Years ago I shot Hunter's Pistol Silhouette competitively, well I say competitively I kept the bottom tiers warm.
Anyway one day we went to the range for practice only to find the police had booked the place without telling anybody. They were running through some training that involved walking sideways past man sized metal cutouts at about 10 yards. At one point they took a break and we commented that they didn't make all that many dings (metal targets "ding" when hit) compared to the amount of lead headed downrange. They asked if we could do better. My 17 year old self said I'd like to try but I wanted to do it at 100 yards. At 100 yards, with a single shot pistol I was more accurate than any of the cops. With a semi-auto I was faster and more accurate (meaning I never missed) than any of the cops. They were shooting human scale targets, our 100 yard targets (cutouts of rams) were much smaller, maybe 1.5 feet by 1 foot. Then they threw us off the range "Its not safe to have you here." -Curt Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 22:53:54 -0400 (EDT) From: m...@voyager.net To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] buymbparts is dead drunk and rattling Message-ID: <58474.107.194.192.215.1378522434.squir...@webmail.core.com> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > According to my local firearms instructor (who is a cop and also a > firearms > instructor for his department), most cops are not particularly good shots. > They have so much other crap they have to do that for most "good enough" > is > good enough when it comes to qualifying. The percentage of cops that ever > fire their weapon for real is quite small. But it's a different story for > "aggressive enforcement" teams. Yeah, the death squads are expected to actually hit family pets when they shoot at them. The rest of the cops, well, one hit on target and two hits on bystanders or other cops per 17 shot magazine seems to be the standard performance. Mitch. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
