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Guy B. Meredith

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I spent this last few days visiting friends and relatives in SoCal. I had sworn never to return to that black pit, but a number of very special people mixed to make it worth while. While down there I visited the Orange County Sheriff's range in Orange where I had done my Hunter Safety course 45 years ago. Needless to say the place has changed considerably.

New shooters are required to have the Range Officer inspect their firearms. When he inspected my 686+ his comment was something along the line of "this is a girls' gun". Seems everyone there shoots autos. My return was "it fires every time you pull the trigger". When he saw the PC 627 V-comp he counted twice and looked puzzled. I told him he should get current on modern revolvers and one of his companions mentioned what Jerry Miculek does with the 627.

ANYWAY, I would like to report that this shooter of very modest ability (26% of Jerry's score in the IRC) did better at 25 yards than at least one local LEO did at 5 yards and better in general, revolver vs auto!!! That ought to give those bottom feeders something to think about. Jerry would have cleaned house on them.

Grumble, grumble, grumble...
 
As a volunteer range officer in training and a long long ass time shooter at ranges....I would have told him to very politely to "edited at the request of myself"! His job is to assure the safe operation of the range, people and weapons...not give his opinion.
Bottom feeder is about right.....good luck
Shoot well
 
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Proper drill for days like that is.....
Act stupid and/or senile
And clean their clocks and wallets.:D

Sam:..... some things come easy, just often not good things
 
You and I seem to be reading from the same book, C.R.Sam.

To be quite fair, I failed to convey that all comments and repartees were traded with smiles as the gentlemen were very good natured. The smiles became more shared and genuine after discussing the 627 facts of life. Just needed some education and confirmation that revolver shooters are part of the fraternity.

To any OC LEOs on the forum, I want to say I enjoyed using the facility and the people I dealt with. Even if a few are a little biased and backwards. ;)

Taking in a light vein my turn to be "superior", the thought did cross my mind that I might have a reason to be concerned if the shooters I saw represent LEOs in Orange County (which I doubt (?) ) and maybe I should do my own shooting in any crunch situations there.

I was glad I didn't end up looking like a bozo after that point, being the sole revolver proponent on site, not a particularly good shooter and very tired and blurry eyed from visiting and lack of sleep. Did manage to do some serious damage to the black areas of the targets at ranges from 7 to 25 yards, weak hand (and eye), strong hand and freestyle. The only person with better groups was shooting a rifle at 15 to 20 yards.
 
Gentlemen,
I apologize for my comments and temper. As usual, I had a spell where my tongue was faster than my reasoning. Ill give myself a period of 1 week with no shooting :( as my absolution.
Shoot well
 
Eric,

No worries. My presentation of the situation was very ambiguous and a slight variation might well have called for your succinct comments. Everyone that knows me on this side of the keyboard knows I have a sense of humor and presentation that leaves people unsure of my intent.

Guy
 
For point of reference, as a former LEO and firearms instructor I can assure you the vast majority of handgun "enthusiasts" can out shoot the majority of cops any day of the week on any range. The majority of cops are not well trained and can't shoot all that well. There are exceptions, but they are just that - exceptions!
 
Dave,

What are you saying!? Are you telling me I shouldn't expect any Nash Bridges style take out of the Bad Guy standing behind the no-shoot hostage? Why we do it all the time at the range... :eek:
 
"But one cannot do "spraying and praying " with a sixgun..."

Well, then... how about with an eightgun? :p :D
 
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