Posted on 10/14/2012 9:35:04 AM PDT by A Navy Vet
Thinking about all the new gun owners out there, I thought this might be a good time to discuss gun/ammo facts, safety issues, training, and legalities within Fedgov and various State laws.
This thread should also include various other self-defense items, such as: pepper spray, tazers/stun guns, batons (including extendable), other material items, and various forms of Martial Arts (including Krav Maga).
>>But if I was buying an alltime carry gun today, I’d probably have a look at one of the really small 38 snubs.<<
Add a Crimson Trace Laser Sight and you’ll be set. Practice shooting in dark places so you will understand just how the muzzle flash affects your night shooting.
Night sights are great for the first shot at night, then they disappear. The muzzle flash destroys your night vision.
If you have someone stand off to the side and you shoot five different manufacturers rounds, they’ll be able to tell you which one was the whitest and which was the orangest. The orangest is what I recommend for night shooting. The brighter, ie whiter, the flash, the longer it takes for your night vision to recover.
Having custody of a loaded weapon does not arm you. The skill to use the weapon is what arms a man. Train for the fight in the conditions where the fight will take place. Shooting at circles on white paper teaches you marksmanship - how to hit circles on white paper. Shooting at shiny tin cans teaches you to look for shiny tin cans.
Too many people think their attacker is going to remain standing, squared off so you can easily put three rounds into his chest and a couple more into his head as he falls to the floor. Look at someone who is walking by you and try to imagine if you can hit that slender target.
Go out in the field and have a friend wear dark clothing, ask him to hide himself behind a thick bush and peak at you so you understand what it means to look for the side of a mans face. Can you put a round into the three by two triangle. Okay now visualize him aiming a handgun at you. Now the target expands to four by five. Can you hit that?
Shoot and move. Never remain in one place unless you want to make it easy for someone to see and or shoot you. If they are searching to locate you that means they will not be shooting at you during that time.
Training instill confidence which breeds self reliance. Practice, practice and practice some more.
Good luck
>>But if I was buying an alltime carry gun today, I’d probably have a look at one of the really small 38 snubs.<<
Add a Crimson Trace Laser Sight and you’ll be set. Practice shooting in dark places so you will understand just how the muzzle flash affects your night shooting.
Night sights are great for the first shot at night, then they disappear. The muzzle flash destroys your night vision.
If you have someone stand off to the side and you shoot five different manufacturers rounds, they’ll be able to tell you which one was the whitest and which was the orangest. The orangest is what I recommend for night shooting. The brighter, ie whiter, the flash, the longer it takes for your night vision to recover.
Having custody of a loaded weapon does not arm you. The skill to use the weapon is what arms a man. Train for the fight in the conditions where the fight will take place. Shooting at circles on white paper teaches you marksmanship - how to hit circles on white paper. Shooting at shiny tin cans teaches you to look for shiny tin cans.
Too many people think their attacker is going to remain standing, squared off so you can easily put three rounds into his chest and a couple more into his head as he falls to the floor. Look at someone who is walking by you and try to imagine if you can hit that slender target.
Go out in the field and have a friend wear dark clothing, ask him to hide himself behind a thick bush and peak at you so you understand what it means to look for the side of a mans face. Can you put a round into the three by two triangle. Okay now visualize him aiming a handgun at you. Now the target expands to four by five. Can you hit that?
Shoot and move. Never remain in one place unless you want to make it easy for someone to see and or shoot you. If they are searching to locate you that means they will not be shooting at you during that time.
Training instill confidence which breeds self reliance. Practice, practice and practice some more.
Good luck
That and the smoke grenades are exactly why a "carrier" in the theater in Colorado may not have been able to take that shithead down. We lose highly-trained combat infantry simply because no one can foresee every circumstance. The fog of war.
Still, at least there is a chance if some good citizen is carrying.
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