I passed!!!

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Last month, the UFA did a big promo grand-re-opening event at the Red Deer location. I guess now that they own Wholesale Sports, they're doing a test-market thing with a new farm-outdoors lifestyle store.

Anyhoo, the Hunter's Ed folks were up from Calgary doing free challenge tests (I still gave them a donation) and after only handling handguns a few times since last August, I went to do my RPAL test I got 88% on the written and 90% on the practical! Woo-hoo!

Because I had mostly used semi-autos and an AR-15, I needed a little help figuring out the difference between single and double action revolvers (I'd shot one once this year at our indoor range, a guy's brand new Taurus in .38SP, and I wanted a revolver immediately after that).

So, a couple months ago, when ianwd said he was going to get me a Ruger for my birthday, I said that was cool, but that it would be nice to buy a house with our money, so last month we moved into our first owned house. Unfortunately, he cancelled the order, so I said, screw that, I'm going to get my RPAL and _I'll_ get the damn revolver in MY name!

Ha!
 
So now I'm going to shop around a bit. he was going to get the Blackhawk convertible, which would add a new caliber to our family, but maybe I'll look at .44 Mag, .357 or .38SP.
 
single or double action revolver

I needed a little help figuring out the difference between single and double action revolvers



So its like this. A single action revolver needs the handler to manually pull the hammer back into the full cocked possition to be able to pull the trigger, this needs to be done for every shot. The trigger pull is lighter as all you are doing is firing an already cocked gun

A double action is one that can operate as a single, or double meening that the hammer can be cocked with your thumb and shot or the hammer can be cocked with the pull of the trigger. When shot in double action the trigger pull is far harder because you are doing two things at once, cocking the hammer in the first part of the pull and at the end releasing the firing pin.

One trigger pull one action.... Single action...
One trigger pull two actions... Double action...
 
i went to the redhawk after having a blackhawk- but i've been shooting many years- great first revolver, centre fire- either the gp100 or the smith whatever equivilent - they beauty of the 357 is that you can fire 38 specials in it, and they're cheap/low reciol- the 44/45 is more for after you've been around a bit, and MAY introduce you to flinching, although a smart kicking 357 can too- 44/45s are also FAR morE EXPENSIVE to shoot- i went back to the redhawk b/c of the slow loading of the blackhawk, and i had the thing for a year or more and didn't use the spare cylinder at all
 
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