There's a new article at Guns, Holsters, and Gear about training with a .22LR revolver.
Certainly, training with your defensive arm is the preferred method of training. But if finances, range rules, or personal preference keep you from training with your centerfire revolver, it might be an option to consider. There's plenty of options out there, with rimfire revolvers that can fill in for their centerfire brethren available for a wide variety of firearms. Even with moderate use, the money spent on a trainer will save significant money on ammunition alone, and might just mean getting to the range more often.
Go, take a read and see what you think.
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While training with your primary defensive weapon would be preferred, one could also say you should train your more expensive self defense ammo at the range to get used to the recoil. I personally believe that a rim-fire small caliber pistol or revolver is great to train with as it still requires the main things in shooting that all of us need to work on and hone: "The fundamentals of marksmanship." and muscle memory.
Hey Joy, I posted on sub caliber training a while ago. I go beyond .22 and use airsoft as well. Even less expensive than .22. If you can get a .22 conversion for your carry gun it is an even bigger bonus as you have the same MOA as your carry piece.
http://gungeekrants.blogspot.com/2010/12/sub-caliber-practice.html
Training with your primary carry gun is good, but I believe training with a .22 is also essential. It's terrific for practicing the basic skills common to all guns, and the lesser noise and recoil makes it easier to see any flaws or bad habits you may have developed or reverted to since the last range visit. I find those problems often get covered up by the louder report and greater recoil of useful defensive calibers - especially minor flinching or recoil anticipation.
Once you've worked out those issues and refreshed your muscle memory on the basics, then it's time to get out the serious gun and apply that refresher. Then go back to the .22 to reinforce the good basic habits as the last part of your training.
That's what works for me, anyway. As always, YMMV.
And if you start the children off with .22 revolvers, they too can join in and take head shots on Zeds during a Level 4 Outbreak. "...Teach your Children well, their Father's Hell will slowly go bye.."
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