Anybody willing to let someone shoot at them?

[Oatka]

I think it was the History Channel that showed some 1930-40 footage of a Marine shooting a 30 ca. air-cooled machine gun. He was firing short bursts, taking out the bullseye. The thing was, he was shooting at a target held by another Marine who was walking towards him from about 20 yards to just a few feet away.

Thought that was a cool-not-to-be-seen-today routine until I read the above on the hostage scenarios.

OTOH, we've all seen people who want to be shot at (they think). I'm referring to those posturing imbeciles who are going over to Iraq to act as human shields for Saddam under the delusion that "Bush won't shoot at Westerners". Like one guy said, "Gee, we get two-for-one in that war."

 

[WyldOne]

MLH:
Are you crazy? That's why I carry a CCW because I DON'T want anyone shooting at me!

LOL completely took the words right off my keyboard!

(edit: 'cept I don't exactly "carry a CCW"....but that is why I got into this whole thing, anyway)

 

[Mike Irwin]

Sure.

You can shoot at me.

You get a .45 ACP, and have to stand 300 meters from me.

I, on the other hand, get my .243 groundhog gun with the 6.5x18 Leupold scope.

Hell, I'll even be big about it and give you the first 10 shots.

 

[King]

I'll pass also...especially at 230 yards. These guys must have had a lot of confidence in the shooter. I'm betting that the trigger man practiced that shot at that location quite a few times before the gent took a seat (the old behind the scenes practive session).

Still, no way........

:eek

 

[4v50 Gary]

Actually, this stunt is nothing new and during the American Revolution, the Shain brothers use to demonstrate their prowess and trust in each other's marksmanship with the rifle by one bro. holding a marked shingle between his legs and the other brother shooting the mark (over 100 yards distance). Likewise, during the Napoleonic era, one British officer and an enlisted man (forgot their names) performed the same stunt at over 100 yards. However, they would hold the target out to the side with both arms. Annie Oakley use to do it too. More recently (back in the '50s or so), t a Southern CA police department (could have been San Diego) pistol team use to shoot cigarettes out of each other's mouth. They used 38 special revolvers. They showed us this tape at a training class last year and we were all aghast.

BTW, the question should be: "Would anyone let someone shoot towards you?"

 

[GD]

shot at

I have gone dove hunting with a bunch of guys. We position ourselves about 100 yards apart. When the shooting gets intense it is not unusual to start getting hit with birdshot. It is somewhat painful but in some sense exhilerating - Surviving getting shot repeatedly! It never breaks the skin.

 

[Pappy John]

There's only one friend I would trust to do this. Seen him take groundhogs at 400+ yards more than once. But he has more common sense that to be involved with a shot like that. And so do I.

 

[Owen]

At the Crucible, chances are the shooter was Jim Owens, a fairly legendary sniper.

Owen

 

[cardboardkiller]

I'll trade shots with someone, 10 yards any weapon you want, I'll take my 458 Win Mag and the first shot.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

I think a number of y'all misunderstood the circumstances. The people seated near the targets were NOT being shot at, but the target was. The people near the target were simply that, near the target (but not the target).

Is there a difference? Sure. The shooter isn't trying to hit you.

Is this stupid? Sure. The drill by itself isn't too bad so long as everything goes as planned. What makes it bad or most risky is that things often don't go as planned. Once somebody finally gets shot doing this, it will be clear to everyone around the event as just how stupid it was.

 

[Thumper]

Hey, Wyldone made it over here!

They aired that piece awhile back, IIRC. I remember Rosenthal being pretty quick with his tap-rack-bang when his G-lock failed.

 

[answerguy]

I would think everyone here has seen the footage of an exec from a manufacturer of bullet proof vests taking a round in the gut. There was one time when he shot himself and IIRC another time when he let someone else do the shooting. There may have also been a reporter testing one of the vests also.

 

[rock jock]

Oh sure. When I was a kid my father used to stand me next to a tree with an apple on my head and......., oh, you've probably heard this story before.

 

[Don Gwinn]

In one of the old Robin Hood movies, Howard Hill did the archery and it was all real. He shot the stuntmen 45 times! They wore 12" x 14" foam pads backed by steel plates the same size, and he had to hit that target 45 times from all angles and distances. Brave men with a great deal of trust.

 

[Don Gwinn]

Other than the huge berm of earth and wood between you, that drill and pulling targets at a highpower match isn't all that different.

Yeah, other than that one teensy little detail . . . .

 

[El Rojo]

Don why were you the only one to figure out that minor detail missing?

In all honesty, I don't see how a guy laying prone with a bipod and a nice rifle can't hit a 6" cirlce all day long at 230 yards. You would pretty much have to have a heart attack and jerk the trigger like never before in order to get that bullet to go the other direction.

Now that I think about it, when we call coyotes we sometimes have to shoot in the general direction of each other. The guy with the rifle is usually up the hill about 50 to 75 yards behind the shotgunner that is lying down or sitting in a juniper bush. We never shoot if the coyote is directly over the shotgunner, but the bullets head that general direction.