What makes for the biggest "wait a minute" moment?

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Looking down the barrel and loaded chambers of a magnum revolver or a semi-auto pistol? I vote for looking down the barrel & loaded chambers of my S&W 460 xvr loaded with Black Talons aka Winchester Dual Bonded ammunition. I think that is an unbeatable "pardon me sir. May I go now?" moment in time.:eek:
 
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Looking at the business end of a .44 Special loaded with Gold Dots.
The gaping, cavernous hollowpoints with the contrast of the jacket versus the silvery sheen of the lead core.
Maybe that's more of an "Oh, sh**!" moment.
 
When I pulled my colt python 357/6" barrel on a druggie who told me I was lucky my car had an alarm system and he couldn't make any money on me. I pulled out the python which no one knew I carried and told him I'd shove it up your you know what and pull the trigger on you or anyone who was ripping me off. This was 1976 and he just pushed my buttons but his eyes got big like silver dollars. He was my neighbor and for over a year every time I came out of the house and he was outside he went in his house. He respected me after that or was he scared. When your looking at the business end of a 357mag or any gun for that matter when you can see the hollow points in the cylinder you know the guy behind it means business. I'm a teddy bear most of the time but push my buttons/threaten me I'm a cornered pit bull.
 
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Quite frankly just looking down the barrel at close range of any gun will pretty much be a "wait a minute moment" for most and usually the bigger the hole you are looking at the more the pucker factor will ratchet up.
 
I have mowed this over myself, since you can see well the bullets in a revolver and the semi-auto is a mystery. I think a revolver would be more menacing because of that! But if I were being robbed, I would rather the buy have a revolver, since it has a longer trigger pull. I feel I could wrestle him closer and get the one up on him. But those are just day dreams.
 
...you can see well the bullets in a revolver and the semi-auto is a mystery.

Back about 1976 I rolled up on a suspicious person call at a car wash. This was about 0200 hrs. There was a guy working on the coin box with a heavy duty screw driver in one bay. When I asked him what he thought he was doing he turned on me with the screw driver held down low, pointed at me like a knife and took a step toward me. Very shortly there after...when my Colt Government Model's thumb safety clicked off and the front sight stopped on his chest he said, and I quote, "That ain't no 9mm!" and dropped the screw driver.

Point is, it doesn't have to be a revolver to get their attention. (smile)

Seriously, my experience has been that how you handle the gun and the command you have of the situation has more impact than what kind of gun you are using. YMMV!

Dave
 
Being On The Business End Is What Really Matters, Not The Gun

Having been on the wrong side of an AK-47 with an angry military guard at a PRC naval air station, I can say with certainty that just being there and knowing that life was now a matter of millimeters was life altering. The business end of gun barrel is a scary place to be, particularly with someone at the other end prepared to use it. The caliber, make, model, etc. are not what comes to mind.

It's a long story . . . but while in Shanghai 15 years ago my driver made a wrong turn and within seconds there we were.

Humbly yours,

R
 
I looked down the barrel of a shotgun once the wrong end. It was a bad sureal feeling. Went like this. A couple, friends of mine brought along a girl for me to meet. I was bbq`ing for us. Rusty, my dog was tuneing up in his pen. My friends and the girl bugged me to let him loose. I did and soon it sounded like a slaughter house. This was on a weekday afternoon and there was a bunch of kids going home from school on the street. Rusty had a cat up a tree and was howling. I had a neighbor ray, who was sort of a friend but liked his firewater. He was out there drunk with a shotgun taking a bead on rusty! I yelled, "Ray, put up that gun and he pointed it right at my gut! I noticed bill had walked up to one side and slightly behind him and had his snub pointed right at his head! I dont think ray ever seen that but did lower the barrel and walked of swearing to his house. It took awhile to catch up rusty and pen him. I still was mad and walked over to rays house with bill behind me. It was a hot day and ray had the door open and yelled come on in buddy! I yelled back, get yer butt out here ray, and gave him the riot act. Told him dont you even walk in front of my house again ray! You want to go to the bar you walk across the street! He did too for like a year. Finaly I started to feel like a bully over it, found him at the nearest bar and apologized and bought him a drink. He got even though. He introduced me to my ex wife to be!
 
Got a call one night that there had been a shooting at the bus depot.

I arrived and there were two bodies lying on the ground by the door to a Greyhound bus. Being dumber than a box of rocks, I stuck my head in the door of the bus and into the muzzle of a .38 snub nose. It was so close I swear I could see the bullets in the cylinder and barrel even though it was 3AM.

Just then a Marine that had been asleep in the back of the bus and awakened by the gunfire like to tore the head off the guy aiming a gun at me.

I can still see that snubby lookin' at me. That thar was one of those moments.

Kinda been partial to Marines ever since.
 
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I don't like looking at a pointed finger. I would like it even less if I was looking at the business end of a firearm. Revolver ... semi-auto ... shotgun ... rifle ... same difference.
 
Iggy, was the guy that stuck the gun in your face the same one that shot the guys?
 
I've never had the displeasure of looking down the business end of a firearm pointed in anger but a loaded big bore revolver would get my vote for pucker factor.

a self portrait with the camera on a timer and done for artistic reasons...no cameras were hurt in the making of this image.

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No matter what the caliber, when looking at a gun from the business end, the hole ALWAYS looks bigger than it really is. :eek:
 
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