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1758
... Practicing a dry draw, which ends with dropping the hammer on a dry first shot, can be done with any pistol regardless of action type. Firing multiple dry...
Karl Rehn
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Aug 1, 2005
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1759
Texas Tactical will be putting on an IDPA Match this Sunday August 7th at the Blackhawk range (Thanks Guys!!) in San Antonio. Bring a friend or two or 3 and ...
Michael "Iron Mike" W...
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Aug 1, 2005
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Texas Tactical will be putting on an IDPA Match this Saturday August 13th at the Hays County range between Austin and San Antonio. Bring a friend or two or 3...
Michael "Iron Mike" W...
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Aug 10, 2005
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... From: Heather To: Heather Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:10 PM Subject: [bipolar-kids] 9/11 I would LOVE to see this truck in person. Trucker who has...
WJLSullivan
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Aug 12, 2005
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Texas Tactical will be putting on an IDPA Match this Sunday August 21st at the Hays County range between Austin and San Antonio. Bring a friend or two or 3 and...
Michael "Iron Mike" W...
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Aug 17, 2005
7:29 pm
1763
... It's not that important.Just don't close your eyes like Clint when you shoot. Peter...
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Aug 19, 2005
9:27 pm
1764
www.cheaperthandirt.com check it out. Peter...
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Aug 19, 2005
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1765
A good place. (One that has the nearly-perpetual paper catalogs, too.) Rick Colorado ========= ... From: Combat-Handgun@yahoogroups.com...
Rick A. Shay
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Aug 19, 2005
10:14 pm
1766
Karl I agree with you. You probably get more out of dry fire practice then live fire. Or at least I do. I recomend it to all my students it's a proven fact...
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Aug 21, 2005
1:51 pm
1767
... The biggest problem most shooters have is poor trigger control and dry firing will help with that. One strange effect I've seen in people that dry fire a...
Karl Rehn
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Aug 21, 2005
2:26 pm
1768
Texas Tactical will be putting on a Carbine Match this Saturday August 27th, 2005 at the *Hays County Range* between Austin and San Antonio, Texas. Come one...
Michael "Iron Mike" W...
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Aug 24, 2005
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1769
Anybody know of a reliable source to verify the following story? ... I heard a tragic story recently about a police officer who was killed in a gunfight....
Robert
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Aug 25, 2005
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Robert <robbiev@...> wrote:Anybody know of a reliable source to verify the following story? ... I heard a tragic story recently about a police...
robert micciche
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Aug 25, 2005
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1771
... If it's on the Internet it must be true. Michael Bane recently wrote a great article about "the tactical reload" for Handguns magazine: ...
Karl Rehn
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Aug 25, 2005
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1772
Karl Rehn <rehn@...> wrote: It makes sense! Real stupid if the cops have not picked up on this before hand! I personally think that was BAD...
robert micciche
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Aug 25, 2005
8:39 pm
1773
First of all most cops don't practice so the fact that they said he did is in it's self a story. Same thing happened a long time back I believe in California...
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Aug 26, 2005
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1774
I believe you are referring to the "Newhall" incident which happened in 1970. The story I posted was related to me like it happened the "other day" but I...
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Aug 26, 2005
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1775
A lot of things they do when dealing with guns don't make sense! Cowboys were some of the best shots in the world because they didn't have to raise their gun...
robert micciche
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Aug 26, 2005
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1776
... You're kidding right? Hollywood depictions of the shooting skill of old West cowboys - particularly during the Golden Age of Westerns (30s to early 60's), ...
Karl Rehn
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Aug 26, 2005
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1777
... You're kidding right? Hollywood depictions of the shooting skill of old West cowboys - If you know jeff copper than you must have read about trick hand gun...
robert micciche
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Aug 26, 2005
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1778
Dear Karl, I don't know about you but I can hit beer cans with hand guns out to 75 yards with a two hand hold. Guns are precision instrements and any quality...
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Aug 26, 2005
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1779
... You got that right! A friend of mine did his Master's thesis on the Old West gunfights. The most common gunfight was between 2 drunks at 3'. Money was...
Jim & Linda
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Aug 26, 2005
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1780
Where on earth did this theory come from. The historical records indicate cowboys were lousy shots. Only a few of the "gunmen" were really at all competent...
WJLSullivan
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Aug 26, 2005
10:22 pm
1781
The guys that could do that were (and are) few and far between. The intrinsic accuracy of the guns themselves especially with black powder and the lousy...
WJLSullivan
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Aug 26, 2005
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WJLSullivan <wjlsullivan@...> wrote: Where on earth did this theory come from. The historical records indicate cowboys were lousy shots. Only a few...
robert micciche
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Aug 26, 2005
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1783
I don't even know where to begin to reply to this. I have read a large number of books on the cowboy west of the latter half of the 1800's, and none of them...
WJLSullivan
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Aug 26, 2005
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1784
This is totally the opposite of what I have read, maybe in hollyweird movies ... Steve in Colorado ... From: Combat-Handgun@yahoogroups.com...
Steve Swickard
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Aug 27, 2005
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1785
Hi Karl, I'm going to quietly step into this. I think that what most people consider "point shooting" is aimed fire, they just don't realize it. I've been...
matt
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Aug 27, 2005
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1786
I was waiting for someone to pick up on that. The average cowboy only carried a gun for the occasional rattlesnake, a chance to get some small game, or to...
Earl F. Hawkes, Jr.
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Aug 27, 2005
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1787
Sure, but they were few, and far between, and usually sponsored by the gun, or bullet companies that could afford to supply the large quantities of cartridges...
Earl F. Hawkes, Jr.
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