1911 Headbanger
Leave Me Alone!!!
My question is.........
If you don't carry one in the chamber, how will you ready your pistol, if you can't use your other hand or arm? I realize that there are drills that I have done along with many others here that allow you to rack your slide by snagging your sight on your heel, belt, holster, pocket or whatever, in order to rack your slide. But not everyone can do this drill, and hardly anyone will practice it. It takes skill and a cool head. Especially if you have to do it under stress in a bad situation.
How many shootings occur within 5 or 10 feet? Will you already be in physical contact with the badguy. I saw at least 10 or 12 different defensive shootings where the good guy had to push the bad guy back or hold him off, or had to grab the bad guys gun to hold it away from him, WHILE HE WAS DRAWING HIS OWN GUN. I saw two incidents where a person tried to intervene in the scuffle, and a Police Officer had to pull the person back with one hand to get him or her out of the line of fire and draw with the other hand. What if your wife or child is in the line of fire and you have to push them down or move them aside? What about if you are injured or shot in the other arm or hand and partially disabled while you have to draw. There's no guarantee that you won't be shot first, or the situation will be a clean text book movie screen shooting. It may be an escalation of events from a physical altercation that leaves you injured or having to use an arm to hold the bad guy back as you draw. It Happens. If you don't carry a round in the chamber, you may very well find yourself on the obituary list tommorrow, because you couldn't react. Understand, if you have never been in a shooting situation, you will absolutely not believe how fast things can happen, when you need to get your gun out and into action. I suggest any of you who carry without a round chambered either reconsider, or do some very heavy and intense training in racking your slide. And I don't mean a trip to the range every now and then. The IDF or Bodyguard guys in Israel I've seen some of you refering to, are highly trained professionals that continuously practice. In fact many of them border their gun skills on martial arts type training and make it a daily routine and way of life. I doubt there are many people on this site that live and train anywhere near what these guys do..
If you don't carry one in the chamber, how will you ready your pistol, if you can't use your other hand or arm? I realize that there are drills that I have done along with many others here that allow you to rack your slide by snagging your sight on your heel, belt, holster, pocket or whatever, in order to rack your slide. But not everyone can do this drill, and hardly anyone will practice it. It takes skill and a cool head. Especially if you have to do it under stress in a bad situation.
How many shootings occur within 5 or 10 feet? Will you already be in physical contact with the badguy. I saw at least 10 or 12 different defensive shootings where the good guy had to push the bad guy back or hold him off, or had to grab the bad guys gun to hold it away from him, WHILE HE WAS DRAWING HIS OWN GUN. I saw two incidents where a person tried to intervene in the scuffle, and a Police Officer had to pull the person back with one hand to get him or her out of the line of fire and draw with the other hand. What if your wife or child is in the line of fire and you have to push them down or move them aside? What about if you are injured or shot in the other arm or hand and partially disabled while you have to draw. There's no guarantee that you won't be shot first, or the situation will be a clean text book movie screen shooting. It may be an escalation of events from a physical altercation that leaves you injured or having to use an arm to hold the bad guy back as you draw. It Happens. If you don't carry a round in the chamber, you may very well find yourself on the obituary list tommorrow, because you couldn't react. Understand, if you have never been in a shooting situation, you will absolutely not believe how fast things can happen, when you need to get your gun out and into action. I suggest any of you who carry without a round chambered either reconsider, or do some very heavy and intense training in racking your slide. And I don't mean a trip to the range every now and then. The IDF or Bodyguard guys in Israel I've seen some of you refering to, are highly trained professionals that continuously practice. In fact many of them border their gun skills on martial arts type training and make it a daily routine and way of life. I doubt there are many people on this site that live and train anywhere near what these guys do..