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Mr. Luddite[_4_]

On 2/26/2018 4:36 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:44:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I have one also. My only revolver. But after watching that video I am
thinking maybe a .357 revolver would be more appropriate.

Then again, it's not clear how many times the mother actually hit the
perp. He was out of the camera range when she was firing the most
shots. She hit him once in the arm looks like. The daughter clearly hit
him a couple of times as well.

A bad shot with a .357 is nowhere as good as a well placed shot with a
.22
A FBI instructor told me years ago, "shoot what you can hit with"
after I was criticized about my "puny" .380 by my DC cop buddy.
They were friends and I tagged along several times for some free
lessons. His advice was you might be able to throw away your first
shot but then you better be aiming because any shock value to the
other guy of being shot at is gone. In those days (66-67) the
philosophy was get a round down range as fast as you can, then fire a
well aimed double tap from the Weaver position and assess.
These days just about all I do at the range with a handgun is extend
and fire from high retention as fast and smooth as I can. I practice
at various angles to the target and standing in various stances. My
only goal at this point is instinctively being able to get off one or
two shots into a 6" circle at 7 yards without really thinking about
aiming. Basically like skeet shooting, you hit where you are looking.

Hard to remember all this good advice with a guy waving a gun in your
face though. I can see it now:

"Oh **** !! That guy is going to shoot me! I have about 2 seconds to
defend myself. Now, what was it that guy on rec.boats say to do? Oh
yeah, get behind him and shoot him in the ear. Excuse me, sir, would you
mind turning around so I can shove this gun barrel in your ear?

Nice and interesting to read but unless you are being challenged every
day and practicing defense everyday your are more likely to just react
instinctively as well as you can. Even cops don't get shot at often
considering the years they serve, despite what we hear and see in the news.