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Tim answers a question I’ve always had about these Echo Trigger systems.  What happens if you fire one shot, and don’t want to fire the second shot on trigger release?  Good demonstration.

American Rifleman.

He’s in the Weaver stance because it is the most natural and logical way to shoot a handgun when the one-hand stuff is not mandatory. Shooters just fall into this position when they are allowed to use the other arm and hand, rather than stick it in a left side pocket or in the waistband.

As far as requiring a one-hand grip, it’s a cultural matter. I have long believed that using a single hand is an outgrowth of Civil War tactics, where the repeating revolver was a decisive weapon but couldn’t be helped by a left hand. That hand was working the reins of a horse.

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Jack Weaver, a Los Angeles County deputy sheriff, started drawing his S&W revolver, raising it to eye level and shooting with two hands. Almost immediately, he started beating the daylights out of just about everybody else. They all started using it, and the rest is history.

Because it was so successful and so identified with the first guy to use it in these first competitions, the technique was acclaimed as the “Weaver Stance.” It was the evolved doctrine when Cooper opened the first combat shooting school at Gunsite Ranch in the late ’70s. Hundreds of thousands of civilian, military and police handgunners have been trained in the technique.

I know some folks love it, but I don’t find anything at all natural about it.  I use the Isosceles Stance.  Still, the takeaway is to use whatever feels comfortable and natural to you.

Good Lord!

A communist revolution is well underway, and the DHS is spending resources on this.

At about 11 minutes into the video, he explains the importance that higher capacity magazines has taken on for him.

There are other test setups that are not nearly as good or consistent, but I think he does a fairly good job of the testing.  Frankly, the rounds performed about as expected, and also virtually the same.

In the bush, I’ll stick with .45 ACP or .450 SMC.  In big bear country, I suspect most of them are committed to something larger and faster like the .454 Casull or .44 Magnum.  I’ll have to say that while I’ve heard that 10mm is becoming a popular round in big bear country, I don’t think it’s going to do what it is purported to do.

Mr. Guns ‘n Gear reviews the new Strealight models.  For reference, 1 Candela emitted over a 4π solid angle = 12.566 lumens.  Lumens is the total amount of light emitted.  Candela is the light sent in a direction of a particular solid angle, so he’s referring to the tightness of the light pattern.

The NFAC had an ND.

The rally was supposed to start at noon.  But then someone got shot accidentally.

So the cops were called in to help.

Appears a shots were fired #NFAC .. maybe accidental? https://t.co/eaPEPU43tB

— Simulation Warlord🇺🇸 (@zerosum24) July 25, 2020

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha …

Well, I guess that’s exactly what happened in Richmond when tens of thousands of gun rights folks shows up with ARs and pistols.  They all had NDs.

Oh … wait.

UPDATE:

” … we had a little accident, it happens.”

No, it wasn’t a little accident, and it doesn’t just happen.

Ammoland has a review up of five different types of prismatic optics.

I don’t know anything about prismatic optics or how they compare / contrast with LPVO or HPVO.  It would be nice if readers weigh in who have them, or not.

Ammoland.

For example, consider a rifle chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor, the ammunition loaded with a 140-grain Hornady ELD Match bullet. Muzzle velocity is 2,710 feet per second, and the rifle is set with a 100-yard zero.

At the same altitudes, but at very different barometric pressures, the bullet drop between these two scenarios is significantly different. For an extreme example, Ballistic Pro Shooter Logan Brown notes that at a high barometric pressure of 30.00 versus an extremely low pressure of 25.00, the difference in the above bullet’s trajectory at 1,000 yards can be nearly 30-inches. That’s huge!

Best advice: Logan says to update your Atmospheric Conditions on Ballistic as you move from place to place, and as weather fronts move in and out. Ballistic will automatically recalibrate your projectile’s trajectory based on the atmospheric inputs and changes to those inputs, placing you on target no matter the conditions.

He doesn’t give units, but he means 30″ Hg (to be precise, 29.92″ Hg).  And I’ve seen lower than 25″ at the top of Mt. Mitchell before, plenty of times (in the 22″ – 24″ range).

I’ve never loaded this app, but it makes sense to become familiar with it if you’re going to shoot during conditions not similar to where you zeroed your rifle.

Ridiculous news.

Bottoms explained that the shooting violence is “happening across the country” and is a combination of a “lack of access to healthcare,” unemployment, coronavirus and injustices seen across the country. She then added that Georgia is an “open carry state,” which allows people to “walk down the streets with assault weapons” without being stopped for probable cause.

“What’s happening in Atlanta is what’s happening across the country. There is a combination of things,” Bottoms replied. “There are … these systemic issues, including lack of access to healthcare, including people being unemployed, people are dying of COVID-19. We witness the injustices that have happened in front of our eyes, and it’s boiling over into our streets. It’s happening in Atlanta. It’s happening across the country.”

“The irony of it is that our overall crime rate is down by 18%. But in Georgia, an open carry state, people are allowed to walk down the streets with assault weapons and we don’t have probable cause to stop them,” she continued. “You don’t get to pick and choose which demographic you get to stop and question as to why they are walking in our streets with open weapons. It is an issue in Atlanta. It’s an issue in other cities across this nation, and it is one that we take very seriously.

Shut up, she explained.

So no I won’t shut up.  And I’ll explain a few things.  Braselton, Ga., has a violent crime rate of 0.09 per year per 1000 residents.  And yet open carry is legal in Braselton just like it is in Atlanta.

The Atlanta crime rate, on the other hand, is 7.69 per 1000.  So now that I’ve explained this, I’ll turn it back over to idiot mayor Bottoms.

Take it away.  Now explain how open carry is responsible for crime in Atlanta.  Go ahead.