What's your worst shooting-related nightmare?

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Kframe - excelent examples of following your instinct! Your using your internal "radar" and its keeping you out of trouble.
Your first instinct is usually the right one.
Listen to it and you will be around long enough to think what if's.

I had the same things happen to me... My biggest one was wether or not to put on my vest. It was a hot day and I was reluctant. I hadnt worn it all day. After I ate some grub - the thought hit me to put it on. Well, my safety monitor side won, and I put it on. 20 minutes later it stopped a bullet from hitting me in the heart. Didnt stop the broken sturnum - but hey... I am still around pissing people off!
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Recurring nightmare?
Real simple, I'm somewhere, anywhere away from home, a situation suddenly occurs and I reach for my CCW. And it's not there... :eek:

That's not just a nightmare, that's a disaster...

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Very strange, I have had the heavy trigger dream many times and I have met anyone else who had it until now. In fact I've never told anyone about it. I just thought it was me but I guess I was wrong. I wonder what this stems from. Interesting.

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I attended a Caliber Press Street Survival Seminar a while back, and they said that there were three recurring nightmares:

1) The Hundred Pound Triggerpull. (Unable to pull the trigger on your sidearm)

2) Bad Bullets. (Bullets either roll out of the end of the barrel or bounce off the bad guy.)

3) Slaying Innocents. (Bullet misses the critter and wipes out your family/busload of nuns/Vienna Boys Choir)

LawDog
 
I've had the usual impossible trigger pull/ineffective bullet ones. But the worst is when I have to take a shot, and the weapon falls apart. Usually, the slide halfway flies off and is bobbing around on the recoil spring (which somehow is attached to the frame). On one occassion, I can recall saying "if this is a dream, you'd damned well better work." Miraculously, the weapon came back together and I could perform the indicated response.
 
I don't know how many times I've had the Hundred Pound Trigger dream, and it sucks, definitely.

My worst nightmares involve one-on-one extreme violence, but never with guns, just barehanded. Hmmmmm.

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My worst nightmare? Getting stopped for a minor traffic violation, and when the inexperienced officer sees a concealed weapon he starts shooting instead of asking to see a CCW permit.



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most common for me is trigger too heavy or unable to pull it. some i remember are:

I'm chasing after some BG armed with my beretta 92FS (all mine have this gun in it for some reason or another) and whenever i can get a clear shot he turns a corner or something. then the hallway gets full of people and i can't shoot him. finally i try to shoot and the gun won't fire. then for some reason the gun turns blue (don't ask i have no idea) and i'm on some sort of stage being shot at by tons of BGs. i try to cock the hammer and the trigger just falls out.

this one for some reason involves a stainless 92FS. i'm in a fancy room in some sort of office building struggling with some guy. my gun gets knocked out of my hand and flys across the room. i grab the gun and he tackels me and i get on to, put the gun right up to his head and can't pull the trigger. i struggle with it for some time using all my force and it won't budge.

I'm in a basement checking all the corners for some BG and i open a door and there he is walking at me. he's huge. he's tall and has huge muscles. i point my 92 at him and my shirt is over my hands and is in the way. i try to fix it and he is about 10 feet away just walking at me. he gets to about 2 feet and i still can't shoot him.

some of mine remind me of certain scenes from the X files. they are shooting at this huge guy and empty their mags and he keeps comming. another time thier shooting at some dead guy that keeps walking at them. i don't have many dreams i remember but the ones i do are really f*** weird.
 
What is it with the "heavy trigger" dream? I've had those so often, in different scenarios, that I started to wonder. Now, hearing so many others describe the same basic dream, I wonder what psychology is behind it.

I've had many a dream about an amorous moment with Sophia Loren, but wake before the "moment of truth." Related somehow to the trigger dream? Who knows.

Dick
 
My literal nightmare which I've had several times is, I'm being shot at by a hoodlum bent on killing me, so I'm fighting for my life, and luckily, I quickly pull my Glock and point it - the problem is there is something wrong with the trigger mechansism and it won't fire, because the trigger is stuck no matter how hard I pull. Then sometimes, I'll hear a "sproingg" sound and feel the trigger break, but no "boom", like a light primer strike I suppose. I'll rack the slide, but get the same thing when I pull the trigger again. Usually at this point I'm hit by the BG and wake up.
 
Monkeyleg- You're right on. The fear behind the performance anxiety and weapon failure dreams is much less complex than we'd like to believe. There's absolutely nothing "wimpy" about these anxieties. They're perfectly natural, as evidenced by the number of extremely similar anecdotes.
 
Heavy trigger, unstoppable foe and having to do it again.

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Heavy trigger-been there, unload my mag and miss with every shot-done that, get shot 10 plus times...wake up, sit on the toilet and have a smoke. At least three times a year. I hate it!
 
I've never had the heavy trigger dream, but here's my top two.

1. I pull my IWB piece, a Kahr K40 Elite, and it is in pieces, with extra springs and parts hanging off. The bad guy laughs, dream over.

2. I sometimes have what are called waking nightmares, where my eyes are open but my brain is still asleep. (This condition has a medical term but it escapes me)In the worst of these episodes, a man is hurting my wife and all I can do is watch from flat on my back, unable to move or even speak. I understand this happens during the waking process, and occurs because the brain is still asleep, but feeds on information from the eyes. Extremely unsettling...Any psychologists out there?
 
Metaphorical nightmare: Needing a gun and not having one.

Actual nightmare: Being in a house (for a justifiable but undefined reason) at night in mostly dark (some light coming in window), when the owner (terrified of an intruder) does a house sweep, discovers me, sees I'm armed, doesn't know that it's ok for me to be there, and shoots me dead. Dream only happened once.

(Footnote: you don't die when killed in a dream. You awake, bolt upright, up wondering what's next, in shock from the utter lack of an answer.)
 
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