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Member Section => Defense and Tactics => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on May 12, 2014, 03:50:57 PM
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Good article from Sheriff Jim Wilson on carry consistency (concerning gun placement):
Where’s The Gun?
http://www.shootingillustrated.com/index.php/31565/wheres-the-gun/
FTA:
My friend Bill was the elected sheriff of a rural county along the Rio Grande, in southwest Texas. He usually wore a cartridge belt and a Smith & Wesson .357 Mag. on his right hip. On the particular day that he was asked to check out a stranger who was camped in a rancher’s pasture, Bill must not have been expecting trouble. Instead of his gunbelt, he just picked up a small semi-automatic and stuck it in his waistband, crossdraw-style.
As Bill approached, the stranger spun to face him and started blazing away with a .38 Spl. revolver. Bill was hit in the chest and the thigh. And he went to the ground clawing at his right hip for the gun that wasn’t there.
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More at link
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Currently my right hip
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Always in the same place.
ALWAYS.
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Same place....
Don't wear clothes that would require me to carry anyplace else...but then, I don't get out much :D
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Always in the same place.
ALWAYS.
Yep.
The only time mine isn't on my right hip.....it is on my night stand...and always oriented in the same way on the night stand, so if I need it in the night, I can find it in the dark (same with my flashlight and knife....and everything else, for that matter).
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Yep.
The only time mine isn't on my right hip.....it is on my night stand...and always oriented in the same way on the night stand, so if I need it in the night, I can find it in the dark (same with my flashlight and knife....and everything else, for that matter).
Ayuh ! ;D
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I was pleased to see that the author recognized that for some of us, carrying the same gun in the same place just isn't practical. That said, he makes a very good point. Under stress the best we can hope for is to live up to our training. Years ago, when I taught CPR, I spent more time on the initial reaction and assessment of the victim than anything else. Why? Simple, if I could drill that reaction into my students, chances are that's how they would react in a real medical emergency - and if they did the assessment, chances are they will actually do what is needed. Same principle applies here.