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- From: holger@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Holger Reusch (Dipl. Gerhard + Joe))
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Why ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.195301.17915@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 04:16:22 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
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- mtxinu!sybase.sybase.com!thorick@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Thorick Chow) writes:
- #I have a question that maybe someone can answer...
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- #Why is it that many pistol target shooters put their non-shooting
- #hand in their pockets ?
-
- #I have often puzzled over this... While informal Bullseye is
- #a hobby kind of thing for me, I still have an undercurrent of
- #'self-defense' in my practice.. so naturally I wouldn't
- #be caught dead (so to speak) with one hand in my pocket.
-
- #('tradition' is an acceptable reason BTW :-) )
-
- I have a better one: Because it looks so d*mn cool and relaxed. :-)
-
- Earnestly, it relaces the muscles in the non-shooting arm and,
- thereby, reduces the tension of the whole body. Keeps the shoot-
- ing hand more stable.
-
- With defense guns (distinguished by big caliber and/or high capa-
- city) single-handed shooting might make less sense, because
- weight or recoil become a problem.
-
- One time I corked off a cylinderful of .357s in the DC stance
- (that's my informal name for it :-) and quickly found out that it
- was not the right thing to do...
-
- With my friend's .22 pistol, it's an entirely different matter.
-
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- | Holger Reusch |
- | Technical University of Vienna, Austria <-+--- No kangaroos here,
- | Dept. for Real-Time Systems | sorry!
- | holger@vmars.tuwien.ac.at |
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