I’ve been in one firefight in my life. It involved me and a friend covering in a ditch trading bullets with some teenager in a thicket with an AK. I burned 90 rounds in about three minutes, mostly with “suppressive“ fire that was over a range of about 50 yards. It was definitely not the coolest or most composed or most glorious moment in the Army’s history. In hindsight, if I had to do it again, I would tell myself to slow down, breathe, look and squeeze. I think everyone involved in that situation panicked, and I don’t think there’s a way around that without extensive experience very few people have. Thing was, though, it ultimately wasn’t the capacity of my rifle that mattered, it was me remembering my training using the sites and crawling back up. I think the biggest lesson for me from that experience, aside from that I don’t like being shot at, was that if I am going to carry and use a firearm, I need to be very calm and very deliberate about how I do that, and I need to train to reinforce those skills.
Part of me wonders if I would have done a “better“ job of it if I hadn’t been so enthusiastic firing out rounds, but that’s a very different and difficult question.
) isn’t. Black plastic guns are a lot more dangerous than steel and wood-Just ask anyone who is ignorant about firearms (Not necessarily someone who is on the loony left, just someone who doesn’t know the difference.). I taught a lady to shoot last year who was wanting to learn to shoot for protection after her husband had died. She was scared of my AR, while ignoring the Mini 14 and the Garand sitting beside it in the rack. She eventually shot the Mini and later the AR. She’d seen the media and the “news” and actually thought AR’s were machine guns. For decades now every action movie shows full auto AR’s and the masses do NOT know the difference. Heck, some of our elected officials from donkey Kong have even referenced “fully semi automatic” rifles, clearly showing the haven’t a clue about reality
