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    Gun Digest's The Perfect Revolver Fit Concealed Carry eShort: Not all revolvers are alike. Make sure your pistol fits.
    Gun Digest's The Perfect Revolver Fit Concealed Carry eShort: Not all revolvers are alike. Make sure your pistol fits.
    Gun Digest's The Perfect Revolver Fit Concealed Carry eShort: Not all revolvers are alike. Make sure your pistol fits.
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    Gun Digest's The Perfect Revolver Fit Concealed Carry eShort: Not all revolvers are alike. Make sure your pistol fits.

    By Grant Cunningham

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    In this excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Grant Cunningham shows why revolver fit is so important and how to find the perfect fitting pistol for CCW.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGun Digest Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440233913
    Gun Digest's The Perfect Revolver Fit Concealed Carry eShort: Not all revolvers are alike. Make sure your pistol fits.
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    Grant Cunningham

    Grant Cunningham is a renowned self-defense author, teacher, and internationally known gunsmith (retired). He's the author of The Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Shooter's Guide to Handguns, Defensive Pistol Fundamentals, and Handgun Training: Practice Drills for Defensive Shooting, and has written articles on shooting, self-defense, training and teaching for many magazines, shooting websites and his blog at grantcunningham.com.

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      Gun Digest's The Perfect Revolver Fit Concealed Carry eShort - Grant Cunningham

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      Concealed Carry: The Perfect Revolver Fit

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      Recoil of lightweight guns, such as this S&W Model 442 Airweight Centennial, can be punishing for the inexperienced shooter and painful even for experienced hands.

      It’s really pretty simple: your gun must fit your hand if you want to be efficient in shooting. The circumference of the grip, the distance from the back to the trigger, and even the shape of the grip’s cross section make huge contributions to comfort and performance.

      We’re lucky to be talking about revolvers in this day and age as opposed to just a few decades ago. Back in the ‘70s, and even well into the ‘80s, very few revolvers came with grips that actually fit a shooter’s hands. Custom grip manufacturers existed, but there was no internet to help shooters find them. If the revolver owner didn’t read a gun magazine, or sometimes the ‘right’ gun magazine, he or she would never learn that they didn’t have to suffer with poor revolver fit!

      Today we have a wide range of aftermarket grips available, and many more that can be had on a custom basis through the many gripmakers found on the internet. Technology has improved, giving us materials that simply weren’t available some forty years ago. We also understand more about the role of improved ergonomics in shooter performance.

      Many of these changes came about because of the wave of ‘shall issue’ concealed carry that swept across America during the 1980s. The market for concealed carry guns, training, and accessories exploded, bringing new ideas and increased competition into what was a pretty hidebound industry. Were it not for that, we might not have seen the need for proper gun and hand fit achieve the recognition that it has.

      If finger grooves don’t fit shooter’s hand, grasp strength and control can be compromised.

      The trigger finger rules all

      When fitting a gun to a shooter I always start with the trigger/finger interface. I’ll talk more about trigger finger placement in a later chapter, but ideally the first joint of the finger should be placed on the trigger. This is the ideal point of leverage and muscle control, and fits the majority of shooters with the widest range of gun sizes.

      The process starts by having the student place that finger joint on the trigger. Once that’s properly placed we work backwards to the proper grip. Once the trigger finger is in the right place it’s easy to see if the the rest of the hand fits the gun (or vice-versa, depending on how you look at things).

      With the finger placed properly on the trigger and the rest of the fingers curled around the grip, I check to see if the barrel lines up with the bones of the forearm. If the gun is too big for the person’s hand, the barrel will be pointing away from the centerline of the body. If the gun is too small, it will be pointing toward the centerline.

      I’ve found that it’s easier for most people to shoot a too-small gun than to operate a too-large gun. To get enough leverage to operate the trigger, a person with small hands (such as mine) must rotate the hand toward the muzzle, bringing the finger further into the trigger for proper leverage. This puts the backstrap of the revolver, which is the center of the recoil impulse, not into the palm but on the outside edge of the base of the thumb. The first bone of thumb itself, which now sits on the top of the backstrap instead of alongside it, takes the punishment of the muzzle flip. I can tell you from experience that this is a painful situation in which to be!

      Someone with hands that are a bit big for the gun usually suffers nothing more than interference problems. The large trigger finger often contacts the thumb as it strokes the trigger backward, throwing the gun slightly off target and necessitating careful attention to the sights. Some of

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