On 5/20/14, 4:06 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 20 May 2014 14:06:05 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 5/20/14, 1:58 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 20 May 2014 12:02:11 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 5/20/14, 11:52 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 20 May 2014 10:41:13 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

First-class zombie killer. And if you run out of ammo, grab it by the
barrel & bang 'em over the head.

Naah
For zombies, you need a 454 Casul



Too slow a cycle when you factor in muzzle flip and recoil. By the time
you take your second shot, you've been zombied...

Practice my man, practice.

You seem very hung up on this muzzle flip thing.
Once you build your muscle memory, you are back down on the target in
fractions of a second. That is the big difference between guys who
like slow fire at 25-50 yards and guys who do rapid fire strings at 7
or less.
Lately the only thing I have been doing is "extend and fire" a double
tap from the retention position with the gun starting in D/A.
That gets me used to both trigger pulls and creates the muscle memory
for an instinctive shot in bad light. It also reinforces taking your
finger from "safe" (along the slide) to being on the trigger ... and
back.
Most target shooters I see pick up the gun with their finger in the
guard! I assume they do the same thing when they hear a bump in the
night.
I have to admit, I did it too before guys like Ayoob started teaching
the finger along the frame thing.

Now it is the standard practice.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/elian-gonzalez.jpg

The only thing that is not scary in this picture


I was taught finger along the frame by the CCW instructor over in
Virgina. Never developed the habit of keeping a finger in the guard. Too
dangerous, especially with the CZ competition pistol I had.

I have a friend with a .454 casul and a short barrel. Muzzle flip and
slow cycling are issues. He says decent ammo for it is about a buck and
a half to two bucks a round. No thanks.


You really need to reload if you are shooting something like that.
I never really had an interest in one but I have shot them.
The one I shot had a fairly long barrel in a heavy hunting handgun,
scoped so the recoil wasn't as bad as a saturday night special Charter
.44 mag.
I bet that gun was 50 oz or more. It was a big chunk of metal to hold,
offhand. The guy who owned it said you really want a rest when you are
shooting it. At that point it is basically a carbine. A shoulder stock
might be the way to go.





I've read a few articles and watched a couple of videos on reloading. It
looks too tedious to interest me and several reloaders I know up here
have told me that the supplies sometimes cannot be easily found, even
via mail order.

I am saving my brass, though. More than one local reloader has expressed
interest in swapping brass for reloads on some yet to be determined
basis, although that makes me nervous because of the varying skills of
these guys.

I've tried three brands of speed loaders...HKS, Safariland, and Five
Star. I like the Safariland and Five Star...the HKS not so much.