I had a chance today to do what I enjoy more than any other free time pastime, snub training. Today I swapped out one of the many five shot .35 I usually practice with for a classic two-inch m10 revolver. I picked the six shot S&W snub because I wanted to get in some practice with one of the great reproduction of the penultimate 2x2x2 ammo pouches, the Lobo Gun Leather copy of the Bucheimer* pouch. On the range I loaded the 2x2x2 with five brass cased dummy rounds from S. T. Action Pro followed by one live .38 round. Now as it is only an exercise, I keep score of the number of reps by filling the pouch with one live round, then five dummy rounds and then re-filling the pouch each time by moving he lone live round down-the-line by one space. On the firing line, load in standard 2 followed by 2 followed by 2 fashion, close and “fire” six times. After the sixth round (live or otherwise) I empty both the dummy rounds and the spent case into a bucket, and repeat the drill. This time load one dummy, one live round, and four dummy rounds. Repeat this until you finally load your 2x2x2 pouch with fire dummy rounds, then one live round. This exercise gives you thirty six dry fire and anti-flinching drills while firing off only six live rounds. The (so called) muscle memory repetition value alone is with the time. Also, if you try the drill once with nickel plated cases and again with brass, you’ll quickly come to appreciate why we preach use brass anytime you touch the rounds, and use nickel only if you touch the tool holding the rounds. (*Tip of the fedora to John S., for the typo catch.)
