TxRVer wrote:When you qualify at the range, make sure you miss the target a few times. That way you'll have an excuse for shooting center mass because you aren't a perfect shot.

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TxRVer wrote:When you qualify at the range, make sure you miss the target a few times. That way you'll have an excuse for shooting center mass because you aren't a perfect shot.
This reminds me...karl wrote:TxRVer wrote:When you qualify at the range, make sure you miss the target a few times. That way you'll have an excuse for shooting center mass because you aren't a perfect shot.Some of these are bad but this is the most outrageous to me.
Same here.dicion wrote:karl wrote:
I actually was told, by a pretty (in?)famous former radio personality who has a gun shop in NW Houston (not naming names XD), that when you take the CHL Course, they keep the qualifying target, and will use it against you in any shooting case. If you make one giant hole in the center, you will be portrayed as a professional killer, and if you are all over it, they will portray you as an amateur not capable of handling a gun properly...
You're milking.hoot wrote:I kept my qualifying target because most of my misses were in the lower left quadrant.
I was hoping somebody would suggest the reason and some way to correct it.
Hoot
Oh, I've got one along these lines, saw the sign at a gun show and couldn't resist taking a picture... let me find it.CrimsonSoul wrote:My sisters husband, an ex-cop told me that he wants my sister to get her CHL and that this coming May (this was a few months ago) that they were doing away with the SA and that everyone would have to qual with a revolver and have the NSA restriction on their CHL
Was he an MP by chance? A lot of MPs I've talked to said when they were in it was policy not to carry with one chambered.silverbear wrote:A fellow CHLer at work, former army and over all gun guy doesn't keep a round chambered. Says he'll rack one right before he needs to use his weapon.
Could you post a link to the study so we may bone up on this, too?Outbreaker wrote:"You are 2 times more likely to have your own gun used against you than you are to protect yourself".......quoting a specific study
my immediate response was "If I miss 8 times (1911) then I deserve to have my empty gun wrestled from my hands and beaten to death with it"
After I studied the study I said. "Do you realize when you take suicide out of the data set and ONLY LOOK AT self defence use of a gun that you are 5 times more likely to survive the encounter than if you are unarmed?"
I briefly had that discussion at Cabela's with a lady and her husband. If I mentioned that I could only shoot to stop they insisted that would mean I wasn't in fear for my life and therefor I'd be guilty of murder.The Annoyed Man wrote:My answer to those kinds of things is usually along the lines of, "I'm not allowed to 'shoot to kill' under any circumstances. That would be murder. I am, however, allowed to 'shoot to stop,' and if that results in the other guy's death, well then, that's what it took to stop them."dicion wrote:We all know someone.... someone who thinks that they know the law, or know how things work, but in reality have no clue.
I made this thread so we can all share any 'gems' that have been told to us by these people.
Today, I was informed that "Shooting someone in the leg isn't [lethal force], since you're not trying to kill them", and that "It's considered the same as punching someone. You're allowed to do it before you're allowed to shoot to kill."
This was back when I was an Epidemiologist with the a Health Dept. I had access to databases and when studies would come out using databases that I had access to I could double check the statistics.UpTheIrons wrote:Could you post a link to the study so we may bone up on this, too?Outbreaker wrote:"You are 2 times more likely to have your own gun used against you than you are to protect yourself".......quoting a specific study
my immediate response was "If I miss 8 times (1911) then I deserve to have my empty gun wrestled from my hands and beaten to death with it"
After I studied the study I said. "Do you realize when you take suicide out of the data set and ONLY LOOK AT self defence use of a gun that you are 5 times more likely to survive the encounter than if you are unarmed?"