That’s for malt liquors and revolvers alike, but only when it’s Colt .45
I hate when they hold handguns sideways in movies!
- Thread starter Jdeere562
- Start date
Cagney & Lacey
TV really dumbs down its viewers.
Federal law enforcement agencies have practiced that way for several years. Not for emphasis in the field, just a different training technique.
4WD
$50 site donor 2025
IIRC - this group called out some side winder punks
Still being Uncle Responsible?This works fine
It was a holiday!
Close range, rapid fire, support hand (my left) only shooting - I cant the pistol about 30 degrees clockwise. Helps manage the recoil when shooting rapidly.
Target shooting, left hand only, I’m straight up and down for good sight alignment. All strong (right) hand only, and all two handed shooting, I’m straight up and down.
But in that one circumstance - the bit of cant (not horizontal - just a bit) improves my results.
Target shooting, left hand only, I’m straight up and down for good sight alignment. All strong (right) hand only, and all two handed shooting, I’m straight up and down.
But in that one circumstance - the bit of cant (not horizontal - just a bit) improves my results.
Not a big fan of the sideways shooters but it really doesn't bother me.
Ah, the good ole "gansta cant".
Us firearm instructors used to cringe at this. Until we started studying the mechanics of it. Seems precision target shooting requires a good sight picture/alignment and that means the weapon should be vertical as the manufacturers intended. We teach and train that way for police shooters so that at the moment of truth, thats how we use it. We also teach reactionary shooting (one handed) and that involves getting the weapon on target quickly using natural point of aim. Seems that when the arm is extended, and you make a fist, it is more "natural" for the hand to be horizontal (with regard to fingers) than vertical. Try it. So when we would let our hands "react" naturally while shooting quickly, most times it migrated to somewhere between horizontal (gansta) and about 45• canted. If getting off a shot quickly, it was pretty danged accurate. Could be why so many bad guys end up shooting the good guys. I would see so many trying to take too much time to get good sight alignment/sight picture when shooting up close and quickly.
Us firearm instructors used to cringe at this. Until we started studying the mechanics of it. Seems precision target shooting requires a good sight picture/alignment and that means the weapon should be vertical as the manufacturers intended. We teach and train that way for police shooters so that at the moment of truth, thats how we use it. We also teach reactionary shooting (one handed) and that involves getting the weapon on target quickly using natural point of aim. Seems that when the arm is extended, and you make a fist, it is more "natural" for the hand to be horizontal (with regard to fingers) than vertical. Try it. So when we would let our hands "react" naturally while shooting quickly, most times it migrated to somewhere between horizontal (gansta) and about 45• canted. If getting off a shot quickly, it was pretty danged accurate. Could be why so many bad guys end up shooting the good guys. I would see so many trying to take too much time to get good sight alignment/sight picture when shooting up close and quickly.
Last edited:
I am the epitome of a fun grouchy old man. Self deprecating humor keeps one humble.
Guns all over the house, but not in the shower. Need to save the space next to the body wash for the "shower beer". Nothing better than a cold shower and a cold beer after a hot day mowing the lawn.Who doesn't bathe with a shower gun?I mean, you just never know what might happen.
View attachment 238347
Someone had a Chinese 1911 that jammed a lot at the range one day. I suggested he try firing it sideways gangsta style. Problem solved!
Canting? Go 'all the way' with the 180 degree inversion -pistol inverted, trigger pulled by the pinky- used by J.Bourne in the GREAT stairwell shootout / escape scene.
Shooting one handed while often result in a slight cant which is perfectly fine and actually a more natural position. Proper sight picture has nothing to do with the rotational angle of the pistol. You could hold it upside down and still hit targets as long as the sight picture (target, front sight, rear sight) is aligned.
EX:
EX:
It would be very interesting to compare targets at the range with one of those people that hold their gun like that.
Similar threads
