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Haven't been able to shoot for almost 2 weeks because of thumb surgery but today I got back out there with my Browning Hi Power & my 4" model 28 S&W. I was shooting 124 gr cast powder coated TC bullets in the Hi Power, my standard load, & as always iron sights.
In the 357 model 28 I was shooting 128 gr cast powder coated +P 38 specials. My timer only picked up 5 shots so the time had to be slower that what is shown on the clock. I was shooting single action, cocking with my left thumb. The trigger is serrated & is a little rough to shoot double action. The holster is a Mike Barranti, Hank Sloan model.





Dick

Dick, good job with that M28!

Did that kid use a dot sight? What pistol?

Dicken reportedly used a Glock 9mm of some sort. I've not seen/heard anything that comments at all regarding his sights/optic.

Also not reported is whether he shot off-hand (like we are all doing) or if he used a table/chair/pillar as a support.

G19 MOS w/HoroSun SCS. 11.21, five alpha, five charlie:

Black Scorpion?

Layoffs are a b!tch!!! But, bad guys don’t work around my training schedule. Seeing all the great targets, I am embarrassed to post these, but here goes. I do carry smaller guns a lot. I do shoot them at longer distances, but I haven’t done that on the clock, and the wheels fell off when I tried.

Both guns were shot from the same Bladetech Stache IWB at 3:30 concealed under an untucked Polo shirt. I had to do a POA and POI check with both because the first is new and the one with the optic had the battery tray screw and battery tray walk out when I started to do this drill a couple of days earlier.

With the first gun I had one miss and one hit that barely touched the D zone line on the left side (seen a few inches above the bore). It was more of a shotgun pattern. Time was 12.40 with one shot after 12 seconds.



The gun is a Sig P365 .380. 19 ounces loaded with 10. I got it a couple of months ago and only put a couple hundred rounds through it so far. I can do much better with not a lot of effort. (My first shot was sundial slow.) This thing is an absolute hoot to shoot! I haven't shot it enough to carry, but I am getting tempted.

Next up was the P365 9mm with a Holosun 407K X2. 23.8 ounces loaded with 10. I’ve had this one a while. It was challenging. 14.61 with 2 A, 4 C, 3 D, 1 miss. Shot 8 was at 12.16, shot 9 at 13.28. Slow first shot. This is embarrassing because I have shot this gun a lot.





Although I can up the accuracy, this one is going to be harder to do under 12 seconds because of the recoil difference from the .380. With some more practice, I am pretty sure that I can do it with the .380. That’s going on the to-do list for after hunting season.

Live and learn. Thanks, Bluedreaux!

I couldn't do that with a dialed-in Ransom rest from those guns!

That's three minutes I can't get back. What a douche. Can we use him for the 40 yard target?

Yessir.

Have a few items from them and very pleased.

To quote the late Pat Rogers, “Learning has occurred,” which I think was the purpose of the drill. I went out yesterday to shoot my bow and brought along the Sig P365 .380. I hadn’t shot since my last post and I started cold with the gun IWB at 3:30 under an untucked Polo shirt. (Sorry, I’m running out of targets and shot the one form last week.) I still haven’t accomplished a clean run within the time parameters. The first run was 9.41 with 4A, 3C, 1D, and 2 misses. I slowed down some and run 2 was a 10.86 with 2A, 2C, 4D and 2 misses. I actually did worse than run 1. I did run 3 slower still at 12.17, with the last shot just after 12 seconds, with 3A, 5C and 2D hits and no misses. Closer, anyway.





The bad part is that I love shooting this little gun and trying this drill with it, which is distracting me from the 9mm. Now, before you all start saying that a .380 round will bounce off someone at 40 yards, consider this. I bought a pine 2”X4” stud and 2 pieces of 22 steel sheet metal. Before the Dicken Drill appeared on the scene, I had taped the 2 pieces of sheet metal to the 2X4 and shot the arrangement from 10 yards with both a 90 grain Lehigh Xtreme Penetrator and a 100 grain Buffalo Bore hard cast out of the Sig, and they both blew through the board and 2 pieces of sheet metal and disappeared into the unknown. I have to do some more Bubba testing and chronograph work, but I think either of those rounds will leave more than a mark at 40 yards.

Stay Safe.