Answer to Gary's "Inquiring Minds Want To Know"

Jim Taylor
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Sunday, June 21, 2020, 07:18 (2250 days ago)

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I am sure Gary knows ... and I am sure the old gunhands here know also...

Shooting weak hand, gun upside down, pulling the trigger with your little finger ...

You use a 12 o'clock hold instead of a 6 o'clock hold.
The gun recoils down.
You DO NOT use heavy loads. I used .38 Specials with 3 gr. Bullseye and 158 gr. cast bullet .. or my .22 Single Six.

When I was pastoring I had moved from Cave Creek, AZ to Oracle, AZ and taken a new church. One of the members invited my wife and I to their home for supper. While it was preparing the husband asked me if I ever shot guns. I said that I had a few times.

So we go out in his back yard and he sets up some beer bottles about 40 or 50 feet away and says, "Do you think you can hit those?"

I said, "I can try." And I pulled out my gun, held it upside down in my left hand just like in the photo and broke 5 in a row.

The husband put his gun away and we went back in the house and had a quiet meal.

WAY WAY BACK IN THE '50s

JT
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Sunday, June 21, 2020, 07:30 (2250 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

THE COVER OF "GUNS" HAD THE SHOOTING PRIEST OF TEXAS. HE WAS SHOOTING THIS WAY.

I had an Armadillo under the house once...

WB
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Sunday, June 21, 2020, 11:49 (2250 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

Thing was scratching around and pulled some of the flex venting down! Boy was I mad. I had a flashlight in one hand and a .45 in the other. I held the gun sideways "Gangster style" as I spied him in an opening between the Central Package unit and the skirting of the house. Well I shot the house! About 3" up the wood skirting. I can't remember if it was a S&W 625-2 or a Ruger P90 but I remember that 1/2" hole in the side of the house. I did finally get him. He weighed well over 20 lbs.

Had to crawl 30 ft. under my house and back out working on my back to fix that vent. I'm still a bit huffy about the whole incident, some 25 yrs. ago.

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