ToddG: "Go ahead and pick up your mags. There's one here..."
Me: "Yeah, that's the empty one. I had to get the full one over here that I threw on the ground during the reload because I guess I didn't like it or something."
Edited to add the following, overheard in the hallway at home after relating the story to Bobbi:
RX: "'Oh, no! Mustn't use that one! It has the bat-shaped hollowpoints! People will figure out my secret identity!'"
Yvonne, is that you?
ReplyDeleteIDPA penalty, five seconds for dropping magazine...
ReplyDeleteEd,
ReplyDeleteIf I'd been shooting IDPA, I'd have been taking mincing little steps so as to not drop the mag and hit the target better. ;)
Beats having the Mag in your hand and the Pistol on the Ground. Not saying that ever happened to me, but I'm glad Cell Phone cameras weren't invented then.
ReplyDeleteAm not laughing,but...
ReplyDeleteI KNEW IT!
ReplyDelete(Okay, where's the accompanying photos in leather?)
I'm in a grumpy mood wading through 50 freshman college government papers, but the picture of you on the range doing the IDPA mince along the shooting line broke me up. Now, back to curdmudgeoning and oppressing my liberal students purging them of socialist thought.
ReplyDelete(I never thought it was worth dying in a gun-fight to keep a magazine from hitting the ground either.)
If you're not prancing, you'd better be pirouhetting. If you're not pirouhetting, you'd better be mincing or somebody's going to cut your tutu off and hang it on a stick. -- From "Leotards and Hot Lead", the story behind the illfated Broadway adaptation of the siege of Stalingrad."
ReplyDeleteJust make sure you pick up that mag and mechanically swivel your head to the left and right to make it look like your situational awareness is perfect.
ReplyDeleteThat's twice in one day I've been spewed, og! I've got a SWAT type friend (former AF F-4 driver and Amer. Airlines Capt but loves to play cop on days off), who has it all down, the "duck walk", the foot-roll forward mince and the perfunctory left/right SA scan after firing. Also the elbow tuck AR posture and of course the various parade drills with the single point sling as you stow your AR and bring your secondary 1911 into engagement. Do it all in Kevlar vest, coal-scuttle helmet and with NVGs to the tune of...Die Horst Wessel or maybe some Wagnerian march.
ReplyDeleteOg,
ReplyDelete"Just make sure you pick up that mag and mechanically swivel your head to the left and right to make it look like your situational awareness is perfect."
Uh, why would I do stuff like that after I've put my gun away and am already policing stuff off the deck?
Seriously, it's probably a good idea if, after you've just shot one dude, to make sure that there's nobody else around that might need shooting as well. How this relates to some people's robotic 90° head pivot tea ceremony before holstering is unclear to me.
"Uh, why would I do stuff like that after I've put my gun away and am already policing stuff off the deck?"
ReplyDeleteWell, I got the impression from an American Defensive Enterprises video you once posted that you were supposed to do that after everything you did. And they did it after holstering, too. Hell, it looked like one guy did it after farting.
Oh, wait, you're not a dork, I forgot. Nevermind.
WV: Tackpo. The new monicker for the Tacktical PoPo.
@Tango Juliet - I just can't picture Clint in a tutu...
ReplyDelete@GFA, Clint stole the line and modified it to suit his own evil Capitalistic pursuits.
ReplyDeleteCooper has done it too. He lifted a line from the Bolshoi Academy.
Does this sound familiar?
"Mincing is all very fine in its own way, but it's no match for a 7.62x54R."