using the S&W in Stock Service Revolver class. Significant Other and I found ourselves shooting one stage with some other revolver fans. \u201cCool,\u201d I said, \u201cwe\u2019re in a nest of revolver shooters.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOr maybe a gaggle of revolver shooters,\u201d she suggested helpfully.<\/p>\n
\u201cA cylinder-full of revolver shooters?\u201d I ventured hopefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cOr a speedloader of revolver shooters,\u201d she said supportively.<\/p>\n
Now, I know the proper term.<\/p>\n
We were obviously a \u201cmuseum\u201d of revolver shooters.<\/p>\n
Help me out here\u2026I\u2019m not the LAST dinosaur, am I?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hunting season, for Heaven\u2019s sake. How many of you are going to be hunting birds with a good old classic double barrel shotgun, and how many are going after the Thanksgiving turkeys with a shotgun made of Fiberglas and synthetic stocks with Sorbothane recoil pads?\u00a0 How many will be stalking the winter venison with good ol\u2019 bolt action or lever action rifles made out of blue steel and walnut, and how many will be using something that\u2019s plastique fantastique and tactique-al?<\/p>\n
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