About Carrying A Gun, Again

[Shotgun693]

Didn't mean to be rude and everyone is entitled to his opinion.
Better to never be in a gunfight than to survive one.
But never mistake shooting at a target as proving anything about being in a fight.
To simulate a gunfight; Go where the lighting is nearly pitch black, the temp needs to be 100+ or freezing, wet yourself down with a garden hose, eat a box of laxative, turn a stereo up to where you can't hear anything. Now when your stomach starts to roll over try shooting a target turned sideways and moving. It won't be 100% real but you'll have a rough idea of what it's like.

 

[johnbt]

"Go where the lighting is nearly pitch black, the temp needs to be 100+ or freezing, wet yourself down with a garden hose, eat a box of laxative, turn a stereo up to where you can't hear anything."

Jeez, what a load of misery. I'd probably shoot myself to escape the pain. Come to think of it though, substituting an outboard for the stereo, it sounds a lot like duck season on the Chesapeake.

 

[peacefulgary]

To simulate a gunfight; Go where the lighting is nearly pitch black, the temp needs to be 100+ or freezing, wet yourself down with a garden hose, eat a box of laxative, turn a stereo up to where you can't hear anything. Now when your stomach starts to roll over try shooting a target turned sideways and moving. It won't be 100% real but you'll have a rough idea of what it's like.

I will not question your own experience, but I have been in a firefight myself and it wasn't anything like what you describe.

I'm not "chest thumping"....all I'm saying is that I doubt that most folks in firefights felt as you did, and so I also doubt the usefulness of that particular post.

 

[Shotgun693]

It's the stress, the tunnel vision, the lost of motor skills, the what the Hell am I doing here. Maybe the fact that I volunteered for every gunfight I was in makes a difference.