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TEN RULES OF A GUNFIGHT
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Posted on 12/12/2001 12:21:34 PM PST by tarawa

TEN RULES OF A GUNFIGHT


1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two.

2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice.

3. Only hits count.

4. If your shooting stance is good you 're probably not moving fast enough or using cover correctly.

5. Keep shooting until the threat no longer exists; then stay sharp until somebody with a badge tells you to freeze.

6. If you can choose what to bring to a gun fight, bring a long gun and a friend.

7. In ten years nobody will remember the details of calibre, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.

8. If you are not shooting you should be reloading or running.

9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependant on "pucker factor" than the inherent accuracy of the gun.

10. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty


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1 posted on 12/12/2001 12:21:34 PM PST by tarawa
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To: tarawa
LOL Good Post!
2 posted on 12/12/2001 12:28:13 PM PST by Rightwing Canuck
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To: tarawa
Love it! Sounds like Clint Smith, from Thunder Ranch. Here are some more Smith-isms...

The World According To Clint

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Clint Smith, director of Thunder Ranch, is part drill instructor, part stand-up comic. Here are a few of his observations on tactics, firearms, self defense and life as we know it in the civilized world.

Tactics:
"So a guy says, ‘I’m good! I move, I shoot, I communicate.’ Yeah, but can you do it on the ground? Because that’s where you’re gonna be in a fight."

Gunfights:
"It’s real different when the bad guy shoots back. It doesn’t mean you’re going to lose, it just makes the story more interesting afterward."

Caution:
"The best example of good training is to never get in a fight."

Defensive Driving:
"If you’re accosted, don’t get out of the car. Put it in some other gear and put both feet on the gas. Clint’s school of driving-add power!"

Running Out Of Ammo:
"If pointing an empty gun at your opponent makes him duck, you may live for an extra two seconds-and who knows? I may find another gun, the bad guy may give up, or the ammo fairy may drop me a magazine."

Target Recognition:
"If we’re going down a hall and I see the end of a double barrel shotgun, I better communicate to my partner, ‘cause I can be pretty sure it’s not the Easter bunny on the other end."

Marksmanship:
"Open up the ground between you and the threat. At arm’s distance, you opponent doesn’t have to be good, he just has to be lucky."

Coordination:
"It doesn’t do me any good to have a partner and shoot ‘em-although I’ve had some partners I’d like to shoot."

Verbal Skills:
"You better learn to communicate real well, because when you’re out there on the street, you’ll have to talk to a lot more people than you’ll have to shoot, or at least that’s the way I think it’s supposed to work."

Big Bore Sixguns:
"...He asked, ‘Did you hit him?’ Hey, I don’t know, but he was smokin’ when he ran outta here."

Counting Your Shots:
"It’s our experience that in a fight you will continue to shoot the gun until the threat goes away or until the gun is empty."

Hesitation:
"Don’t be a deer caught in the headlights of the Kenworth of life!"

Long Guns Vs. Handguns:
"They say you can’t use a rifle or shotgun indoors because a bad guy will grab the barrel. Yeah? Well, he better hang on, ‘cause I’m gonna light him up and it’ll definitely be an "E" ticket ride."

Conserving Ammo:
"People ask, ‘What do you do if the guy’s on drugs?’ Shoot ‘em! ‘But what if it doesn’t work?’ Shoot ‘em some more!"

The Defensive Mindset:
"The only reason we would plant our feet is to dig ‘em real good so we can run, ‘cause we’re about to get the hell out of here."

The Survival Instinct:
"Anyone can understand shooting to protect themselves. You give me five minutes and I’ll make anyone on this planet mad enough to shoot me. The real question is, will they have that much time in a fight? You need to make that decision before you start to fight-only you life depends on it."

More:
"The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. I’d choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead."

"The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win."

"Every time I teach a class, I discover I don’t know something."

"Don’t forget, incoming fire has the right of way."

"Make (your attacker) advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, bet he’s gonna have to beat me to death with it, ‘cause it’s going to be empty."

"If you’re not shootin’, you should be loadin’. If you’re not loadin’, you should be movin’. If you’re not movin’, someone’s gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick."

"When you reload (in low light encounters), don’t put your flashlight in your back pocket. If you light yourself up, you’ll look like an angel or the tooth fairy - and you’re gonna be one of ‘em pretty soon."

