"JAXAshby" wrote
joe, faced with a professional you wouldn't stand a snow ball's chance in
Hell
of living even a few hundreths of a second. ...

While this may or may not be true (I don't know Joe's background &
training), he is hardly likely to find any real pros, such as SEALs, FBI
SWAT, etc., committing piracy. Most perp'ing these kinds of crimes are
stupid addicts weakened by their habits (Smart crooks become politicians and
pass anti-gun laws to protect their less intellegent brethern). This gives
Joe an edge. When two young men broke into an elderly (80s) man's home
recently the geezer shot one of them to death with his own gun then chased
the other away. But you'll not read that one in the N.Y. Times or Washington
Compost.

yeah, sure, right, ubetcha. every pirate/thief on the planet has the reaction
time of a snail, and shoots with the accuracy of an 8 year old girl on a
badmitten court.

joe, faced with a professional you wouldn't stand a snow ball's chance in
Hell
of living even a few hundreths of a second. ...

While this may or may not be true (I don't know Joe's background &
training), he is hardly likely to find any real pros, such as SEALs, FBI
SWAT, etc., committing piracy. Most perp'ing these kinds of crimes are
stupid addicts weakened by their habits (Smart crooks become politicians and
pass anti-gun laws to protect their less intellegent brethern). This gives
Joe an edge. When two young men broke into an elderly (80s) man's home
recently the geezer shot one of them to death with his own gun then chased
the other away. But you'll not read that one in the N.Y. Times or Washington
Compost.

A friend has fits of remorse if he throws a round outside a 12 inch circle
at 1000 yards firing offhand (standing, no support) using an old Garand with
iron sights. Another whacked several Iraqis at nearly twice that range with
a .50 cal sniper rifle. They're what I call good, but it took alot of
training and practice.

I'm a mediocre shot by those standards. I'd need a scope and some support to
hit anything at 1000 yards. I can however lay round after round on a
man-size target at 50-100 yards with a pistol, and twice that with a rifle.
I have conscientiously spent many many hours firing literally 1000s of
rounds to achieve even that moderate level of skill.

I doubt that many pirates have bothered to practice that strenuously and
hence doubt their ability to shoot even as poorly as I do. In fact, I
suspect they shoot even worse than NYPD officers. One would be pretty safe
so long as they were trying to hit you - given the percent of bullets that
hit their target in typical shoot outs.

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
yeah, sure, right, ubetcha. every pirate/thief on the planet has the
reaction
time of a snail, and shoots with the accuracy of an 8 year old girl on a
badmitten court.

Practice shmactice, I carry a sawed off double barrel.

SV

"Vito" wrote in message
...
A friend has fits of remorse if he throws a round outside a 12 inch circle
at 1000 yards firing offhand (standing, no support) using an old Garand
with
iron sights. Another whacked several Iraqis at nearly twice that range
with
a .50 cal sniper rifle. They're what I call good, but it took alot of
training and practice.

I'm a mediocre shot by those standards. I'd need a scope and some support
to
hit anything at 1000 yards. I can however lay round after round on a
man-size target at 50-100 yards with a pistol, and twice that with a
rifle.
I have conscientiously spent many many hours firing literally 1000s of
rounds to achieve even that moderate level of skill.

I doubt that many pirates have bothered to practice that strenuously and
hence doubt their ability to shoot even as poorly as I do. In fact, I
suspect they shoot even worse than NYPD officers. One would be pretty
safe
so long as they were trying to hit you - given the percent of bullets that
hit their target in typical shoot outs.

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
yeah, sure, right, ubetcha. every pirate/thief on the planet has the
reaction
time of a snail, and shoots with the accuracy of an 8 year old girl on a
badmitten court.

Practice shmactice, I carry a sawed off double barrel.

SV

careful Scotty, you'r going to have joe and vito start telling how *they* can
hit a quarter thrown in the air at 400 yards with a sawed off shotgun, one
handed.

A friend has fits of remorse if he throws a round outside a 12 inch circle
at 1000 yards firing offhand (standing, no support) using an old Garand with
iron sights.

with a Garand, eh?

[scoffle]