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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Heck 1/4 of the people I see at ranges I don’t want to stand BESIDE. And a few... I just up and leave. Downrange? Hell no!
No, thank you. There is a nonzero chance that I will someday be in a situation where that training would be useful, but the odds of the training going badly are MUCH higher than the odds of needing that training. Not only would I not do it, I would not knowingly shoot with anyone but a specialized professional who would do it.
I wouldn’t even want to be in the same zip code as these jokers.
If I was a trial lawyer, I would name every person at the range, their parents and the kids they went to school with after my client was carelessly slaughtered while the toothless imbeciles cheered them on (the later is fiction to make the jurors cry and award more money)
I would trust a shooting buddy to follow him anywhere.
My wife and I have already agreed on a code word for the currently-restrained spouse to drop down before the other fires. Because, neither of us will ever give up our weapon to the a$$hole holding the other hostage.
I do not trust any other person with a gun. Too many idiots point it in the wrong direction even when unloaded. When that occurs I typically leave the area, or make my observations known when it can be politely resolved. The only person I trust with a loaded gun, is me!
This is bat hsit f$$$$$g crazy and you know it. Anyone who would encourage the impressionable among us to engage in insane conduct like this at the shooting range ought to be whipped.