Gun Digest's Concealed Carry - Snub Nose Revolver
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In this excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Grant Cunningham teaches you how to control recoil in small snubnose revolvers for better accuracy. Also covered are grips and sights for snubnose pistols.
Grant Cunningham
Grant Cunningham is a renowned self-defense author, teacher, and internationally known gunsmith (retired). He's the author of The Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Shooter's Guide to Handguns, Defensive Pistol Fundamentals, and Handgun Training: Practice Drills for Defensive Shooting, and has written articles on shooting, self-defense, training and teaching for many magazines, shooting websites and his blog at grantcunningham.com.
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Gun Digest's Concealed Carry - Snub Nose Revolver - Grant Cunningham
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Concealed Carry: Snub Nose Revolver
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Snubnose is most popular carry revolver, but requires dedication and practice to shoot efficiently.
The snubnose revolver, often affectionately called a snubby, or simply snub, is usually defined as having a barrel of two inches or less on a small frame. There are those who would argue that definition, insisting that a three-inch barrel is still within the application envelope, and some hold that a large-framed gun with a short barrel is also a snubby. I’m going to stay out of the fray by invoking the famous dictum that I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it!
The snubby has also been referred to by the term bellygun, a word that derisively refers to the difficulty of shooting one effectively beyond ‘belly to belly’ distance. For generations the short-barreled revolver was believed to be useless beyond a few feet, a belief which is still strong in certain circles.
Snubbies can be a challenge to shoot well. This control group was shot double-action with a four-inch Ruger GP100.
In comparison, this group – using same ammo, same target, same distance, same rate of fire – was shot