Gun Nuts

Gear: Blade-Tech speed holster
Gun: Ruger Security Six with vintage Mustang stocks, and factory Ruger bobbed hammer.

One of the great advantages of modern training in the firearms industry is that there is a considerable volume of information available for shooters. If you’re trying to set metrics for your improvement, there are top tier shooters and trainers that post par times for drills and skill tests.

But what if you’re a revolver shooter? I know, the obvious answer is to ditch that archaic gun in favor of a design that slightly less than 200 years old. However, there are shooters out there interested in power-leveling their revo skills, and it’s not easy to find information on good par times for some revolver specific skills. In the interest of helping, and creating good information I’m going to be sharing a lot of revolver training notes here on Gun Nuts through this year of the wheel. That way, in 3 years when someone else gets it in their head to go shoot revolvers a bunch, they’ll at least have somewhere to start.

We’ll look at a few standard drills over the course of the year:

• D2 @ 10 yards (draw fire two shots from concealment at 10 yards)
• 1r2 @ 5 yards (fire one sh