There was no thinking, there was no thought process at all.
He said everything happened so fast he really didn't know what happened. It was shoot or be shot.
He thought the other guy had shot him in the finger until the police told him he had shot himself.
BTW he was good enough that even though the other guy had his gun in his face, he was able to pull his gun fire. He lived, the other guy got hauled off in the meat wagon.
>>There was no thinking, there was no thought process at all.
There shouldn’t be any thought process at all. Anyone with an hour of range time and a box of ammo downrange can instinctively grab and fire a snubbie revolver. But if you are pointing a revolver forward, I still say that it is nearly impossible to shoot your finger off. Perhaps you could take the tip off (just the tip, not even to the first knuckle), but he had to do something grossly stupid to take his finger off. There is more to that story, but its even more embarrassing than the one he’ll tell you.
I’m thinking that he shot his finger off after the shooting—perhaps during an attempt to decock the revolver without thinking? He may have finished shooting and the gun was cocked. He realized it when held the gun sideways and looked at it. Then, he holds it by the barrel to steady it while he lowers the hammer and *blam*. Finger gone.
Regardless, any gun seller who won’t sell one of the most popular handgun types of all time because he had a one-in-many-million accident is pretty dumb.