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- From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Why ?
- Message-ID: <19609@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:25:19 GMT
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- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
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- In article <28549@sybase.sybase.com> mtxinu!sybase.sybase.com!thorick@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Thorick Chow) writes:
- #WHy is it that many pistol target shooters put their non-shooting
- #hand in their pockets ?
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- It seems like a good place to put it. TV technicians working around
- high voltage keep one hand tucked into the belt behind their backs..
-
- I think your real question is, why are they shooting one-handed?
- That must be because the official rules of their particular competition
- require it. Of course for defense shooting one uses both hands by
- preference.
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- [MODERATOR: Another consideration. Folks with a, hmmm, curvaceous
- figure like mine tend to be front heavy. Standing with one's arm
- straight out holding a few pounds of pistol can further throw off
- one's center of gravity. Anything to get my weight off on the other
- side for counterbalance is desirable.... (for precise balancing I
- suppose I should stuff a couple of pizzas in a backpack....)]
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