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Another Day, Another Build (continued)
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:29:11 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 10/28/2018 1:04 PM, wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 11:01:27 -0400, John H. wrote: Yet you were the guy claiming he could outshoot all those Prince George's County cops From my experience street cops are not that good a shot. You only have to look at their real life performance. They seem to hit the target with 10% or fewer shots fired and that is usually at "belly gun" range. My cop buddies say they are not much better on the range. In an active, serious, shoot or be shot situation, what's the realistic accurate range of a handgun anyway? 20 feet at best IMO. I think cops had to learn how to shoot better when they had revolvers. The guy who always won the Charlotte Co Sheriff's bowling pin competition (knock down 5 bowling pins at 7 yards, shoot till you get them all) did it with a S&W Chief. The guys with the double stack Sigs went to a second magazine far too often to make bystanders comfortable. I am always reminded of the NYC "shootout" between the cops and one armed man. They hit 11 bystanders. They fired around 60-70 rounds and I think the bad guy still survived. Then there is the guy they had trapped in a stairwell, they fired 41 shots and hit him about a dozen times. |
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Another Day, Another Build (continued)
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 17:11:52 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 10/28/18 4:02 PM, wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 13:29:11 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 10/28/2018 1:04 PM, wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 11:01:27 -0400, John H. wrote: Yet you were the guy claiming he could outshoot all those Prince George's County cops From my experience street cops are not that good a shot. You only have to look at their real life performance. They seem to hit the target with 10% or fewer shots fired and that is usually at "belly gun" range. My cop buddies say they are not much better on the range. In an active, serious, shoot or be shot situation, what's the realistic accurate range of a handgun anyway? 20 feet at best IMO. I think cops had to learn how to shoot better when they had revolvers. The guy who always won the Charlotte Co Sheriff's bowling pin competition (knock down 5 bowling pins at 7 yards, shoot till you get them all) did it with a S&W Chief. The guys with the double stack Sigs went to a second magazine far too often to make bystanders comfortable. I am always reminded of the NYC "shootout" between the cops and one armed man. They hit 11 bystanders. They fired around 60-70 rounds and I think the bad guy still survived. Then there is the guy they had trapped in a stairwell, they fired 41 shots and hit him about a dozen times. It certainly takes a different skill set to shoot decently with a revolver. Not really, particularly in single action. I agree the double action trigger pull is different than a single action but my Ruger 90 is double action on the first shot and that might be your most important one. It is not unlike my Colt revolvers. That is why I always drill hammer down. |
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