BehindBlueI's
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- Oct 3, 2012
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Is this a trick? The answer is in your question, HITTING.
Goes back to not sucking solves a lot of issues. You don't suck. You telling me that in that scenario you couldn't hit a fist sized target with a j-frame? I mean, I know I can and I'm not that good. With a modicum of training the vast majority of students were hitting 50y torsos at Sand Burr after the snub nose class. Not as fast as with a larger gun, of course, and again if you can carry a larger gun do it. But that's not the same as just constantly ******** on an option that works for a lot of people a lot of the time who just can't carry a duty pistol.
One of the biggest proponents of the full size or dead in the streets proponents who used to post here spent his work day unarmed. Go figure. The j-frame a similar has it's place as much as a rifle has it's place and hardware isn't the biggest concern.
Serious question, say you have 100 chips to assign to a hypothetical fighter before sending him off to face the scenario in question. How many chips would you assign to:
1) Basic gun handling: The ability to safely draw, present the firearm, fire the firearm upon command but not before, and safely put the firearm away.
2) Basic managing unknown contacts skills.
3) Decision making under stress skills.
4) Pure marksmanship skills, however you choose to define that.
5) Handgun selection.
6) Ammunition selection.
7) Unarmed skills.
8) CIT/Managing the mentally ill skills.
So, again, I ask @Route 45 or you or whoever would like to answer, what varies in the outcome of this event with revolver vs Glock? What is different in the outcome if our deputy shoots 7 less times or 12 more times?