Early 20th Century Shooting Technique
Updated: January 9th, 2013
Backyard Safari has blogged about the pistol shooting technique used by Russian officers in the early 20th century.
It does not look like a steady shooting stance, nor does it look like it would be fast to get back on target.
UPDATE: Apparently this was an April fools joke! Thanks to Aramir for pointing that out.
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I recall seeing Mikael Kalashnikov posing for a picure holding a revolver the same way.
well, ive seen a few paintings of duels from back int eh day and in a few of them the duelist are holding the pistol in the same manner, so using two hands must be a relatively new technique.