Ryder
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A couple times now I've seen this guy training WWII soldiers how to shoot the 1911 while blindfolded on the history channel.
He is standing square to the target and shooting from the hip but he is holding his weak hand up in the air like a person taking an oath for the witness stand. That looks extremely odd to me. I've been trying to figure out if there was a purpose for that or not. It's certainly not a position I've ever used to shoot a pistol.
For a while I thought he was trying to catch his balance like a tightrope walker but recently I've come to think that he is giving the enemy something to shoot at. In the dark a palm could be mistaken for a face upon which the enemy would center it's shot. This strikes me as a darn good strategy if that's the case.
Anyone know for sure or have an alternate theory? They show the soldiers practicing the technique a bit later on but they aren't holding their hand up like that.
He is standing square to the target and shooting from the hip but he is holding his weak hand up in the air like a person taking an oath for the witness stand. That looks extremely odd to me. I've been trying to figure out if there was a purpose for that or not. It's certainly not a position I've ever used to shoot a pistol.
For a while I thought he was trying to catch his balance like a tightrope walker but recently I've come to think that he is giving the enemy something to shoot at. In the dark a palm could be mistaken for a face upon which the enemy would center it's shot. This strikes me as a darn good strategy if that's the case.
Anyone know for sure or have an alternate theory? They show the soldiers practicing the technique a bit later on but they aren't holding their hand up like that.