I recently bought a S&W 642 for carry. Two weeks ago I tried it for the first time, and my accuracy was less than impressive. At about 15-20 feet, I was all over the full-sized silhouette. Hopefully enough to take out the bad guy, but still a rather high risk of not being successful in an actual incident.
Today I tried the Crimson Trace laser grips (model LG-405), and I am totally impressed! These things are amazing. Every shot at 30 feet was within a 3 inch wide group, and it wasn't really difficult to accomplish this either. I first did some dry firing at home with it to get better at keeping the dot steady where I wanted it each time I pulled the trigger. I'm totally sold on these. If you have a snub-nose revolver, you want these! I only did 20 rounds with the 642 today; even with the greatly increased accuracy, I still have the problem of my hands starting to hurt pretty quickly from the large recoil of this cute little gun. But I'm OK with that... if I ever have to shoot more than 20 rounds at a bad guy, then I'm probably in big trouble anyway.
Only problem is, the grouping I got with this is actually much better than what I did with my Ruger P89 today, and perhaps a little better than with my new Ruger MKIII that I just tried for the first time today. I would normally expect to be much more accurate with a MKIII than I would with a snub-nose .38, so now I gotta figure out how to get more accurate with the others. (Laser grips for all of them??)
(Oops I spelled the title wrong! Ack! Can't change it.)
Today I tried the Crimson Trace laser grips (model LG-405), and I am totally impressed! These things are amazing. Every shot at 30 feet was within a 3 inch wide group, and it wasn't really difficult to accomplish this either. I first did some dry firing at home with it to get better at keeping the dot steady where I wanted it each time I pulled the trigger. I'm totally sold on these. If you have a snub-nose revolver, you want these! I only did 20 rounds with the 642 today; even with the greatly increased accuracy, I still have the problem of my hands starting to hurt pretty quickly from the large recoil of this cute little gun. But I'm OK with that... if I ever have to shoot more than 20 rounds at a bad guy, then I'm probably in big trouble anyway.
Only problem is, the grouping I got with this is actually much better than what I did with my Ruger P89 today, and perhaps a little better than with my new Ruger MKIII that I just tried for the first time today. I would normally expect to be much more accurate with a MKIII than I would with a snub-nose .38, so now I gotta figure out how to get more accurate with the others. (Laser grips for all of them??)
(Oops I spelled the title wrong! Ack! Can't change it.)
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