Posted on 12/05/2014 3:31:03 PM PST by jazusamo
Holding the reins of two horses with one hand, Austin Police Sgt. Adam Johnson raised his service pistol and fired a bullseye into the target some 312 feet away.
Down went Larry McQuilliams, and so ended his rampage through the streets of the Texas capital, where he’d fired more than 100 rounds from his AK-47 and .22-caliber rifles at buildings. The shot, from Johnson’s Smith & Wesson M&P .40 pistol, hit McQuilliams square in the chest and made the 15-year-veteran the toast of gun enthusiasts around the country.
“At a minimum, it was extraordinary shot,” said Army Maj. John Plaster, a retired Special Forces operator, long-range shooting expert and author of “The Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers.”
It was not immediately clear if Johnson’s center-mass shot killed McQuilliams, or if the longtime criminal died from a self-inflicted shot a moment later. Results from an autopsy are pending, but there’s no disputing the improbably accurate bullet fired by Johnson brought a safe end to the Nov. 28 incident.
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I hear that als been doing a lot of prep work for that eulogy tonight where hes not wanted..by the grandmother of the deceased
Nice shootin’ there, Tex!
He wuz a white boy trying to get his life back together.
I’m with you. My guess is that the reporting is not accurate or the reporting is an accurate retelling of an inaccurate telling of the facts. Not accusing anyone of lying but as my all time favorite American would say, “Trust but verify”.
My Ruger 44 Mag was great that way too. Shorter barrel though. I could still hit a coyote at a hundred yards. Of course, I wasn’t holding a team of horses with the other hand or under the kind of stress this guy was under either. Nice shot!
Ol' Eagle Eye humbled many a pistolero, myself included.
I will hit you with my Glock 21 at 100 yards most every time. even easier with a good revolver.
Hugin Posted:
“I used to shoot my Ruger Mark III 22lr at the 100 yard range. I could hit a torso sized target about half the time,”
Hot Tabasco replied:
I just channeled the Lone Ranger and he said his impression of you only equals your own...Truly remarkable shooting.
marktwain comments:
Not that hard, if you practice. When I was in Panama 25-30 years ago, I could hit a 16” gong about 80% of the time, one handed, with my Colt Woodsman with a 6” barrel, at 100 yards.
It is an accurate pistol with a good trigger, and I had spent four years on a University pistol team, shooting one handed only.
It is doable. The Smith & Wesson probably only holds to 10” at a hundred yards (group size) while a good .22 is likely to hold to less than a 6” group at that distance.
Jeeze, did he really have to kill him?
Why didn’t he just shoot him in the hand?
Police horses generally have a lot of training before they are put on the street. Gun fire, idiots grabbing at them, pushing back crowds and all kinds of really wild stuff. They are pretty much bomb proof.
I shoot all pistols to 100 yards every time I go to the range. Some pistols are very accurate to 100 yards, easily minute of bad guy; 3 MOA or less. I don’t get where this notion from some people comes from that a pistol is a worthless firearm and should be used only in fire fights in phone booths and glove boxes. I shoot several calibers, the 357, 40, 44 mag, 45, to 500 yards at an iron range. They all hit targets at that distance. Of course, not so reliably, but it shows what they can do. I like to stretch shooting from the mere 7 yards that most people shoot to the very limits. Knowing the lunatic fringe is the best way to know how to shoot up close. Handloading also helps the accuracy and power, but even factory ammo can be shot reliably past 7 yards. At 50 yards I pop the head off daisies with a few shots. It isn’t hard if you keep in practice. I just don’t let normal “limits” be my limit. I also dare anyone that claims pistols are useless instruments to stand back at 500 yards and let me pop off a few rounds. They should put their ass where their mouth is, since they are anyway.
Well, don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Go out and try some of it sometime. Hell, you can throw a rock 55 yards. 40 S&W is good to well past 500 yards.
Down goes McQuilliams! Down goes McQuilliams!
LOL .... Yep ... As stated I hit the range at work twice a week and on my own each weekend. I shoot multiple caliber as you do yet tend to stick with one that I carry each day for the APoA long range thang.... My carry rig gets fed 125gr gold dot hollow points from Speer so that’s what becomes muscle memory matic as to what it will do and won’t ..... 357sig caliber, converted glock 35 from 40 to 357sig. It’s all utility, combat Tupperware .
Stay safe !
Was there a grassy knoll nearby?
I thought about that also. They appear to be very well trained horses but I would expect that as the horses work around crowds of pedestrians.
LOL! I love it, there are more than a few libs that would say that. :-)
“125gr gold dot hollow points from Speer “
I bet that shoots real nice, too!
I carry a 45 with 185gr Speer GoldDots at 1050fps from the Kimber Ultra Carry and 1200fps from the Kimber TLE. Muscle memory is exactly how they shoot; aim point every time.
Also, the normal AK47 is ineffective past 50 yards, especially at the level of training the average shooter gets. Aimed fire is strictly optional. Anybody who has ever diligently tried to increase their accuracy with a weapon of that kind eventually learns that the AK is a disposable weapon for a disposable shooter.
That's not to say that it couldn't be rebuilt from the ground-up, but it's a project for enthusiastic shooters who know what should be fixed. Even the Coalition forces that use their high-quality AKs need go out on only one combat operation with the Americans to start begging their governments to upgrade ASAP to a first-world weapon based on Armalite, FN, Steyr, etc. platforms.
Even as a duffer with a handgun, I know I can get a decent probability of a hit at 100 yards on a thug with an AK47, while he can only hope for blind luck at that range. Probably won't kill him, but it can be very effective at giving him a bad day.
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