Congrats to your niece. And thank you for all you did for the Corps, Doc. Semper Fi. Oorah!
The unavoidable gun fight. Are you confident with your handgun choice?
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Nobody carries for a gun battle except for the military and the police. However if you find yourself in a situation where the flight option has gone by and you find yourself in a fight situation, you better be ready because at this time it's too late to call the guys equipped to fight. The first question is, why are you where you shouldn't be in the first place?
What does heavy use mean to you? Number of shots fired once a week, month or year? Or the actual load?
In my case I shoot a 442 pretty regularly but with Fiocchi 148gr. wadcutters. It's my understanding they make the lightest load of the major manufacturers. My very rarely shot hot hardcast wadcutters are for carry. In the past my "range gun" was a #36 which will hold up forever using light wads. I've since moved to a 3" Kimber K6s as my range gun which gets the most bullets down the tube. Rated for .357 Mag. I don't think I'll ever wear this one out using .38's. I plan on replacing the 442 with a 340 PD as my carry. That will carried a lot and shot very little. I expect to continue to use a hot .38 wadcutter in the 340.
My goal has always been an accurate first shot and quick follow up shots. 357's in a 11.7 Oz. gun is not happening, not with me and arthritic wrists and thumbs. If I get old enough, I'm 75 now, and arthritic enough, I'd move to my 351C. I'm not worried about carrying a .22 Magnum. All these J frames with the two finger grip fit my hand perfectly. If the intense muzzle blast doesn't scare a felon, 7 hollow points center mass should work. Come September it will be 53 years of J frame joy. Familiarity breeds confidence.
You mean like Buffalo Wild Wings when somebody decides to rob it? Silly question . . .
Or Luby's Cafeteria.
Lightning does strike; your odds of being struck in struck any year in the US is between 10 and 50 per 330 million. Make your choices on preparation.
1991. May as well talk about avoiding Hawaii because of the Pearl Harbor attack . . .
Well, maybe a Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Strip in Vegas? Halloween in Orlando?
My high school crush and neighbor was there, lost a coworker
I'm sorry to hear that. A colleague in Mogadishu was there with his wife but they escaped with minor crowd-induced injuries. She just died of cancer, by the way.
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I can see that I set off a bunch of silly, or maybe not so silly replies. Of course, all of you knew I was referring to situational awareness and staying away from areas that are known to be trouble spots. Every city has those areas and it's just better to find somewhere else to go rather than take your chances in a known bad area.
However, these days with all the wackos running around, there might not actually be a safe places anymore. Lots of people being gunned down in their own homes, shopping malls, schools, churches, places of business and places where alcohol is being served. One of the worst places to go is somewhere that is posted or there are laws prohibiting the carry of firearms. You can rest assured that the wackos will flock to these paces since the chances of anyone shooting back are almost nil.
Neither of which a CCW holder could have done anything about . . .
…or a Sutherland Springs or Aurora or Parkland or Uvalde, where a CCW would have completely mattered
There were good guys with guns at all of those shootings, with the possible exception of Aurora, although we don't really know that for sure . . .
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Post #20, way, way back has the best summation in response to the original post. Regrettable these threads continue for this length.
My sincere condolences
Since we are still kicking this around, I thought I would run this by you guys. Many years ago there was a series of pizza parlor robberies in and around Berkeley, CA. The bad guy was called the .25 caliber killer. What he would do was pull out a .25 auto, march everybody in the place into the walk-in, direct them to lay down face down in the walk-in, and then shoot them in the back of the head. This happened several times. Had ANY of the victims fought back (even without a gun) they would have stood a fair chance of surviving one or more hits from a .25 auto if they got prompt medical attention. A .25 in the base of the skull kills quickly and reliably. You need to ask yourself if your life is in danger and, if the answer is yes, what are you going to do about it. Drawing against the drop might be the answer. (The bad guy MIGHT be armed with a good quality fake gun. It happens all the time.) Even if you stop some lead the bad guy will probably flee and you will probably get some prompt medical attention. Probably. Life is a risk-benefit assessment. You have already made part of that decision if you have your own gat with you. The next step should be your call, not the bad guy's.
I just dropped a few pounds so my new Ruger RXM would fit in my Fricke AIWB holster. Now my EDC. Looking to get a RMR for it as well.
To be fair, they are losing value as a target, so becoming safer until they close.
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How do you like the RXM? How is the accuracy out to 25 yards?
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