"Do something. It may be wrong, but do something."

"Nothing adds a little class to a sniper course like a babe in a ghille suit."

"Shoot what’s available, as long as it’s available, until something else becomes available."

"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That’s ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?"

"Don’t shoot fast, shoot good."

"You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or use any other word you think will work, but I’ve found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much the universal language."

"You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it."

"You cannot save the planet. You may be able to save yourself and your family."

"(Thunder Ranch) will be here as long as you’ll have us or until someone makes us go away, and either way it’ll be exciting."

http://www.thunderranchinc.com/articles/quotes.htm

And my favorite, "Anybody worth shooting once is worth shooting twice."

3 posted on 12/12/2001 12:28:37 PM PST by white trash redneck
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To: tarawa
Rules to live by!
4 posted on 12/12/2001 12:28:51 PM PST by blau993
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To: blau993
Presence of mind is good; absence of body is better.
5 posted on 12/12/2001 12:29:59 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic
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To: tarawa; KentuckyWoman
That's Great!!!!

The only item that I could add is:

The Only 'Fair Fights' are the ones that you walk away from !! !!


(btw: do you know a Trainer named Buford ?)

6 posted on 12/12/2001 12:34:52 PM PST by Alabama_Wild_Man
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To: tarawa
11. A handgun is a weapon you use to fight your way to a rifle.
7 posted on 12/12/2001 12:35:58 PM PST by CWRWinger
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To: white trash redneck
"If we’re going down a hall and I see the end of a double barrel shotgun, I better communicate to my partner, ‘cause I can be pretty sure it’s not the Easter bunny on the other end."

Unless its Bun-Bun from Sluggy Freelance....

8 posted on 12/12/2001 12:39:31 PM PST by Celtjew Libertarian
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To: tarawa
Visited a gun club and shot a gun for the first time last night -- asked them what was the best thing to get for defense. Unanimous answer: a shotgun.
9 posted on 12/12/2001 12:44:15 PM PST by VeritatisSplendor
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To: tarawa
I use these every time I play CS.
10 posted on 12/12/2001 12:50:45 PM PST by Texaggie79
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To: Alabama_Wild_Man
I would like to add:

Gun control is being able to hit what you aim at.....(MY personal favorite...)

11 posted on 12/12/2001 12:51:22 PM PST by KentuckyWoman
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To: VeritatisSplendor
A shot gun is good for some things but they are very hard to carry with you all the time that where hand guns come it something you have with you when you need it.
12 posted on 12/12/2001 1:32:32 PM PST by riverrunner
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To: KentuckyWoman
Gun control is being able to hit what you aim at.....(MY personal favorite...)

True, but gun control is also using both hands on the big bores.

13 posted on 12/12/2001 1:36:04 PM PST by J Jay
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To: KentuckyWoman
"...Gun control is being able to hit what you aim at..."


Extra Points Scored.....if they're movin'...

But, like they say.....


14 posted on 12/12/2001 1:38:01 PM PST by Alabama_Wild_Man
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To: Alabama_Wild_Man
Sounds like the first rule of a street fight, if you got him down, stomp him, he may get up and kick your a@@.
15 posted on 12/12/2001 1:40:32 PM PST by Little Bill
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To: tarawa
Words to live by.
16 posted on 12/12/2001 1:42:41 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot
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To: StoneColdGOP
ping
17 posted on 12/12/2001 1:44:40 PM PST by Bella_Bru
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To: VeritatisSplendor
I went to a gun store/range for the first time a few weeks ago. Got a Mossberg Maverick and learned how to use it. I had a blast, so to speak. I was the only woman in there and if I had gone a few hours later when the crowd really rolled in, am sure I would have secured a date for the evening! When I was done shooting, it felt like my armpit had been on a ten-mile horseback ride!
18 posted on 12/12/2001 1:45:02 PM PST by Apple_Hills
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To: KentuckyWoman
Here's my poster for the anti-million-moron-march we did here in SoCal. That's Mercuria with me.


19 posted on 12/12/2001 1:51:44 PM PST by Henchster
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To: tarawa
5. Keep shooting until the threat no longer exists; then stay sharp until somebody with a badge tells you to freeze.

Unless the "threat" is the one wearing the badge!

20 posted on 12/12/2001 1:52:27 PM PST by VoiceOfBruck
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