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What BP class? I was 164th.....
The unavoidable gun fight. Are you confident with your handgun choice?
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What BP class? I was 164th....
That’s the just the phrasing I immediately know. I think “situational” makes more sense because your situation determines how observant you should be.
Those won’t be the people that are looking to kill you. Anybody meaning to do you harm is eyeballing intensely before the attack. They always target focus.
Get the radian ramjet for your 365. It’s excellent on that gun. I was surprised how well it worked after my 1st range trip.
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No. Observant means observant, in any situation, but call it what you like.
Everybody does sooner or later.
I am not emotional about causing death to rogue animals. My neighbors' roosters hump my hens to death, so I don't mind killing them for free dog food.
Now on the other hand, I don't have a clue whether or not I could kill someone in self defense. Not a LEO, military, or "Tactical". Just an old southern boy that wants to be left alone.
I am competent but slow with my carry. .45 should get a thug's attention.
I try very hard to avoid sleazy urban areas. Let all the thugs kill each other i don't care. Don't wanna be a cop or a hero.
Now on the other hand, I don't have a clue whether or not I could kill someone in self defense. Not a LEO, military, or "Tactical". Just an old southern boy that wants to be left alone.
I am competent but slow with my carry. .45 should get a thug's attention.
I try very hard to avoid sleazy urban areas. Let all the thugs kill each other i don't care. Don't wanna be a cop or a hero.
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I thought about it but I already have the HAC which works wonderfully. If it would work with my threaded barrel.
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Ah, the Alabama 500!
Most do so without bravado . . .
I've only ever seen three people die. None of the three were overly dramatic. My mom had the death rattle for an hour before she just quit breathing.
Guy in the ER at Evans Hospital coded and they did CPR and defibrillator for an hour before the Doctor called it. One of the RNs had just lost her husband and she bawled her eyes out.
The last (really the first) was a suicide in Germany. He was sitting at the CQ desk and Keeled over. The CQ called German EMS and they pronounced him on the spot.
Coughing, chest clicking, and choking out on bone splinters from flail chest; twitching and loss of sphincter and bladder control from a gunshot wound to the head; gurgling and trying speak through a cracked cranium; screaming as she can't endure pain from multiple spine fractures and compound femur fractures; screaming until passing out, then dying from burns completely through the skin among others. Each of us should aspire to a quiet passing.
When I was in my Iraq firefight, we shot a young man. He took one 5.56 to the right forearm that sliced through his radius, ulna, humerus and exited his right posterior shoulder. The kill shot, though, was a 5.56 to the spinal column, right around T9-T10. The cord was transected, great vessels severed, and his organs were demolished. Lungs were peppered and holed and when we got to him a minute or so after he was dropped, he was well on the way to death. I remember trying to clear his airway because he was weakly sputtering up blood…and he was trying to speak. It wasn’t fun at all.
Since then, I’ve seen plenty more people die. That gunfight wasn’t my first, but it was the first and only that I had ever caused. It doesn’t haunt me, per se, but I also wish I hadn’t had to do it or live through it and that it wasn’t a necessity.
Since then, I’ve seen plenty more people die. That gunfight wasn’t my first, but it was the first and only that I had ever caused. It doesn’t haunt me, per se, but I also wish I hadn’t had to do it or live through it and that it wasn’t a necessity.
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Train 500rds/week, been the same routine for ages. Got my CCW back in the 80s after joining the Navy, 1 year on a sub some practice, 2 years at Portsmouth Naval and 17yrs with the Marines as an IDT Corpsman. That's where I got into heavy training, on weekends I'd hit the armory, check out my issue WW2 era 1911 and 500rds and hit the range, repeat on Sunday. A good habit I still have to this day but mostly I go over my goal of 500rds a week as that's fot my PC/BUG, rest is shooting for pleasure.
So yes, I'm extremely comfortable with my carry weapon. Mostly because if I screw up, I'm still scared Gunny will scream my head off, later in life I learned his dogged training saved my life several times over. To my greatest JOY, last August, my niece graduated MCRD Parris Island and became U.S. MARINE!!!!
I train to this day religiously as a skill unused degrades. The old Safari Arms frame and Essex slide 1911 I built in 1988/89 has now seen more rounds than most 1911 that were in service since ww2, it's git that same shake rattle and roll as my Marine issued 1911, and she's still serving.
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Train 500rds/week, been the same routine for ages. Got my CCW back in the 80s after joining the Navy, 1 year on a sub some practice, 2 years at Portsmouth Naval and 17yrs with the Marines as an IDT Corpsman. That's where I got into heavy training, on weekends I'd hit the armory, check out my issue WW2 era 1911 and 500rds and hit the range, repeat on Sunday. A good habit I still have to this day but mostly I go over my goal of 500rds a week as that's fot my PC/BUG, rest is shooting for pleasure.
So yes, I'm extremely comfortable with my carry weapon. Mostly because if I screw up, I'm still scared Gunny will scream my head off, later in life I learned his dogged training saved my life several times over. To my greatest JOY, last August, my niece graduated MCRD Parris Island and became U.S. MARINE!!!!
I train to this day religiously as a skill unused degrades. The old Safari Arms frame and Essex slide 1911 I built in 1988/89 has now seen more rounds than most 1911 that were in service since ww2, it's git that same shake rattle and roll as my Marine issued 1911, and she's still serving.
Yall had way cooler policies on extracurricular training than we did! No free ammo for us at the midafternoon of GWOT. Lucky duck…
About those DOA s. I've successfully started three (CPR) and two more who made it as far as the ER, then died. Stopped counting when I zipped up the 125th bodybag. (Long story)
Handgun of choice, S&W 442. 52+ years of various Airweight/Air Lite preferably DAO, makes for confident carry. All my J frames now wear the standard Smith two finger synthetic grips that fit me perfectly.
Handgun of choice, S&W 442. 52+ years of various Airweight/Air Lite preferably DAO, makes for confident carry. All my J frames now wear the standard Smith two finger synthetic grips that fit me perfectly.
While I agree extra ammo may be comforting, it is not a replacement for shot placement. I think that was Cooper’s point. Placing the first round or two on target trumps having 20 rounds on board and missing your target with the first few rounds every single time. And you’re definitely right about magazines. An abused, or junk, magazine will turn a top notch firearm into a single shot..
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