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Originally Posted by brit
Everyone seems to think this contest, if you would, between a rifleman, and a pistoleer? One on one!
Yes, that's the premise given the title of the thread:
How can a handgun compete with a man armed with a rifle?
You can come up with an infinite amount of situations in which someone with a pistol or a stick or a rock or no weapon at all triumphs over a rifleman.
They all pretty much come down to hide, then he doesn't see you until you can pop out at a close enough range for your available weapon to be effective.
What's your point?
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My Point? How likely is it, with all of the points, back and forth, that in some area of a Town, or City, this one lonely Rifleman, is paired off, against this single pistol armed person, give me a break.
In every incident, that has happened, the rifle-armed terrorist, or nut case (which most of them are, nuts!) the first clue? BANG/BANG!
If you are the person in the sights of that Rifle, you are most probably, done like dinner.
If that is not the case, and a competent pistol shot, is in the area, with an accurate pistol (Glock 19, with a 4lb trigger, same pistol that has been shot at some distance, for instance) there could be a bullet, aimed at a man sized target, with a rifle, at some extended range, that hits said rifleman, in the throat?
For instance, with Dennis Wxxxxx a good friend (still). Was the RO in an IPSC match, in Ontario. Canada. At this time, we were to a man, armed with very accurate Colt .45s. My pistol was a made in 1913 accurized by Al Dinon, Colt 45, reblued, no idea how it came into Ontario, I bought it from a friend.
The trigger was the best trigger I had ever touched.
One of the stages was a little accuracy portion, 5 rounds total (if you hit the steel head plate first shot) this 6" plate was on a stand, at about 30m?
You started facing the RO, looking at the back of the range, hands at shoulder height. At the beep of the timer, you turned around, and engaged the plate first, when (and IF!) you hit the plate, 4 rounds were fired at an IPSC cardboard target, at 5m.
As soon as I saw the sights, the pistol fired! In fact, it just went off! Dennis said! "that was an AD!"
Yes, it was, but it cleaned the plate right off the stand!
The next 4 shots were in a group, center of the A zone. (at 5m?)
These things happen when you have been shooting for 62 years, more than once, I might add.
The only way this could happen with an active shooter with a Rifle, engaged by a CCW armed Pistol carrier? There would have to be a CCW person there!
Which up to this time, there has not been, here in the USA. Safe Zone's?
A Paster in South Africa once chased several terrorists, armed with AKs, out of his Church. Firing his Chiefs Special, from the pulpit! They never fired a shot, just turned tail, and ran.