{"id":5069,"date":"2018-08-23T21:42:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T01:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2018-08-23T21:42:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T01:42:47","slug":"going-retro-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/going-retro-again\/","title":{"rendered":"GOING RETRO AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, the title above does not come from the Department of Redundancy Department.\u00a0 It comes from the fact that every now and then, the old guy here goes back into the past with old technology.\u00a0 Each time I do that, I\u2019m reminded that old doesn\u2019t necessarily mean obsolete.<\/p>\n

Last year about this time,\u00a0 I spent four weeks using double action revolvers for teaching classes, even though I knew most of my students would be using semiautomatic pistols.\u00a0 Reason was explained here.<\/a><\/p>\n

It worked out reasonably well. The two points I dropped on one Pace-Setter (demonstration of a qualification shoot) was on me and not the six-shooter, as noted here.<\/a><\/p>\n

August 2017 finished my retro month successfully, as noted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2017 I had done my \u201cretro month\u201d with a pair of K-frame (medium frame) 4\u201d barrel Smith & Wesson Model 19 .357 Combat Magnums, both blue steel.\u00a0 This year being even hotter and more humid, I stayed with K-frame S&Ws but went stainless.\u00a0 One gun was the Model 64, a fixed sight .38 Special with 4\u201d barrel; the other was a Model 66 .357 Magnum in an uncommon and uncatalogued format, 3\u201d barrel with round butt.<\/p>\n

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I used the Model 64 for the Connecticut class, hosted by my old friend and master instructor Frank Cornwall at Defense Associates<\/a>, because as I had done the year before I chose to shoot the demo left-handed even though I\u2019m not a natural southpaw. Reasons for that were explained a year ago here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I chose the 64 because I figured that shooting \u201cweak hand\u201d I\u2019d need all the help I could get, including an extra inch of barrel and sight radius.\u00a0 Alas, I did not consider my own lack of self-discipline, and pulled a shot high in the chest just outside the center ring, killing what should have been a perfect score.<\/p>\n

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The subsequent New Hampshire class went better, shooting right-handed with the 3\u201d gun.\u00a0 Russ Lary and I shot the pace-setter side by side with short barrel S&W 66s, Russ using a 2.5\u201d barrel version he had used in the past to win high Off-Duty Gun shooter at one major match.\u00a0 We both shot 300s with near identical group sizes.\u00a0 You don\u2019t necessarily need long barrels to win if you\u2019ve put in your trigger time.<\/p>\n

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I reported to Russ as my Chief of Police for 19 years of my 43 in LE, and he was always a helluva shot.<\/p>\n

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I intend to finish the month of August with wheel-guns. I have another S&W K-frame 3\u201d barrel .357 coming in, a Performance Center variation I\u2019ll be testing for On Target <\/em>magazine.\u00a0 Yes, they only hold six rounds\u2026but there\u2019s still something comforting about a .357 Magnum ready to hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, the title above does not come from the Department of Redundancy Department.\u00a0 It comes from the fact that every now and then, the old guy here goes back into the past with old technology.\u00a0 Each time I do that, I\u2019m reminded that old doesn\u2019t necessarily mean obsolete. Last year about this time,\u00a0 I spent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}