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How not to hold your new .460
- Thread starter feddoc
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MasterBates
Well-Known Member
Ouch..
FormerRecruitingGuru
Making Recruiting Great Again
Talk about taking a chunk out of that finger.
Saw a guy do something similar with a .454 because he wrapped his hand up around the cyclinder. Somebody at the range later figured out that the equivilant in pressure and temp out of that 80/1000's of an inch gap was the equivilant of a focused blow torch.
What was funny was to be standing up stairs, hear a loud *Bang* followed closely by a scream, and then see some guy come flying up the stairs and out the door with his hand firmly clutched in his arm pit yelling the whole way. Range master even hollered out, "Hey you left your gun, can I have it?"
What was funny was to be standing up stairs, hear a loud *Bang* followed closely by a scream, and then see some guy come flying up the stairs and out the door with his hand firmly clutched in his arm pit yelling the whole way. Range master even hollered out, "Hey you left your gun, can I have it?"
OOF...and it was so well-manicured, too.
Jake E
New Member
It's a mistake you'll only make once! I'll admit to having a stupid moment and doing this one time with a .454. I was totally focused on a deer (read not paying attention to where my freezing fingers were) and when I pulled the trigger.... Sliced right through my thick winter hunting gloves and thankfully left me with only a burn. Of course missed my deer too 
I agree. However... sometime in the early 90s (pls, someone with more IPSC, IDPA, or USPA experience than I chime in if I'm wrong) it became the vogue to use the "thumbs forward" grip seen in the first picture. This is different that the thumbs under, which is the more familiar and traditional grip used. FWIW, the thumbs under grip took over for the "teacup and saucer" grip that we usually see on old WWI doughboy photos when they're griping the 1911s.
Point is, that it's pretty easy for some complacent, low SA, thumbs forward shooter with years of shooting experience to grip a pistol like this. I'm not sure of the validity of the gases doing this to someone's hand, but then again I've only shot .357 mag and nothing higher.
Wow that's nuts.
My right thumb looked like that on the 4th of July last year. I was cleaning my motorcycle chain, it was up on a rearstand, running to warm up, in neutral - and my friend accidentally kicked it into gear. Needless to say, no more trimming my right thumbnail.
Thankfully I still have the joint and my thumb is completely functional. Recovery went well...fireworks are crazy on Vicodin.
My right thumb looked like that on the 4th of July last year. I was cleaning my motorcycle chain, it was up on a rearstand, running to warm up, in neutral - and my friend accidentally kicked it into gear. Needless to say, no more trimming my right thumbnail.
Thankfully I still have the joint and my thumb is completely functional. Recovery went well...fireworks are crazy on Vicodin.
phrogpilot73
Well-Known Member
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why ORM exists. What a bonehead!
The thumbs forward grip is only gay if you are too stupid to realize that it may not work on all weapons.
It's like you say in your second post...low SA is the problem...