Why Am I Here?
Mar 31, 2021 19:31:00 #
Mar 31, 2021 20:14:50 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
robertjerl wrote:
On my report cards for 1-5 the only bad? things no... (show quote)
Having just turned 70, five years younger than you, I don't think I'd want to face you down in a gun fight. LOL. By the way. Thank you for your service.
Mar 31, 2021 20:21:18 #
Mar 31, 2021 20:23:35 #
Mar 31, 2021 20:40:03 #
lmTrying wrote:
Having just turned 70, five years younger than you, I don't think I'd want to face you down in a gun fight. LOL. By the way. Thank you for your service.
Thanks.
I am mostly harmless, to the best of my knowledge I have never shot a single human. As a HQ clerk (classified document control clerk) I did guard and outpost a lot, two patrols outside the wire - at night and only fired 3 times in over two years in Nam somewhere other than the range. Area suppression fire twice and fire at the muzzle flashes on the mountain side once. But I drove around to other bases a lot on courier runs or as duty driver/shotgun guard for the Intel Officer so I got used to being armed all the time. Even when going around inside the compound - "You will be armed. You know too many things and too many safe combinations to risk you getting captured."
Well, as to a face off in a shoot out. Once while doing my annual state qualifying (I did armed alarm response security weekends and during school breaks when I wasn't teaching for several years.) I and a South Korean immigrant were next to each other (he was former SK Army special forces) and I shot a 581 of 600 while he got 590. My shots were in a circle around the Bullseye/X ring and his were neat groups just on the bottom of the X/10 ring. The range master came by and looked over our shoulders then commented "His groups are pretty while your groups are ragged but I don't want either of you mad at me."
Mar 31, 2021 20:45:27 #
raymondh wrote:
Out drawing a glacier on a slow day tickled my funny bone!
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, those glaciers can get up to 6 feet a day I read somewhere. Some days I am lucky to get my two feet to like each other. I was taught something similar to the special forces saying "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast." A smooth shot that hits the target is faster than a blazing fast show off who has trouble hitting the ground or sky. I read the same thing about the "Old West" - a smooth accurate draw and shot that hits the target beats a fast draw who missed.
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