by Michael de Bethencourt | Oct 10, 2025 | Blog, Mike Boyle, Range Drills, Shooting Drills
Triple Ripple – A Test for Snub Revolver Shooters* Introduction: How fast can you run a snub revolver and still make combat effective hits on multiple threats? Is your reload smooth and efficient? While this is by no means the ultimate test of skill, it should...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Multiple individuals have been incarcerated as a result of using or threatening to use a handgun when accosted by a person with actual or potential bad intentions when other options might have been available. Armed defenders should know their state’s laws regarding...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Oct 7, 2025 | de Bethencourt
Since our inception Snub Noir has had two goals. Our long term goal is to archive the history of the snub revolver as used by the folks from the 1920’s to the 1970’s at the height of the guns common usage. I have always viewed the snub as part of...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Oct 1, 2025 | Blog, Lou Chiodo, Range Drills, Shooting Drills, Training
Tactile Tip Of The Week. Hi everyone. This is a short posting but something that I have discussed in the past but I often see the terms misunderstood in posting at times. The two terms are in relation to analysis of the bullet strikes on target when either single...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 26, 2025 | Ammunition, Blog
The .327 federal magnum is a very interesting cartridge, Taurus no longer makes them, but Charter Arms, Ruger and S&W still do, S&W only on performance center guns. My Taurus, I’ve found to be minute of bad guy at 10 yards (after working the trigger a bit)....
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 23, 2025 | Blog, Mike Boyle, Range Drills, Shooting Drills
Introduction: Is a snub revolver just a “one bad guy”? Or can it be effectively utilized against more than one threat or threats in the distance? In this scenario, the shooter will initially deal with two problems in close proximity. Ultimately, a third problem (only...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 18, 2025 | Blog
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...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 15, 2025 | Blog, Mike Boyle, Range Drills, Shooting Drills
Fast Pace Shooting with a Snub or Pocket Pistol Introduction: Given enough time, most of us can shoot our preferred carry piece with a fair degree of precision. But can we do it at speed? Unlike the practice range, a real life encounter would require you to put...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Seductive Lies, a GatZette Code… One of the foundation stories of Noir, “The Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad, was first published in 1899 in serial form and then in book form in 1902. About 80 years later, the story came to disturbing modern life in 1979 as a...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 15, 2025 | Blog, de Bethencourt
Gun writer and former Secret Service special agent Walter Rauch is credited with publicizing the importance of religiously checking the firing condition of your self-defense gun any time it has been out of your hands. I thought that this suggestion was so valuable...
