Poker Card Shootout, May 2026

I forget what number we're on, but it doesn't matter.


This time I dispensed with the usual Ruger Single-Six, which is a .22 revolver with no recoil, and shot a few ".45 Long-Boys" like I would usually be carrying in practice. Turned out all right. 

6 comments:

E Hines said...

Still tending to shoot left.

On the other hand, as long as your groups remain that tight, your accuracy is more than adequate.

Eric Hines

Grim said...

Probably I’m gripping too tight; but perfection is unattainable. Consistency is what I hope to get out of these exercises.

raven said...

5 rounds or 6?
Good shooting in any case. Average the group and it might be 1/4" low and 1/4" left. At what range do you play cards?

Grim said...

It was six; the large group is three of them.

At what range do you play cards?

It varies. This was about fifteen feet. Sometimes I go out to thirty. Any further than that and I'm not very likely to be shooting a handgun (which, as Eric Blair used to say, is only for fighting your way back to the rifle you should never have set down in the first place).

Thomas Doubting said...

Nice. I don't have a .45, but I enjoy shooting them.

raven said...

Well, most of us find toting a rifle about on our dally chores to be both inconvenient and a magnet for unwanted encounters with the blue of hair and leo's both.