...I went shooting with a relatively inexperienced adult woman this summer ...she really wanted to learn to use her late father's Smith & Wesson model 10 .
Although she had shot revolvers like that a dozen times over the last 20 years it wasn't a regular enough. She had a lot of trouble keeping the gun steady while pulling that long heavy double action trigger.
She also had trouble rapidly lining up the sights --although we were shooting at a dark gray target in a dimly lit indoor shooting range, with a gun that had all black blued steel sights.
With my 9 mm, given the trigger pull of half the poundage, and a much shorter trigger stroke, and wider sights, and sights with white dots on them, her groups were 1/3 the size during rapid fire.
We're talking a difference of 18 inch groups down to 6 inches groups just due to switching guns .
Although she had shot revolvers like that a dozen times over the last 20 years it wasn't a regular enough. She had a lot of trouble keeping the gun steady while pulling that long heavy double action trigger.
She also had trouble rapidly lining up the sights --although we were shooting at a dark gray target in a dimly lit indoor shooting range, with a gun that had all black blued steel sights.
With my 9 mm, given the trigger pull of half the poundage, and a much shorter trigger stroke, and wider sights, and sights with white dots on them, her groups were 1/3 the size during rapid fire.
We're talking a difference of 18 inch groups down to 6 inches groups just due to switching guns .