Scanner Match - Due 05/13/06

**Nid** · Posted On: 4/13/2006 3:34pm

New Course.

Take your standard printer paper and fold it in half so it's more like 8x5.5. This is your target. Put it on a bigger target to account for misses.

50 Rounds

@21 Feet - 8 Rounds with your strong hand
@21 Feet - 8 rounds with your weak hand
@21 Feet - 4 Rounds with your stong hand, 4 rounds with your weak hand (same mag; don't reload; don't put the gun down)
- Repeat 1x
@35 Feet 4 rounds strong hand, 4 rounds weak hand (as above)
- Repeat 1x
@50 feet 10 rounds, 2 hands.

**Nid** · Posted On: 4/13/2006 3:43pm

9 misses
Colt Commander XSE (4.25 inch barrell as opposed to standard 5 inch)
http://www.coltsmfg.com/cmci/XSE.asp
230 Grain .45 ACP FMJ (Factory loads, Mr. Mantis)

**Nid** · Posted On: 4/13/2006 11:48pm

To the top

**SFGOON** · Posted On: 4/13/2006 11:52pm

I gotta know, why would you practice shooting with one hand? I can see how it would be sporting, but is there a tactical application, or is this basic pistol archery?

**Nid** · Posted On: 4/13/2006 11:53pm

Flashlight or shield in the other.

One hand, arm, or shoulder is fuqqed up.

**SFGOON** · Posted On: 4/13/2006 11:56pm

Flashlight held out to the side to give the BGs a bad point of aim? I remember learning something like that once.

**Nid** · Posted On: 4/13/2006 11:58pm

...having to open a door with one hand.

Flashlight held out to the side to give the BGs a bad point of aim?

The point is that the other hand is occupied, but that is my preferred way and reason, yes.

...Speaking through a P.A. and holding one's pistol...

As one can probably see and surmise, I would prefer not to shoot the old hostage-taker-with-his-arm-around-a-hostage's-neck shot with my weak hand.

Heh.

**Mr. Mantis** · Posted On: 4/14/2006 10:29am

Originally Posted by SFGOON

I gotta know, why would you practice shooting with one hand? I can see how it would be sporting, but is there a tactical application, or is this basic pistol archery?

"Every time I should have been holding a pistol in my right hand... I thought of you..."

**Don Gwinn** · Posted On: 4/14/2006 12:37pm

1. One hand injured. Weak-side-only is particularly big here, but if you really mean it, you practice one-handed reloading, too.
If you're the kind of guy who has to watch a violent movie to get the idea, see Way of the Gun.

2. Holding or holding back someone else--I go many places with two small children, not that I'm allowed to carry here anyway.

3. Applying pressure to a wound, either on you or someone else.

4. The aforementioned flashlight. As you mention, someone once decided that if you hold a flashlight against your jaw, as the FBI used to advocate, a bad guy who shoots at the light will probably get you. The proposed solution was to hold the light at arms' length. I've never made it work.

**Neildo** · Posted On: 4/14/2006 12:38pm

Originally Posted by Don Gwinn

4. The aforementioned flashlight. As you mention, someone once decided that if you hold a flashlight against your jaw, as the FBI used to advocate, a bad guy who shoots at the light will probably get you. The proposed solution was to hold the light at arms' length. I've never made it work.

I read a book in which someone did this and it worked. I had no idea it was a genuine tactic.

Cool.