Thread: 1970s police issue AOS rifle

Originally Posted by Ingrid 51

I was AOS in early seventies. The sidearms were S&W .38. The sidearm was most accurate when you threw it at something. .

There was nothing inaccurate about the S&W .38's, just very poor training and operator error. The revolvers were perfectly capable of 3-4" groups at 50 metres under ideal circumstances. I have a target I shot, 3 shots standing, double action at 10 metres, into one hole. The AOS members had brought it to me (it was one of a batch of S&W revolvers I had sold to the Police) complaining that it couldn't hit a figure target at 10 metres. I started training some AOS guys in my indoor range at work in advanced pistol techniques and was starting to get some good results when the word came down from PNHQ that I was to cease and desist immediately as my training clashed with official doctrine. Ain't bureaucracy a wonderful thing!!