T.V. dry fire practice

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jthuang:
Jeff Cooper has mentioned practicing the "snap shot" while watching TV.

Anyone know how well an electron gun acts as a bullet backstop? :)

Justin[/quote]

Apparently it can work very well.

I was over at an older fella's place helping him with his computer. He dragged out his old service .45 to show me and handed it to me without checking it.

I dropped the mag (7 rounds) and checked the chamber.

Empty. (Obviously he was in habit of storing it with loaded mag but none chambered.

I looked it over, gave it back to him with slide locked back and magazine separate.

We chatted some more and I sat back down to his computer. Heard the slide go forward (paid no attention to the character of the sound tho...) and figured next sound I would hear was magazine being inserted clicking into place behind me.

WRONGO!


BLAM!

Turned around he was standing there with astonished look on face, smoke curling from muzzle...And 27" TV was suddenly silent and dark. 4"-5" ragged hole in glass and no "exit wound" on rear of set.

His next statement after we realized the round did not penetrate a wall and go off to potentially injure someone was,

"You know, I've always wanted to do that".

The .45 round was still somewhere in that TV.


Bruce Foreman

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"Accidentally" shooting your t.v. should be a very strong indication that you need to take a gun safety class, or re-take it as the case may be. If you ever want to pull the trigger but don't want to here a "bang" you obviously should be sure there isn't going to be one, that means NO rounds in the chamber OR the magazine, (even better, if you can fire w/out mag in gun). But this is like saying, don't put the car in gear if you want to rev the engine and not go anywhere.
 
As a child, I remember my first TV set that
the family purchased.

I was sitting watching Hop-along Cassidy.
I was wearing my Colt SAA cap guns in a two
gun holster set.

At one point, the bad guy said they were going to ambush Hoppy.

I leaped up and yelled: You won't get him!

Obviously, knowing the guns were toys, I drew one and pitched it at the screen. My mother
was less than pleased.
 
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