barber said:
When shooting a RSBH Hunter ,44 mag, should it be held tightly with a firm grip or with a not so firm grip to roll in the hand with the recoil
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barber.... let us start with how
not to hold your
Super Blackhawk. Do not choke the grip. To exert more pressure than your muscles are conditioned for invites tremor. Muscle tremor kills squeeze. Even if one were able to independently float his or her trigger finger, tremor widens one's CONE of DISPERSION.
It is difficult to exaggerate the advantage of learning handgun fundamentals on a pistol or revolver chambered in .22 Long Rifle. If a .22 is not available, DRY FIRE the .44 until the cows come home. Dry fire won't hurt the Ruger. Dry fire conditions the muscles which hold and squeeze. From dry fire and/or .22 progress to .44 Special or light .44 Mag loads. Practice from two positions, sandbag and offhand (standing). To shoot from a rest helps to refine squeeze & follow through. There is no shortcut to follow through; to follow through, one must squeeze.
One fundamental difference separates shooting from a rest and offhand. In offhand the gun never stops moving. Trigger squeeze and follow through are exactly the same.
For the Super Blackhawk with factory stocks, I use a HEEL INDEX grip. The bottom edge of my palm contacts the grip to index palm against the edge of the butt. There is an air gap between middle finger and trigger guard. To hold the .44 Mag single action high accelerates roll on recoil, which invites VERTICAL DISPERSION, while slamming trigger guard into middle finger. Pachmayr and similar grips which fill in behind trigger guard spare the middle finger.
A deerskin or other soft glove helps absorb recoil. A death grip does not stop magnum recoil. Rounds which develop more recoil than the .44 Magnum require stronger grip pressure----very strong for the big boomers. In handgun marksmanship, just as in hand loading, it is better to work up than down. For marksmanship with the .44, a toned, relaxed grip delivers.
David Bradshaw