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- From: petekunz@iiic.ethz.ch (Peter John Kunz)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Why ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.115215.16388@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:57:04 GMT
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- In article <19609@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
- #
- ##WHy is it that many pistol target shooters put their non-shooting
- ##hand in their pockets ?
- #
- #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..
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- hehe
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- #I think your real question is, why are they shooting one-handed?
- #That must be because the official rules of their particular competition
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- exactly
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- #require it. Of course for defense shooting one uses both hands by
- #preference.
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- have you told the army?
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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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- this comes close. not only to balance, but also to put the hand not in use
- somewhere where it will stay put and not moving about all the time, thus
- being able to only worry about balancing the shooting arm
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- cu
- -pete
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