For those of you that carry a handgun, how many of you actually practice defensive shooting. For the sake of this discussion I'm talking about point shooting WITHOUT the use of sights and that the assailant has a weapon in their hand and intends to use it against you. Again, not using sights, can you draw your weapon and point at a body target and hit 3 times out of 3 shots center mass at 7 yards? If your answer is no, I don't know, or I've never tried, IMO you don't need to be carrying.
I hear all the time that I can shoot a 2" group with this gun or that gun or this ammo or that ammo and that's great if your at the range practicing target shooting and just having fun. But what can you do when SHTF? The bad guy isn't going to give you time to calm down or align your sights or anything else. It will be all over by then if he/she has a firearm and intends to shoot you.
I've been shooting almost 60 years and I'm like everyone else in that I enjoy target shooting for fun and have several target pistols just for that purpose. I'm semi disabled in my legs now and can't move around and practice defensive shooting like I used to do. Before this happened, when at the range plinking & target shooting, I always managed to get in 50-150 quality practice rounds with my carry gun. I had other places to shoot also that I could practice my drawing and shooting kneeling down, lying on my side, shooting one handed both right and left handed. And above all doing it without sights.
I'm at home just with my attack cat Jackson so I guess I'm being long winded and boring. The last thing I'd like to say is if you have a place to do it, practice some night shooting with your weapon mounted light or an area lit by a mercury vapor light. It's really different shooting at night and learning how your muzzle flash will affect you. Learn to "shoot where you look" and when you do that you won't need sights and you'll feel more comfortable in nearly any situation.
Merry Christmas and a very happy new year!!! Shoot straight & shoot safe.
Jim D
SE Texas
I hear all the time that I can shoot a 2" group with this gun or that gun or this ammo or that ammo and that's great if your at the range practicing target shooting and just having fun. But what can you do when SHTF? The bad guy isn't going to give you time to calm down or align your sights or anything else. It will be all over by then if he/she has a firearm and intends to shoot you.
I've been shooting almost 60 years and I'm like everyone else in that I enjoy target shooting for fun and have several target pistols just for that purpose. I'm semi disabled in my legs now and can't move around and practice defensive shooting like I used to do. Before this happened, when at the range plinking & target shooting, I always managed to get in 50-150 quality practice rounds with my carry gun. I had other places to shoot also that I could practice my drawing and shooting kneeling down, lying on my side, shooting one handed both right and left handed. And above all doing it without sights.
I'm at home just with my attack cat Jackson so I guess I'm being long winded and boring. The last thing I'd like to say is if you have a place to do it, practice some night shooting with your weapon mounted light or an area lit by a mercury vapor light. It's really different shooting at night and learning how your muzzle flash will affect you. Learn to "shoot where you look" and when you do that you won't need sights and you'll feel more comfortable in nearly any situation.
Merry Christmas and a very happy new year!!! Shoot straight & shoot safe.
Jim D
SE Texas