Mavracer wrote:
Hornet,
Look, you may now want to say training is important,and I agree.yes I have had to draw my gun,luckily that was enough,but my draw and sight picture happened just like it had 10,000 times before.
you may have not ment to but your first post is clear.you said your friend with all the training only connected 1 for 6,so your worried that in the heat of battle your motor skills will not be good enough so you feel the need to carry a high cap gun . . .
Everything goes out the window when the BG is shooting at you.
Kyle was in our gun club, and a very, very good pistol shot (unlike many LEOs). He was also on an elite team of deputy sheriffs in our county that patrolled the interstate outside of town for drug runners and such. Friendly, caring . . . and confident.
His big mistake was probably trusting his skills on his full size Glock .40S&W too much, for when this event happened, he passed at grabbing the 12 guage in the front of his crusier.
Kyle was shot ten times, hit in both arms and legs, shot in the butt . . . he took a couple of others in his chest, with one getting inside his body armor. As bullets lance his body, over and over, he's painful screams are heard via his uniform-mounted camera.
Yep . . . our fine motor skill control goes out the window. He never gave up and kept fighting, somehow even lifting his handgun to fire at his attacker as the attacker ran back to his truck for more ammo for his M1.
How he kept in the fight, with legs and arms shot is beyond me. Would a BUG have helped. After being shot some, he's heard to say, "Shoot, shoot, gun down!" Maybe so, for his Glock is now of no use to him. It's probably hard to reload when you are shot in the arms and your main gun is down.
Maybe a BUG would have saved his life at that point. Unfortunately, the killer reloaded and returned, attacking military style. Finally, and just still barely in camera, the killer can be seen carefully aiming for his final "killing" shot to Kyle's head, as he shouts "Die Mother_____." Mercifully, Kyle is off camera.
Kyle was a great pistol shot, but he lost this fight, and left behind a young wife, an 18 month old child, and had learned that day that they were expecting their second.
Kyle has been gone almost ten years now. He was just 22 years old. Yep, this outstanding handgunner discovered too late how things change when someone is intent on killing you.
WATCH THIS VIDEO, if you have the stomach. Thank God that Kyle is out of view of his cruiser's dash mounted camera. This video is now used to train LEOs across the country and has surely saved some lives of some LEOs. I'm sure Kyle would have been pleased that it has. WARNING: THIS VIDEO CAN BE VERY DISTURBING TO MANY PEOPLE, so most should avoid watching it. However, this video may save the lives of others in so doing. But please, use discression.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1364316137
The murderer is on death row . . . a Vietnam veteran who just snapped.
Kyle managed to gut shoot his killer once with his .40S&W . . . to no serious effect.
There's no such thing as too many guns or ammo. Kyle had his Glock 22 and three more high cap. magazines. It still wasn't enough for a crazed vet with an M1 carbine!
IMHO, carrying a BUG ain't zackly a bad idea. Equally as important, we don't need to ever get so confident of our handgun skills to where we feel that we can handle any situation as if it were a benign range competiton.
Food for thought.