bamaranger
New member
student of firearms
I think I see a tendency for the martial artists to surface and view the enthusiast and hobby shooter with a bit of disdain. The old adage of "beware the man with one gun" may well be true, ...........or it may not. Carry more than one "platform" and you are a fashion statement. The hard core, trained up, the gun is just a tool folks, drag out their catch phrases, recite the only way to do things, and look down upon those less informed or having less insight.
Not everyone has the opportunity to attend a shooting school and gain the benefits of force on force training and experience deadly force situations as part of the job. A level of competency with a wide range of firearms, acquired thru personal interest, shooting sports and a bit of training, I think makes for a well rounded shooter and one just as likely to survive an encounter as the "one gun" martial artist types. In fact, my own observations of LEO's in mixed competition is that a lot of them can't shoot near as well as the hobby shooters. If we're going to examine stress and muscle memory sort of things, how do we know that "our" platform will be the one with which we finish and win the fight? Guns break, take rounds and get disabled or have cartridge case head fails. In a prolonged fight (yeah not likely, but so is the likelihood of being in any fight, period) hopefully get replaced with pickups from other officers, maybe even the bad guys, which may or may not be "your" platform.
You better be able to run a Glock, they're common. Same with the 1911 and DA revolvers. So to the AR .....AND....heaven forbid, the AK. And ,there were so many SKS's sold in my area for under $100 bucks, I think everybody in the state must have one. Don't forget all the shotgun types.
Better to be students of the gun, than specialists with a gun.
I think I see a tendency for the martial artists to surface and view the enthusiast and hobby shooter with a bit of disdain. The old adage of "beware the man with one gun" may well be true, ...........or it may not. Carry more than one "platform" and you are a fashion statement. The hard core, trained up, the gun is just a tool folks, drag out their catch phrases, recite the only way to do things, and look down upon those less informed or having less insight.
Not everyone has the opportunity to attend a shooting school and gain the benefits of force on force training and experience deadly force situations as part of the job. A level of competency with a wide range of firearms, acquired thru personal interest, shooting sports and a bit of training, I think makes for a well rounded shooter and one just as likely to survive an encounter as the "one gun" martial artist types. In fact, my own observations of LEO's in mixed competition is that a lot of them can't shoot near as well as the hobby shooters. If we're going to examine stress and muscle memory sort of things, how do we know that "our" platform will be the one with which we finish and win the fight? Guns break, take rounds and get disabled or have cartridge case head fails. In a prolonged fight (yeah not likely, but so is the likelihood of being in any fight, period) hopefully get replaced with pickups from other officers, maybe even the bad guys, which may or may not be "your" platform.
You better be able to run a Glock, they're common. Same with the 1911 and DA revolvers. So to the AR .....AND....heaven forbid, the AK. And ,there were so many SKS's sold in my area for under $100 bucks, I think everybody in the state must have one. Don't forget all the shotgun types.
Better to be students of the gun, than specialists with a gun.