{"id":2801,"date":"2014-07-09T10:43:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T14:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2014-07-09T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T14:43:37","slug":"how-to-shoot-great-with-a-snub-nose-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/how-to-shoot-great-with-a-snub-nose-38\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO SHOOT GREAT WITH A SNUB-NOSE .38"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michael<\/a>The \u201csnub-nose .38\u201d revolver, dating back to the Colt Detective Special of 1926, is a standard prop in noir <\/em>movies. Most see it as an urban gun, something to hide under the suit in the dangerous streets of the big cities.\u00a0 However, country folk like \u2018em too.\u00a0 Where I live nowadays, I often spot one in the jeans pocket of a workin\u2019 man, or even the front chest pouch of a farmer\u2019s overalls (where it\u2019s pretty handy to get to, actually).<\/p>\n

A general rule of little guns is that \u201cthey\u2019re easy to carry, but hard to shoot.\u201d\u00a0 A Google or Amazon search should get you to some useful advice, such as the book \u201cThe Snubby Revolver\u201d by my old friend Ed Lovette, who has \u201cbeen there and done that.\u201d Now we can add a small but meaty booklet by an old friend, Michael deBethencourt.<\/p>\n

A lifelong martial artist, Michael is best known for his expertise with two weapons: the knife, with which he has developed his own simple, primal, and highly effective series of techniques, and the short-barrel revolver.\u00a0 The reading matter in question is titled \u201cThirty Eight Straight Tips for Better Snub Shooting.\u201d\u00a0 The short-barrel Smith & Wesson .38 depicted on the cover sits under a fedora from the snub-nose .38\u2019s heyday, appropriately enough.<\/p>\n

While Michael and I differ on some things, as all instructors do \u2013 speed reload techniques for the revolver, in this case \u2013 brother deBethencourt gives you advice you can take to the bank. I\u2019ve been in this game for a long time, and I learned some new stuff from \u201cThirty Eight Tips.\u201d For instance, I hadn\u2019t realized the JetLoader people (Buffer Technologies at www.buffertech.com<\/a>) were making their super-fast loader for the J-frame Smith & Wesson.\u00a0 I immediately ordered three, and they\u2019ve become my new favorite speedloader for these little five-shot .38s and .357 Magnums.<\/p>\n

You can order Michael\u2019s monograph at http:\/\/snubtraining.com\/thirty-eight-straight-tips-for-better-snub-shooting\/<\/a>, and you can get info on his excellent training at snubtraining.com.\u00a0 In addition to knowing his stuff and imparting it superbly, Michael is a funny guy who uses his humor positively as \u201center-train-ment,\u201d and genuinely cares about his students.\u00a0 He embodies something I learned from one of my mentors, the supercop Col. Robert Lindsey, and have shared with instructors I\u2019ve trained ever since.\u00a0 \u201cWe are not God\u2019s gift to our students\u2026our students are God\u2019s gift to us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201csnub-nose .38\u201d revolver, dating back to the Colt Detective Special of 1926, is a standard prop in noir movies. Most see it as an urban gun, something to hide under the suit in the dangerous streets of the big cities.\u00a0 However, country folk like \u2018em too.\u00a0 Where I live nowadays, I often spot one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearms","8":"category-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}