The Savannah Arsenal Project

Practice. (Well, duh, I hear you say.) The fact of the matter is that most people don’t practice much with their carry guns.  When we go to the range or matches, we engage our egos and shoot the big full-sized guns with their long barrels and superb triggers, but then, when we leave the range, the gun on our hip is some little compact revolver or auto.  As Walt Rausch is fond of saying, “We talk .45s, shoot 9mms, and carry .38s.”  The big gun gets 300 rounds and the carry gun gets 10.  This is really backwards.  Shouldn’t the gun you bet your life on get the lions share of the practice?  When was the last time that you actually did an IDPA match with a J-frame revolver?  If you haven’t, you should.  Its enlightening.  Can you empty your snubnose into a pie plate at seven yards in five seconds?  If you cant, you need to go back to the range and pop caps until you can. (And that’s five seconds drawing from realistic concealment) Can you do that while moving to cover?  Can you hit anything with a snub gun weak hand only?  I think you get my drift.  Treat the carry gun realistically, because its the one that’s most likely to pull your bacon out of the fire.