Posted on 01/04/2015 11:24:35 AM PST by Kartographer
The round hit the ground right in front of him, but it seemed as though he started to pedal harder. I noticed now that he had something on his back wrapped in a blanket. When he did not stop after the warning shot was fired, that same Staff Sergeant began unloading the entire magazine of standard 9mm ball ammunition carried by NATO forces. I remember thinking, Wow, this guy cant hit shit because it appeared that the man on the bike wasnt getting hit. I expected him to be thrown from the bike with the first shot.
After the first few shots were fired, the man changed directions and went around a large dirt mound to his right and out of view from the Marines at the checkpoint. I watched as the Staff Sergeant changed mags in his pistol and rounded up two other marines armed with rifles to go and check on the man. Fifteen minutes later, the Marines brought the guy who had been riding the bike on a stretcher to the FOB where I was on post. I immediately searched the man, as was SOP, and noticed his torso covered in blood. I counted at least nine bullet wounds and radioed the corpsman to come to the gate. When the corpsman arrived, the man was pronounced dead; I was later told it was from blood loss. The point here is that a man on a bike was shot at least nine times at close range by 9mm ball and still managed to pedal a bike 75 meters. Where is the stopping power in that? It is incidents like this that have prompted the Corps to adopt the 1911 Colt as their primary side arm, going back to a gun it used 70 years ago.
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I stopped reading when he/she/it started talking about the American tobacco companies intentionally poisoning cigarettes.
Trash.
LOL, thanks for the post.
I am stunned that they had to scrape and barter for food and mere essentials. I am shocked and disgusted that our troops are treated this way.
Even though he doesn't read his own website anymore, just cashes the checks...)
That and glass bullets as well.
Have to be humane don’t ya know. . . .
In my case, Spring of 1977: 4 rounds fired, at about 20 meters, going for headshots, and I got two for certain-I saw bits of scalp fly. The other guy got off two rounds from a sawed-off Universal M1 carbine, one of which passed between my left arm and my chest and burned the inside of the left arm just a bit. His other shot hit me just a bit south of my solar plexus, happily while I was wearing a Second Chance Z9 soft Kevlar vest, fairly new at that time. He droped his carbine and walked away. I considered a magazine dump into him, but was concerned that he might have pals along with him, and had but one full spare mag for the GP- and it had Finnish Lapua ball ammo in it. Thankfully, I didn't need it.
The first cop on the scene was our county sheriff, on whose advise I didn't bother filing a written report...and I got to keep the abandoned carbine out of the deal. About a year later, the guy with the bulletproof head died in a DUI accident [probably- it was a hit and run] on his Harley.
If he'd gotten past me, his next problem would have been my fiancée at the time, waiting for him with my Remington 870 with 8 rounds of Winchester short magnum #1 buckshot in it. She had the better idea.
I mostly carry 1911s in .45 nowadays, though the last serious shooting in which I was involved was a matter regarding a rabid dog about two years back, in which I used a Walther P.38- which has nice, large, very visible sights. The first one broke the dogs back/spine at the hindquarters, and the second one was a mercy shot, unfortunately NOT to the head, since that's the part the state board of health needs intact for post-mortem examination and testing.
Me too. Though yours is a bit long to fit in my tennis racket bag or banjo case.
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