BIGRED Z
05-17-2008, 11:40 PM
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We both passed our shoots with flying colors. And me with a gun I had just bought 5 minutes before the qualifying shoot too!!!
I had a 380 that I was a damn good shot with, but we both wanted a 9mm and only had one. So I bought a Smith & Wesson 9mm (their Glock version) when we arrived at Mark's guns. I was so excited to shoot it, I wanted to use it for the qualifying shoot. So I did.
Totally different trigger than the 380 or the Taurus 9mm, but I got all 20 shots in the silhouette, albeit a bit lower than I intended. So my guy would have died of severe peritonitis rather than an immediate gunshot wound to the heart. (This means I shot up his abdomen so bad, that his colon would have leaked toxic poop into his system and created infection so bad he would never have survived, as opposed to a heart shot.)
The guy teaching was a cop. He was awesome. The 2 hour video we had to see was absolute torture. Had to see the lawyers read, verbatim, the penal codes regarding gun laws...all in lawyer speak. It was horrible.
But we learned a lot regarding exactly when deadly force is acceptable, and when it's not. Handy info to have when you carry.
We also both picked up holsters you carry the gun inside your pants and connects to a belt loop on the outside.
We are now incognito....lol, well at least after we get our permits....
The most surprising thing to me was that the instructor was a cop. He said in no uncertain terms, when conditions are appropriate, shoot to kill. Don't go for a foot, or a flesh wound. Shoot to kill.
Didn't expect this from a cop. Kentucky gun laws rule!
Ron always thought I was nuts when I said I would shoot to kill, he was more inclined to merely wound and detain till the cops arrived. I always maintained my premise that dead men can't sue. And that if someone was in my house that didn't live there, certainly didn't intend to inquire about my fine designing skills. If they didn't belong there, they were dead if I had anything to say about it.
It was nice to be validated in that thought by a real cop. Ron is still undescided...But I will defend him in that men traditionally think they have way more control in combat with another man than would a woman.
But if I were in the house, I trust he would stop a burglar/murderer/rapist by any means necessary. I just worry what he would do if it were only him. Me, yeah, I'm gonna kill you. Period. Like I said, dead men can't sue.
Class was good.
We both passed our shoots with flying colors. And me with a gun I had just bought 5 minutes before the qualifying shoot too!!!
I had a 380 that I was a damn good shot with, but we both wanted a 9mm and only had one. So I bought a Smith & Wesson 9mm (their Glock version) when we arrived at Mark's guns. I was so excited to shoot it, I wanted to use it for the qualifying shoot. So I did.
Totally different trigger than the 380 or the Taurus 9mm, but I got all 20 shots in the silhouette, albeit a bit lower than I intended. So my guy would have died of severe peritonitis rather than an immediate gunshot wound to the heart. (This means I shot up his abdomen so bad, that his colon would have leaked toxic poop into his system and created infection so bad he would never have survived, as opposed to a heart shot.)
The guy teaching was a cop. He was awesome. The 2 hour video we had to see was absolute torture. Had to see the lawyers read, verbatim, the penal codes regarding gun laws...all in lawyer speak. It was horrible.
But we learned a lot regarding exactly when deadly force is acceptable, and when it's not. Handy info to have when you carry.
We also both picked up holsters you carry the gun inside your pants and connects to a belt loop on the outside.
We are now incognito....lol, well at least after we get our permits....
The most surprising thing to me was that the instructor was a cop. He said in no uncertain terms, when conditions are appropriate, shoot to kill. Don't go for a foot, or a flesh wound. Shoot to kill.
Didn't expect this from a cop. Kentucky gun laws rule!
Ron always thought I was nuts when I said I would shoot to kill, he was more inclined to merely wound and detain till the cops arrived. I always maintained my premise that dead men can't sue. And that if someone was in my house that didn't live there, certainly didn't intend to inquire about my fine designing skills. If they didn't belong there, they were dead if I had anything to say about it.
It was nice to be validated in that thought by a real cop. Ron is still undescided...But I will defend him in that men traditionally think they have way more control in combat with another man than would a woman.
But if I were in the house, I trust he would stop a burglar/murderer/rapist by any means necessary. I just worry what he would do if it were only him. Me, yeah, I'm gonna kill you. Period. Like I said, dead men can't sue.
Class was good.