txinvestigator wrote:Impossible to say. When thinking about your scenario, I might imagine that there is enough of the BG exopsed for me to shoot, but someone else might only imagine a sliver of BG skin visible.AFJailor wrote:that is true, but its totally hypothetically and im just trying to see how many people trust there shooting abilities in a situation like that.
In another life, we were taught that if your partner walked out of a stop-n-rob with a BG's arm around his neck and a pistol screwed into his ear, you treated your partner as a dead man. You don't give up your gun, because the presumption is that even more people would die. You and your partner should have a plan as to how he would move to try to give you a better shot and try to deflect the gun, but that was some very dicey stuff!
As txi said, it's not possible to say what is the "correct" response without being there. I vividly recall a drill that Clint Smith ran during my Precision Rifle course at Thunder Ranch. After getting the dope on our guns at 300 yds, he told us it was time for a test of our decision making abilities. Not our shooting skills mind you, our decision making skills. “If you’re happy with your shooting, then put 5 rds into the head of the IDPA target, but if you miss even one, you just killed your wife, son or daughter. No excuses; you messed up and killed someone you love and in our book, you just failed the ultimate test.� We had a line of 24 students looking at each other, all knowing he was serious and this wasn’t a joke. The wind was blowing, we were all hot by then (even in October) and it was a gut-check time, even though no one was going to really die. I don’t want to be in that position for real.
Chas.
