This was the result of some complaints about the overuse of some non traditional words. It was posted here several years ago
So after gettin my tactical pants on and yankin old Gert outta the safe, I decided to
take her out for a walk at the range and run her thru her paces on the combat set.
Had 4 clips full of boolits, ready to lay down some fire. Now the bang swithch on
Gert is slicker than snot on a doorknob, man I'm talkin buttery smooth, so after
slammin home one a them clips I shoved one in the pipe and prepared to have at
em. Now Gert's my fav toy, so she ain't minty no more, but her furniture is in
pretty good shape so I can hang on to her right well. So I stuck my booger hook on
the bang lever and went to town. This particular platform has flawless reliability, so
once we starting bangin she was shootin like a laser beam. Lead was flyin like she
was an automatic assault rifle. After a short while, I ran out of 380 defense ammo,
so I pulled the snubbie of of my wasteband and cracked off a few more rounds
before I went home to dinner
Wow, that is impressive. Even when I was the chief range officer for my department, I did not talk like that. Didn't know how. We did have a few though who were into all things 'tatical". I think all cop shops do.
Being rangemaster has benefits though. Everybody is there to shoot. The better one shoots the higher the classification pin that goes on the uniform shirt. I never witnessed any correlation between tactical vocabulary and DM class marksmanship. So without the walk, the talk didn't get it.
Many years later, long after I had go on from rangemaster, we switched from the S&W 686 4" to the standard sized (don't recall the model number) .40 cal Glock.
I had had plenty of semi-auto time because I was then carrying a second gen S&W compact 9mm (the equivalent to the third gen 6906). This was a seized pistol that the court had awarded to the department. It fit me perfectly and I never shot it below 100%. During the Glock transition training, the then rangemasters were trying to condition us to not fully release the trigger so the pistol would reset more quickly. Between decades of DA revolver experience, including almost 20 years of PPC competition, my habit was to fully release the trigger. I saw no reason to attempt to change this. I was extremely skeptical of anyone being to exercise fine muscle control in an actual shooting situation. The rangemasters were insistent on this technique claiming it to be (here comes the magic word) tactically superior.
Now during this conversion training the semi-auto skills I had developed with the compact Smith carried right over to the Glock. I finally ran out of patience with what I considered to be pointless nagging. I proposed a match. They had all seen the targets I had been shooting with the Glock. The match was to be the best rangemaster, or rangemasters if multiple so desired, to go out with me and we would all run the course. High score would prevail. If that was me, no more insistence on short stroking the trigger. If any of them won, I would endeavor to learn the technique.
I would like to say they took me up, and I won. But that did not happen. No one accepted the challenge. Thus ended any further claims of tactical superiority.
One last comment on tactical. It appears that much of this preference is based on aesthetics.
But in terms of aesthetics nothing can match a nickel or stainless SAA with stag grips. To my Saturday matinee idols, these were tactical.
when referring to a firearm someone has been wanting to obtain for some time, or hopes to find and buy one day. 15-20 years ago was cool, but by now, it has lost its impact. Most people now yawn and move on to the next post.
And excellent!!!
