Secrets of the Concealed Carry Snub – Chapter [ ]  – (The Value of the Snub)
Dear Friends: The material that follows I wrote over thirty years ago. I never felt if was ready to print and subsequently, excluding a few proto-galley proof tests samples, I never printed it. I still do not believe the material is ready, but I suspect a few fragments might be of some interest to one or two of my fellow snub shooting enthusiasts. If this includes, I hope you will follow me as I share this material and follow up with any possible thoughts, suggestions, or corrections. I cannot guarantee that I will get a chance to respond, but I’d welcome your thoughts. Thank you. Michael de Bethencourt, June 202
Goals
I have six goals for collecting and presenting this material. I hope to:
- Introduce and record a few of the lesser known snub manipula-tion skills and
- Demonstrate some unconventional right and left hand snub manual-of-arms techniques. It is worth noting that because the snub revolver is an asymmetric weapon it requires different han-dling skills for the right and left handed
- Offer the snub owner some tips that might aid him in evaluating and enhancing his current shooting
- Help expose unconscious Range Effect conditioning. Range Ef-fect is a term coined by nationally known police trainer Ralph It describes those subtle training scars that a shooter can develop on the range that unconsciously conditions him to fail when engaged in an actual gunfight.
- Introduce several unconventional second-snub and back-up gun (BUG) manipulations and shooting exercises
- Introduce single-hand/injured-hand snub manipulation skills. Most competent semi-automatic pistol shooters can load, un-load and re-load their pistols one-handed only with either the right or the left hand. These are important injured shooter skills for any handgunner. Snub shooters should be able to accomplish the same task with their weapon of choice as well.
