What I'd Like To See on Down Range

[DonWorsham]

What I'd like to see on Down Range...

...self defense for women - how to carry, how to train, how to get a mindset

...history of firearms by manufacturer

...from target to defense to hunting (one gun three purposes)

...proper gun maintenance - rifle, pistol, revolver what products work which ones don't

...a behind the scene look at Shooting Gallery and Cowboys from concept to showtime

...interviews,interviews, interviews

...ballistics - charts, charts and more charts (ie, is the .357 that much more than .38?)

...shoot things (aka the box of truth)

[Michael Bane]

You know, Don, I once went out to a range next to a junkyard in Florida and spent a day shooting windshields and car doors...it was one of the more instructive shooting sessions I've ever gone through! I still carry a magazine full of the 9mm ammo that did the best job of punching windshields and doors as my second mag for the P225 (if you must know, and I suspect you already do, it was Israeli black-tip carbine ammo...the stuff is the 9-mil equivalent of a carbide drill bit...I bought a case of it beofere they stopped importing it...but I absolutely positively know it'll punch a windshield at virtually any angle).

Definitely worth doing again, because shooting a windshield wasn't as simple as I thought it would be.

Good ideals one and all, except for the one about maintenance...you mean you have to clean them? I thought you just shot them until they stopped working and then asked the company to send you another one...

Also, any behind-the-scenes at SG, COWBOYS or the SHOW THAT COMES AFTER SG & COWBOYS involves far too many adult beverages to be revealed to the public...instead, I refere you to Sun Tzu's comments on the Sage General and chaos...

Michael B

[DonWorsham]

...instead, I refere you to Sun Tzu's comments on the Sage General and chaos...
Michael B

Chaos and order are two aspects of the same thing. Together they constitute the totality of our experience, the good and bad, the confusion and clarity-how it is all interconnected and constantly shifting. From the smaller perspective we experience these as opposed. But in order to take whole, the sage commander must work with this totality. He resides in the fundamental orderliness of the chaos, and thus for him:

The fight is chaotic yet one is not subject to chaos.

[Pathfinder]

To answer Michael's question:

- CCW stuff: auto/wheelgun pros and cons, holsters, gotchas in the laws, what the well-dressed CCW should have (backup ammo, knives, etc.)
- Reloading basics, tips and tricks, variations, etc.
- self/home defense topics, comparisons of specific weapons and rounds
- full shoot and teardown reviews of guns before you send them to me, er, I win them

[Michael Bane]

Didja ever think that if you carried all the stuff the magazines told you that "every" CCW owner "must" carry, you'd need a burro?


I'm thinking of having Walt Rauch out to talk about his civilian "number so fshots fired in an encounter" research...

Michael B

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[Pathfinder]

Exactly why I asked - what's real, what's unrealistic.

BTW, see the answer to the question in your signature in mine?

[Honcho]

Also how about some simple gunsmith idieas we can do at home.

[Combatvet]

I personally would like to see a how to for the basics. How about properly installing scope & rings and getting it boresighted and zeroed.

[ncrguy]

I would like to also see some more knife stuff. The Michael Janich episode of SG was great but left us hungry for more. I second the idea of Walt Rauch's opinion of CCW options. Also a discussion of carry holsters would be nice. Anything to do with Hamilton Bowen would be good as well. Michael you are to be commended for starting a site like this. It will be worth the technical difficulties. Besides, if technology worked as advertised I would not have a job!

[canon6]

I agree  great new site,I am one of the dinosaurs that still carry a wheel gun for self defense and I  would like some more segments on the wheel gun   Doug