Wildalaska
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As a young law student, I fell under the spell of this retired old cop (forcibly retired with a few others I may add after some gambler whined about payoffs) who was a drunken, rascist, antisemitic foul mouthed mysoginistic gun freak and gunsmith/private investigator..of course he loved his mom and lived with her, had a black hooker as a girlfriend, investigated cases for some black guys for free ("he's an OK N****r", ) and would call me all hours of the day or night for legal advice ("hey you jewboys are smart F****rs") half drunk most of the time.
I just loved this guy, he was a walking Joe Wambaugh (now Michael Connoly) character...good shot too and tougher than nails. You real old guys (older than me ) remember those old time 1950s and 1960s cops, no Miranda warnings, just the stick .
Anyway among the NUMEROUS lectures i received from him about life, law and guns (which lectures usually followed the consumption of a bottle I paid for) such as how to hotwire cars, how to recover drugs from a "hype" who swallowed them ("ya pop him in the gut with your stick until he pukes it up"), why the .45 auto is the best (yep the old WW2 Stories), why I should shoot left handed ("one of them [insert some ethnic other than white German/Irish/French Canadian] might stab ya or shoot ya in the shoulder, then what do you do"] and how to best interrogate suspects (rolled up newspapers applied to side of head) was his famous "dive to the right" lecture.
His theory (which he insisted was backed up by empirical evidence on the street although he sure didn't use the word empirical ) was this...
That if you are facing an armed "scumbag" with a gun in his right hand, holding it either one handed or two handed, your escape move is to dive or drop low right "cuz the *****ers gonna be all hyped and when he pulls that trigger hes gonna jerk it to his right"...o course when sobriety took over it was time to demonstrate replete with jerking the trigger on snubnosed revolvers.
Now of course, every time I jerk a trigger on an handgun I shoot to the right and actually, I find it impossible to shoot low left physiologically as easy since while holding a gun, its hard to flex inward to shoot left (and yes I know about heeling which I think is a flaw of deliberate not fast shooting)...
So, looking back now, I reckon this lecture has sunk in since in times of conflict, I find myself moving right (ooo bad pun)...
I wish old timers like this guy were still around....
Anybody else hear this before or train that way?
Wildwowstayingoutofl&pmakesmerverboseAlaska
I just loved this guy, he was a walking Joe Wambaugh (now Michael Connoly) character...good shot too and tougher than nails. You real old guys (older than me ) remember those old time 1950s and 1960s cops, no Miranda warnings, just the stick .
Anyway among the NUMEROUS lectures i received from him about life, law and guns (which lectures usually followed the consumption of a bottle I paid for) such as how to hotwire cars, how to recover drugs from a "hype" who swallowed them ("ya pop him in the gut with your stick until he pukes it up"), why the .45 auto is the best (yep the old WW2 Stories), why I should shoot left handed ("one of them [insert some ethnic other than white German/Irish/French Canadian] might stab ya or shoot ya in the shoulder, then what do you do"] and how to best interrogate suspects (rolled up newspapers applied to side of head) was his famous "dive to the right" lecture.
His theory (which he insisted was backed up by empirical evidence on the street although he sure didn't use the word empirical ) was this...
That if you are facing an armed "scumbag" with a gun in his right hand, holding it either one handed or two handed, your escape move is to dive or drop low right "cuz the *****ers gonna be all hyped and when he pulls that trigger hes gonna jerk it to his right"...o course when sobriety took over it was time to demonstrate replete with jerking the trigger on snubnosed revolvers.
Now of course, every time I jerk a trigger on an handgun I shoot to the right and actually, I find it impossible to shoot low left physiologically as easy since while holding a gun, its hard to flex inward to shoot left (and yes I know about heeling which I think is a flaw of deliberate not fast shooting)...
So, looking back now, I reckon this lecture has sunk in since in times of conflict, I find myself moving right (ooo bad pun)...
I wish old timers like this guy were still around....
Anybody else hear this before or train that way?
Wildwowstayingoutofl&pmakesmerverboseAlaska