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mtxinu!sybase.sybase.com!thorick@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Thorick Chow) writes:
#I have a question that maybe someone can answer...

#Why is it that many pistol target shooters put their non-shooting
#hand in their pockets ?

#I have often puzzled over this...  While informal Bullseye is
#a hobby kind of thing for me, I still have an undercurrent of
#'self-defense' in my practice.. so naturally I wouldn't
#be caught dead (so to speak) with one hand in my pocket.

#('tradition' is an acceptable reason BTW  :-)   )

I have a better one:  Because it looks so d*mn cool and relaxed.  :-)

Earnestly, it relaces the muscles in the  non-shooting  arm  and,
thereby, reduces the tension of the whole body.  Keeps the shoot-
ing hand more stable.

With defense guns (distinguished by big caliber and/or high capa-
city)  single-handed  shooting  might  make  less  sense, because
weight or recoil become a problem.

One time I corked off a cylinderful of .357s  in  the  DC  stance
(that's my informal name for it :-) and quickly found out that it
was not the right thing to do...

With my friend's .22 pistol, it's an entirely different matter.

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| Holger Reusch                             |
| Technical University of Vienna, Austria <-+--- No kangaroos here,
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