Do you really trust your shooting skills?

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Yes I do.

If we do not trust our marksmanship to be that accurate under stress, then why are we carrying? When you think of all the self defense scenarios that will entail friendlies downrange, you'd better make sure that you can make the shot, or leave the gun at the house and carry your pepper spray.

If our skills aren't there, we have some work to do. Go train and practice, friends.
 
Marksmanship is a sport, a discipline, a responsibility, and not a game.
 
I noticed him point at the camera man in the second vid too. Just like drugs don't mix well with guns, kids with japanese cars and video cameras and guns don't mix well either!
 
The shooting is straight forward; at the speed he's shooting, getting hits should not be a problem. He does wave the gun around in a very undisciplined fashion, and walks around with it dangling.
At least his trigger finger discipline appears good.
 
I could probably do that too, but why?

Isn't there some rule about "not pointing a gun at anything you don't want to destroy"?

Some people have way too much time on their hands.
 
Yep, a few problems there. Bad possibility of richochet, sweeping the camera man with the muzzle with a loaded weapon, and shooting without eye protection, or ear protection from what it looks like. Also, shooting in the direction of a car loaded with volitile fuel is not good.
 
Heh, yeah the car could blow up and stuff. I've seen it happen in a movie! :what:
Shooting steel plates is perfectly fine, and if he did hit the car the bullets would easily penetrate. It's no more dangerous than shooting beer cans.
Being a cop he probably have shot several times without ear and eye protection. A lot of people choose not to use when shooting outdoors, no big deal.
On the video where there is someone behind the camera he points his gun up with finger outside the trigger guard. It seens safe enough to me. Being safe when handling firearms is different than being paranoid or unreasonable.
It's easy to talk about shooting faster and doing double taps when you're shooting paper. I'd like to see others do it with their cars. ;)
And who said he didn't want to destroy the car? :neener:
 
Actuaally in the first video there is ocviously a guy handholding the camera and the shooter DOES sweep him with the muzzle when he turns around, and also breaks the 180degree rule which most every single range has adopted as a rule they use to throw you off the range now if broken. Plus, he never clears or puts in safe mode his weapon in the whole video. Don;t try to excuse safe gun handling with blowing it off because they are cops....fact is I see more cops in my training make bad safety faux pauxs than even newby shooters. those guys are both unsafe, using unsafe practices on the range and as LEOs ahould be safer. Also, the only safe thing I see either of them do is to not have their finger in the trrigger well wehn not shooting.
 
In both films he shows a lack of responsibility to the viewers. First of all it looks like he's shooting at an open range with no berm behind the car anyone could be walking around in the treeline behind the car and just that fact in itself shows a lack of discipline.Then theres the car itself if he was to hit and just skim the roof of the car where would the round end up and to top it off if he isn't using frangible ammo he stands a chance of being hit himself on reflection.This is sloppy at best!
 
In the first vid the first ballon he shoots has a window behind it. How does he not break the window? That and the lack of a backstop makes me think it's fake or very irresponsible.
 
Yes, I trust my shooting skills. I also trust my good judgment. The vids MAY have shown some of the former . . . I saw none of the latter . . .

"Now I know why they make NERF projectiles."
 
In the first vid the first ballon he shoots has a window behind it.
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At the very start of the video you can clearly see that the front window is all the way down, and the back window is about 60% down, which I suspect is as low as the back window will go. The first balloon is positioned in the front window. He then crouches, so that the trajectory for the first bullet is through the car, and out the driver's window.
 
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