Single actions bust my knuckle

[Dale53]

I solved the recoil problem on both double and single actions with simply using Pachmayr grips on all. I flat don’t care how they look. The object is to hit what I’m aiming at without pain. Pachmayr does it for me!

Dale53

[Tripplebeards]

I use to wrap my fingers like Doug but now just wear gloves when shooting my 329NG 44 mag. It’s guaranteed to rip the skin right off your knuckles on the first shot. I call it the blood gun. I put a couple hundred rounds through it this past summer and the gloves saved my knuckles. After a good 100 rounds of feels like I just got off the ocean with motion sickness. That little titanium P shooter really rocks me.

[blueeyephil]

I use to wrap my fingers like Doug but now just wear gloves when shooting my 329NG 44 mag. It’s guaranteed to rip the skin right off your knuckles on the first shot. I call it the blood gun. I put a couple hundred rounds through it this past summer and the gloves saved my knuckles. After a good 100 rounds of feels like I just got off the ocean with motion sickness. That little titanium P shooter really rocks me.

Sounds like you are a glutton for punishment.

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[MT Gianni]

A good shooting glove is great to have. Mine are 25 year old PAST's but cover my fingers and pad the palm.

[BamaNapper]

I can't say it better than post #27, the video post from LAH. Thanks for the video.

I started shooting 44mag about 45 years ago when I bought a new model SBH with a 7.5" barrel. It beat me up for a couple years until someone showed me how to hang onto it. As LAH shows, the SBH has small grips and the trick is to curl the pinkie finger of your shooting hand below the grip. Yes, that means you've only got 2 fingers wrapped around the wood, but that's enough. With this grip the pistol can't rotate up in your hand so it plants against your palm and your grip stays tight. If your grip and wrist are firm the recoil is taken up mostly by your elbow, lifting and rolling the pistol up and left. I've even had youth shooting the magnum loads with this grip and never a sore knuckle.

Now the same load in a Contender is a different story. The grip is too large to get my pinkie under it. It rotates in my hand, loosening my grip, then the tang on the trigger guard comes back and bites me. I had a Dan Wesson 44mag with a large frame and grips that I tried everything to control with no success. I tried rubber grips, gloves, and a number of different holds. I still have the Contender for hunting but the DW is long gone.

[FergusonTO35]

I have thick fingers and even mild cartridgess can hurt if the trigger guard is pressed right into my finger. I bucked the current trend of jamming as much of the grip into your hand and now allow the pistol or revolver to sit rather high in the hand. This not only creates clearance for the middle finger but also helps press the trigger straight back. My groups instantly improved when I started doing this.

[engineer401]

I have thick fingers and even mild cartridgess can hurt if the trigger guard is pressed right into my finger. I bucked the current trend of jamming as much of the grip into your hand and now allow the pistol or revolver to sit rather high in the hand. This not only creates clearance for the middle finger but also helps press the trigger straight back. My groups instantly improved when I started doing this.

I do the same thing. I never thought it though. I just wanted to hold on at the fattest part of the grip.

[barnabus]

another reason not to buy a Ruger. Sell it off and buy a Smith or Colt

[Ozark mike]

I dont think i could ever put colt or smith above ruger that sounds crazy

[tazman]

I dont think i could ever put colt or smith above ruger that sounds crazy

I don't have any problem doing that. My experiences with Ruger(several) have not been good.
My experiences with S&W have all been positive except one.

[Drm50]

I got my Ruger SBH when I was a kid because it beat owners knuckles. A guy my Dad worked with won SBH and only fired it a few times. My dad was always fascinated with SBH but had no use for a 44mg. Dad bought it for $50, a tidy sum in 1962. It bit Dad too. I inherited it with over half original box of ammo. That’s why I got a 44mg before I got a 22. I have small hands and it never bothered me. It is the only handgun I own that fires nothing but heavy magnum loads. It’s my deer gun. It bites most people but I can’t help it if they got fat fingers.

[Thumbcocker]

No fair body shaming fingers.

[John in WYO]

And this guy handles Heavy-recoiling Single Actions well, too.


https://youtu.be/5DZdfdAuxCA

[engineer401]

I don't have any problem doing that. My experiences with Ruger(several) have not been good.
My experiences with S&W have all been positive except one.

I too have better luck with the S and W double action revolvers. I've not had great experiences with the Ruger double actions had terrific ones with the Blackhawks and Single Sixes.

[tazman]

I have worked with 3 different Blackhawks, 2 GP100s, a couple of Mark IIs, and two single sixes, all with less than stellar to pitiful performance. I also had a couple of model 77 rifles that were mediocre shooters.
I currently own a Security six and a Service Six that shoot very well. These are the only two Ruger handguns that work really well for me.
I know Ruger makes guns that work and shoot well. I have heard many people talk about how well they work for them. I just can't seem to get them to work for me.

I had one S&W N frame that had to go back and have the forcing cone recut because it was shaving lead new from the factory. That was around 1975.
Other than that one, all my S&W revolvers have been very good to superb.

[megasupermagnum]

And this guy handles Heavy-recoiling Single Actions well, too.


https://youtu.be/5DZdfdAuxCA

Pointing the barrel straight behind you is handling the recoil well? So much for muzzle control.

[alamogunr]

I have a pair of Past shooting gloves. Have had for several years. I didn't use them much for awhile because recoil didn't bother me that much except for the Blackhawk w/square back trigger guard. Now I use them for shooting midrange loads of the .45 Colt and .475 L.

Because they are no longer available, I read all the posts about things that work for others. Recently, I got an email from Duluth Trading about sale items. I don't buy their stuff except when it is seriously marked down. Anyway, I found some gloves they called "framer gloves". I haven't had a chance to try them out but they seem like they might work. Thought I would pass it on.

https://www.duluthtrading.com/mens-d...ves-70266.html

[lar45]

Pointing the barrel straight behind you is handling the recoil well? So much for muzzle control.

That was a 500 Linebaugh with one hand.
Looks like he did just fine.

[megasupermagnum]

That was a 500 Linebaugh with one hand.
Looks like he did just fine.

Better than me for sure, but I sure wouldn't want to see something like that on a shooting range. Get two hands on it.

[DougGuy]

Better than me for sure, but I sure wouldn't want to see something like that on a shooting range. Get two hands on it.

Huh? It's a SINGLE action not a semi auto.