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How much do you trust your Shooting Buddy?
Am Shooting Journal ^ | 1/5/2017 | J Hines

Posted on 01/05/2017 12:12:12 PM PST by w1n1

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1 posted on 01/05/2017 12:12:12 PM PST by w1n1
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To: w1n1

Unfortunately, Chris Kyle is not available for comment...


2 posted on 01/05/2017 12:15:02 PM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: w1n1; Eaker

Nothing as ate-up as that, but under certain circumstances I’ve let certain trusted folks shoot past me as I held a camera.


3 posted on 01/05/2017 12:15:18 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Sad, but True.


4 posted on 01/05/2017 12:16:06 PM PST by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: w1n1

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.


5 posted on 01/05/2017 12:16:22 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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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.


6 posted on 01/05/2017 12:19:10 PM PST by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified... 1 Corinthians 1:23)
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To: w1n1

This is stupidity masquerading as training.


7 posted on 01/05/2017 12:20:19 PM PST by G Larry (America now has the opportunity to return to God.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

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.


8 posted on 01/05/2017 12:20:24 PM PST by 556x45
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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.


9 posted on 01/05/2017 12:20:46 PM PST by PGR88
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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.


10 posted on 01/05/2017 12:27:36 PM PST by BuffaloJack
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This is stupidity masquerading as training.

Absolutely. There are a million ways to "train" where safety is not compromised. This is Darwin Award material in the making.

11 posted on 01/05/2017 12:28:16 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: G Larry

Exactly.


12 posted on 01/05/2017 12:28:46 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Magnum44

LOVE your tagline!


13 posted on 01/05/2017 12:32:11 PM PST by G Larry (America now has the opportunity to return to God.)
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To: w1n1
Seriously, if you want to make your training more realistic without compromising safety, personalize it. Take a target like this:

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.

14 posted on 01/05/2017 12:36:46 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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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.


15 posted on 01/05/2017 12:38:03 PM PST by Clarancebeaks
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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.


16 posted on 01/05/2017 12:41:16 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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How much do you trust your Shooting Buddy?

Not that much!

17 posted on 01/05/2017 12:44:37 PM PST by MAexile (Bats left, votes rights)
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To: w1n1

Stupid, irresponsible, asinine. Anybody remotely associated with firearms ownership and firearms safety shouldn’t have anything to do with this idiotic practice.


18 posted on 01/05/2017 12:44:53 PM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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Ah bump fire mah .22 while mah buddys downrange all the time.


19 posted on 01/05/2017 12:50:51 PM PST by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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"Ah bump fire mah .22 while mah buddys downrange all the time."

1. Who holds your beer?

2. Have any buddies left?

20 posted on 01/05/2017 12:53:12 PM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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