I recently spent a few fun hours re-checking my zero with a
newish load for my AR. I also took the
time to set up my chronograph. While I
wish I had the ability to shoot targets at 50, 100, 150 and 200 yards, it isn’t
very feasible. The next best option is
ballistic software. If I have all the
important parameters, the software can calculate my impact displacement at
different distances. Since the majority
of times I’m interested in hitting a 12x12 inch plate no farther than 200 yards
the important parameters are, bullet weight, muzzle velocity (hence the
chronograph), Ballistic Coefficient (manufacturer’s website) and distanced
zeroed as well as scope height over the center of the bore. These are all pretty easy to get.
I didn’t really expect anything to change much. I altered my windage slightly and was good to
go. The really important things I got
out of checking my zero was time practicing the perfect trigger pull and confirmation
nothing was loose on my rifle. I know
and believe that if I do my part, the rifle would live up to its side of the
partnership. You can’t buy confidence
like that.
There’s a good reason to shoot matches on sunny, sweat-dropping,
hot, windless days. It has to do with discipline.
No, no, not Madame Fifi’s discipline,
but the ability to stay focused on the task at hand.
There is a cycle of discipline with matches. In a good club level match, all the shooters
take turns, shooting, scoring, patching, running the stage and acting as safety
officer for each other. Some portions of
the stage are very important, like shooting the weapon. Some are extremely critical like assuring
nobody is downrange at the beginning of the stage. Others are less important and of no critical
nature like patching the target.
Mastering the ability to change your focus and concentration
will benefit you in many ways. Changing
focus quickly as conditions change is a useful skill. Knowing you have these abilities is a large
percentage of accomplishing this.
There is still a lot of excitement over the mass shooting at
the Orlando nightclub, Pulse. Unless you
live on your very own cloud nine world, you know that a Dickless Wonder shot up
a gay nightclub, killing 49 and wounding 53.
The police arrive on the scene and attempt to negotiate with Dickless
who, now that he has an audience, pledges allegiance to ISIS and talks about
putting hostages into bomb vests. It’s
hard to criticize the police under those circumstances, but I will anyway. They appear to have fallen into the trap of
believing Dickless Wonder wanted to survive the event. That’s the old hostage model.
In the old model, the guy with the gun wants something,
maybe to shoot his ex-wife, or maybe he wants a good ham sandwich and media
attention. But above all he wants to
live through it and get away or at least become the darling of the media. This wasn’t always true, but the old model
worked well enough most of the time.
The new model appears to be way different. Dickless wants to kill enough people to get a
seat on the national media stage and set a new record. He wants people to say “Not since Dickless,
has anyone achieved higher level of mayhem and violence.” He’s not especially interested in surviving,
as long as he can continue to kill at his leisure.
What this means for us is that we can’t depend on the police
to rescue us. It’s up to us to know
where are the exits, both the official and unofficial (like the kitchen’s back
door). In Ohio, I can carry into an
establishment serving alcohol if I don’t drink.
That’s a small price to pay. It
doesn’t take advanced legal training to know if someone is killing random,
unarmed individuals, the law allows you to stop him anyway you can. Your humanity demands it.
One of my favorite websites kind of suggested that having a
low capacity, hard to shoot, small caliber handgun is pretty useless in these
circumstances.
After a lot of thought and reviewing the tape at http://tactical-talk.blogspot.com/2015/07/theresa-lot-of-hot-shit-stuff-on.html
as well as the video tape of the execution of Paris police
officer Ahmed Merabet following the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the security
tape from a bar during the November 2015 attack in Paris have lead me to a
different conclusion.
What’s the worst that could happen if you emptied your 5
shot airweight revolver at any of these criminals?
Imagine you leaned out your window and fire two rounds at
one of Officer Merabet killers and three at the other before they executed
him. I think they would have thought “Damn,
someone is trying to kill me, we better beat feet!”
The guy with the AK in the bar and grill during the Nov 15
Paris terrorist attack, what do you think would have happened if the guy hiding
behind the bar dumped three rounds at him and maybe even skipped one off of
him? The terrorist may have opened up on
the empty bar, but he might have also thought “Damn they’re shooting back. Nobody said they would shoot back. Do I still get 72 virgins if I'm wounded and my leader shoots
me instead of patching and packing me out?”
Dickless in Orlando wasn’t a very good shot. One survivor reported on NPR he was shot
twice in the leg, played dead and was later shot two more time in the arm and
hand by Dickless who was aiming for his victim’s head. I have to think if some popped off with a
little .22 caliber semi auto with five rounds in it and managed to scare
Dickless, Orlando would have turned out with fewer deaths.
What am I saying?
When someone is killing people around you, don’t wait for your turn. Take the initiative and fight back!
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