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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!smoke.brl.mil
- From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Defense/Combat Questions
- Message-ID: <19388@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 13:19:12 GMT
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Nov17.194417.5071@ultb.isc.rit.edu> mxb1517@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.X. Blair) writes:
- #In article <1992Nov17.023122.7776@michael.apple.com> ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
- ##What we were shown was rather simple. Hold the flashlight at
- ##arms length. Most bad guys will shoot at the light, and be off
- ##by one arms length from your vitals... You shoot at their muzzle flash...
- # That is, as long as the ambient light doesn't light up enough of you
- #in the process.
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- I agree that it's important to identify the target but it's even more
- urgent to survive the encounter. I hear that it didn't take criminals
- long to figure out how far away from the light to shoot to have a good
- chance of hitting the light wielder. Also, shooting at muzzle flash
- may not be a good plan; if the opponent is not a total klutz he should
- be either behind cover or on the move. I don't think there is a good
- way to conduct shootouts in pitch darkness unless you have a helicopter
- light platform assisting..
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