[QUOTE=m21sniper;4576986]3 times for me so far.
Once i caught a fleeing scumbag on foot(illegal, no license or insurance) after he hit and ran a lady and her kid in their car. He hit her so hard his inertia switch triggered and his car stalled, so he was forced to try and run on foot. This was a major accident and serious injuries were involved.
I was just a little faster. Mr. 9mm convinced him to follow me back to the accident scene with no fuss or muss. Last i saw him he was wearing shiny silver bracelets and going for a ride in the pretty car with the flashing blue and red lights.
I just recently caught a different hit and run guy that tried to flee when he hit the car in front of mine and my partner's saab. I didn't require a pistol for that one, though my partner did end up pepper spraying the COMPLETELY HAMMERED DRUNK guy.
Another time i caught 3 young guys trying to break into the bar under my apartmet. My white german shepard and mr. 12 gauge pump convinced them to stop that chit right away.
Finally, i was in my car and the guy behind me was in full road rage mode for some perceived offense. At was at the tail end of rush hour, maybe 7:00pm.
After he followed me trying to cut me off and panic brake in front of me several times i just pulled onto a commercial street(no witnesses or innocents) and stopped my car.
Sure enough, he pulled up right behind me and tapped my bumper, and gets out all in a rage.
OUTFREEKING STANDING!
you know anyone who wants to get in a shootout in my book is a freeking lunatic in his own right. im not dumb and im not stoopid......bullets hurt........ALOT!
butttt..........on the other side of the coin i have been shooting wayyyy longer than most here and at a preeeetty high level over the years. without hesatation in the event of being in the REALLY WRONG PLACE AT THE REALLY WRONG TIME i will be coming from concealed and firing before any of you can spit! and not think twice if put in that position. there is no time to think. your training takes over and thats that!. any scumbag that puts anyone around me in that position, i will draw down and fire if i have a clear shot.
and thats exactly what i did last summer up on clear creek outside of camp verde when the idiot mofo POS started sending tree branches and leaves falling on our heads shooting at us! had i had a clear shot after yelling at him as well as about 50 other people, TO CEASE FIRE and he then reloaded after all of us yelling and proceeded to fire some more, the only freeking reason that POS MOFO POS is still on this planet is because i didnt have a clear shot! and that was witnessed by at least 50 people including my g/friend, uncle bill from patricks his wife his kids his dog!
when this clown continued shooting after everyone yelling, i was angling around my truck,round in pipe,safety off,finger on trigger, using truck for cover looking for the clear shot to cease the threat. no ifs and or butts, if i had the clear shot he WAS DEAD! all my years of training took over and it was him or me. and believe me it was NOT GONNA BE ME!
when it was all said and done with the cops and the usfs ranger danger quite a few sheeple came up to me and thanked me for my actions. no b.s. no embellishment. me.........i was scared poo-less. it took a hell of alot of beers that night to put my adrenaline down to a acceptable level.
i didnt want to be in that position, i didnt ask for that situation, i wouldnt wish that upon anyone. until you have been shot at dont even try and tell me what you would or wouldnt do. all i know is since i have been shooting ALOT and hunting ALOT and shooting matches ALOT since i was 6 years old with about every kind of weapon there is, i think i kind of know something about the subject. writing about this experience right now has my blood pressure up. this clown could have killed quite a few people because of his stupidity. as i said if i had a clear shot on his worthless ass there would be one less idiot mofo on this planet. i have always been trained to only take the shot when it is clear. i think i handled myself with more restraint than 99.99999999999999999% of most people. in hindsight i may have hit him emptying my clip thru the trees and reloading,emptying clip, thru the tree branches, but i also may have hit someone else. and that thought does keep rolling over in my mind. and if someone by us had been hit and i didnt take the shot because it wasnt clear, should i have taken the shot when it wasnt clear to cease the threat?????
after that camping trip i will never go again without superior overwhelming massive firepower! screw a .45!
not fun by any stretch. will never forget it it ever!
by the way last sunday i shot 15th out of 52 people attending. i was ranked 6 places above my 20 year old son whose a damn good shot in his own right. i havent shot a match in years............YEARS! the 14 people ahead of me on the roster shoot every 4th sunday. they are wayy older than me. they shoot alot. like their retired and SHOOT ALOT! they live within 20 minutes of the range.......they SHOOT ALOT!
i felt pretty damn good about that. the last time i shot a match i didnt need glasses. getting old sucks when it comes to eyesight. i used to have BEYOND PERFECT VISION, like the bottom row of the eye chart was simple. those were the days. i hate glasses when it comes to shooting. i had my glasses on up in clear creek, if i had seen him i would have shot him. no 2 ways about it! it wasnt fun and i will never go thru that again if i can help it in anyway!
as for paco de muy loco cabeza, he got reckless endangerment, firing a weapon within usfs campgrounds, and a few other nice firearms offenses that preclude his worthless ass from ever possessing a firearm again in his life! thank you usfs ranger dangers and yavapai county sheriffs office.