Re: Marksmanship

> >On 13-Jul-99 at 11:20, Sean Bayan Schoonmaker (schoon@aimnet.com)
wrote:
> >> >"I know several guys who can shoot tacks
> >> >off of targets at 50m. Hitting a man sized target out to 400m
isn't
> >> >that hard"
> >> >
> >> >Yes, but the tacks rarely, if ever, shoot back -- which makes all
the
> >> >difference in the world.
> >>
> >> Tacks also don't move, nor do they have the annoying habbit of
hiding
from
> >> you ;-)
> >
> >Tacks are easy, I could (back when I was hunting) have done the 50m
tack
> >thing and nobody would have been terribly impressed.  The fact that I
> >was about 50% on a running squirrel at 15-20meters was impressive, if
> >that gives you a shooting indication.  400 meters if they know you
are
> >there would make it extremely difficult to hit anything even if they
> >weren't shooting back.

If you want some other examples just watch those "Worlds's Craziest
Police
Vidoes" or  something like that.  I saw one the other night where a pair
of
cops pulled over a car and the passenger pulled a gun on the cop.  He
had it
pressed against the cop's neck.  For some reason he gets out of the car,
still with the gun on the cop who then precedes to twist out of his grip
and
pull his gun.  The guy takes off running and the cop empties an entire
clip
at him.  The guy escaped.  He was no more than three feet away from the
cop
when the cop started shooting.

Christopher K Smith
03ME Auburn University
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