Originally Posted by
geargnasher
That's the thing that has ALWAYS bugged me about these things, almost no one asks how it is possible, only disputes what is claimed because it doesn't fit their paradigm.
Interesting perhaps only to me, but a few years ago I noticed some fellows making some pretty outrageous claims of accuracy and velocity with a certain milsurp, using cast bullets. I decided to find out for myself what I could learn from them and do, so I started asking questions, lots of them. I also got in a lot of fights trying to get the naysayers to shut up long enough for me to learn something, or at least give some scientific reasoning why it couldn't be done. In the end, I learned a lot about people on internet forums and I learned the truth about the outrageous claims. Now if I say what I did I get called a liar and hated, too.
When I first joined, my very first post was a question about leading. Jim was one of the first to respond. He got my attention right off and kept it, and he's helped me directly and indirectly do things with revolvers that I never would have dreamed possible, though not nearly as great as dedicated sixgunners with truly excellent nerves can do. He opened my eyes, and that in itself is priceless, and he has always been willing to help me learn every way he can when I asked. That isn't misplaced "hero worship" on my part, just humble appreciation. Thank you, Jim, and to people like you who I've never seen shoot, but have taught me to think past the middle of the "bell curve" that has been mentioned on this thread and made me a better handloader and shooter for it. I don't care if you really could shoot a hole in a nickel every time at 100 yards or not, you have encouraged me to try, and with what I've learned I've come close enough to that myself to believe you......with bone-stock revolvers, no less.
In the spirit of the thread title, I submit that reality of revolver accuracy is what you as a shooter and handloader are able to make of it, nothing more, nothing less, but that it can be a lot better with many production guns than most of you are willing to even imagine.
Gear