Shooting high powered revolvers accurately

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I have a .45 colt that I have loaded up pretty hot. 300gr Hornady XTPs pushed by 19.5 gr of H110. That should make for something like 1200 fps.

This will be my wilderness ATC gun when I get it all sorted out.

I can bang the 6x8 inch gong at 100m fairly consistantly for the first little while. Then I just get too big of a flinch. Aside from lots more expensive practice sessions? Anyone got any tips?

I was thinking of getting some hogue grips....

Helpfull tips are much appreciated.
 
your 45 colt can take a variety of loads- even the factory stuff is only a 255 grain lead bullet over 7 grains of 231, which gives only 7-800 fps out of a 5 inch barrel- this is a nice pussycat of a load , and probably shoots low, but at least you won't/shouldn't be flinching-and the hogues will DEFINATELY HELP- but mountem so they don't slip- on my blackhawk, they said to use the small pin in the upper hole on the hanger- trouble is the grip will pivot on firing- i used the large pin in the lower hole and it doesn't - exactly opposite to what the instructions say- and mine is not an old model- i wrote them about this and they insisted that they were right- if you use both pins the thing won't ####
 
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some people get flinching when they shoot a heavy revolver a lot especially shooting a lot at one session.you can shoot oftener and fire less shoots at each session. personally I think the best thing to do is get a .22 rimfire and practice with it and only shoot the heavy one occasionally until you get over this flinching.
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Dry fire practice at home. Then at the range use a reduced load. Load only 4 rounds (3 if you only have 5 shot cylinder) in a random pattern. Look way and spin then close the cylinder. You should not know what shots will be live or an empty chamber. Shoot as normal.

If you are starting to flinch you will see it right away when you hit the empty chamber. Correct what ever you were doing wrong. Practice until you have trained your body not to react. Then switch to higher power load but still follow the partial load practice.
 
Thanks! Everyone!

Front sight front sight front sight.

Hogue.

Dryfire.

And switch it up.

Thats kind of what I was imagining everyone would say, but its good to have some help beating it into my head. Helps me focus on the range.

I think this is the first time I ever posted a question and got 100% straight answers from everyone too!
Thanks again!

Andy
 
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