Comments on: Revolver Basics http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/ A Resource for Writers Wed, 06 Jan 2016 04:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 By: BJ Bourg http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-25 Sat, 30 May 2015 13:58:43 +0000 http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-25 Thanks for the comment!

bjb

]]> By: hem lata http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-26 Sat, 30 May 2015 11:08:15 +0000 http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-26 this is the rightly explanation of revolver. each and every of part of revolver is deeply explained.

]]> By: Keith Sheppard http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-30 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:52:13 +0000 http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-30 Thanks for that. All useful information for a writer struggling to produce realistic gun scenes in a country where most people (me included) have never even seen a hand-gun, let alone held one.

]]> By: Retired in PA http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-31 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:53:55 +0000 http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-31 Glad I found your Blog this morning (came here from Absolute Write).

My wife, 73, can't pull the trigger to fire double action on any double action revolver we've found. She needs to use two fingers. Her trigger finger simply can't do it. She fires her S&W 686 single action every time. Same with her S&W 17-1 (a beautiful gun). Her carry gun is a SIG P238. It's the only semi-auto we've found that she can rack the slide on without covering the ejection port. I think it has the easiest to wrack slide on the planet. I loaded dummy rounds and she used them to practice the manual of arms with it including clearing double feeds (which I set up for her) before she carried it. It has a huge feature, if the hammer is cocked, it can be loaded, unloaded, and cleared with the safety on. It is also the softest shooting pocket size .380 we've found. If you've never fired one, try it.

A nit in the name of "Getting it right": Double action revolvers with shrouded hammers can not be fired single action.

]]> By: BJ Bourg http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-41 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 23:46:46 +0000 http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-41 Keith, I gave Grace my Ruger GP100 and told her to dry-fire it double-action as many times as she could while holding it in a one-handed shooting position. She was able to fire it 40 times. Her trigger finger started to get fatigued around 30, but she fired it smoothly and easily before that number. She struggled to get the last few shots off, but was able to do so while keeping the revolver pointed forward.

Since her right hand was spent, I told her to fire the heavier Nagant double-action with her left hand, but she couldn't pull the trigger with her index finger. Using her middle finger, she was able to dry-fire it 4 times.

Hope this helps.

bjb

]]> By: BJ Bourg http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-42 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:06:32 +0000 http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-42 I've trained a lot of females who fired revolvers. They were all adults, but they were of different builds and possessed different levels of strength. While some of them had weak grips, they were able to pull the trigger at least 18 times before their hand became too fatigued. At that point, some of them would use two fingers. But…

As luck would have it, I have a 15 year old daughter and some revolvers, so I'll test that specific scenario for you this evening. The double-action trigger pull on my Ruger GP100 is about 12,13 lbs (single-action is about 5) and the double-action trigger pull on my Nagant revolver is about 20 lbs. My son has a Smith and Wesson revolver, which has a trigger pull of about 11 lbs. I'm pretty sure my daughter will be able to pull the trigger on the Ruger and the Smith and Wesson quite easily, but not so sure about the Nagant. In any event, I'll let you know later today. I'll have her fire to failure, so you'll know how many rounds an average 15 year old girl can fire a revolver before her hand quits working.

Take it easy,

bjb

]]> By: Keith Sheppard http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-43 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:20:11 +0000 http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-43 A question. I have a 15 year old female protagonist with a double action revolver. How physically hard would it be for her to pull back the trigger? When I was a kid, I had a starting pistol that I had to use two hands to fire because my right index finger wasn't strong enough to pull back the trigger. Maybe it was just that particular pistol but I'd like to know whether my teenage protag would find it at all difficult to pull the trigger.

]]> By: thedevilcorp http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-44 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 06:09:32 +0000 http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-44 Good site! Well done.

]]> By: Lida Bushloper http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-48 Sun, 21 Sep 2014 06:44:34 +0000 http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-48 What a great resource. You are so generous to provide it for the rest of us.
Lida

]]> By: Peter DiChellis http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-49 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 01:31:28 +0000 http://rightingcrimefiction.com/revolver-basics/#comment-49 Outstanding! Thank you!

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