Posted on 01/05/2017 12:12:12 PM PST by w1n1
We've all have read and heard of elite hostage rescue team practice shooting live rounds at targets next to a real live person sitting or standing there. The rationale is to instill confidence in the skills of these elite marksman and a pony show for the distinguished visitors who are observing.
But other than that, would you trust your shooting buddy to stand next to the target while he takes a shot? Would you really stand downrange so he can practice his shot? Well thats exactly what this guy did in the video from Weapons World Facebook.
This shooter did it while the handgun was holstered and used a timer to initiate the drill. Not sure if this is fantastic or necessary to go the extreme to develop more confidence in your marksmanship or to show off. What are your thoughts? See the video here.
Unfortunately, Chris Kyle is not available for comment...
Nothing as ate-up as that, but under certain circumstances I’ve let certain trusted folks shoot past me as I held a camera.
Sad, but True.
The elite police and soldiers who practice like this WILL be in situations that the training prepares them for. The vast majority of the rest of us will not. Not only that, the guys who need to train like this devote their lives to training. The rest of us, no matter how good our intentions, will not and can not be trained to the same level, making exercises like this much more dangerous for us than for the warriors.
I couldn’t access the video, but I read the article. Good way to get shot/shoot someone. Breaking several rules of the range including the most important ones, and I would never go shooting with these people. I need their names so I don’t accidentally go shooting with them sometime.
This is stupidity masquerading as training.
You sure made a lot of (incorrect) assumptions. Just b/c you dont go out looking for trouble doesnt mean it wont come to you. Being well prepared is just common snese.
Where i shoot, the procedure is to get verbal confirmation from every person, and for them to put down their weapons, before anyone takes a step downrange.
That photo astounds me.
Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
No matter hoe careful and skilled, accidents can happen.
Suppose the shooter has a hang-fire. He realizes that the round did not fire; he moves the gun ever so slightly while puzzling and all of a sudden it delay fires.
The idiot standing next to this skilled sharpshooter is going to have a bad day.
Absolutely. There are a million ways to "train" where safety is not compromised. This is Darwin Award material in the making.
Exactly.
LOVE your tagline!
and in bold letters put the name of someone you love on the hostage (mom, sis, wifey, daughter). Then tell yourself you have to show them the target after you "test" yourself.
If these jerks need to do this to show confidence in themselves, let them put 20 pounds of tannerite on both sides of the target. If they miss then at that distance, they blow themselves up, and their buddy can stand safely about 100yds away.
Being prepared is common sense. Pretending that your level of training is near that of a person who devotes his life to being prepared is not common sense.
Not that much!
Stupid, irresponsible, asinine. Anybody remotely associated with firearms ownership and firearms safety shouldn’t have anything to do with this idiotic practice.
Ah bump fire mah .22 while mah buddys downrange all the time.
1. Who holds your beer?
2. Have any buddies left?
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