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Dan thank's for the compliment, You are the professional, I trained myself during a time of my life when I had to deal with some bad situation's. What I learned about pointing a gun at, a man is you better damn well be ready to drop the hammer,because if you;re not the bad guy can read this, so, I believe this is the most important thing to survive a life or death situation having made this mental decision when to take another's persons life.
coop

By the way, since im on my stump, I don't believe that the normal cop, Im not degineraterating police officers, is a lousy shot compared to people like my self who has studied gunfighting and has practiced to perfect ones skill. I have made shot's with a two inch revolver that would make me a liar in many peoples eyes' I know how Elmer Keith must have felt when He told of His six hundred yARD mule deer kill. But to back up this Claim A friend is a Sheriff's firearm;s trainer,
Coop

Handguns and long shooting are a great combination. I love to smack the 200 yard targets with a .44 Mag...but finding the hold-over may take a couple of ranging shots. One of my favorite long range pistols is the Colt Gold Cup. I love sending 800fps punkins out to heck and gone.

Dan

Longrange revolver used to be one of my favorite hobbies, I used to shoot ram,s at 100 meters with mod 36 just to debunk snubnose lousy accuracy. I tried to hit a 500 yard plate in Co, get together and could'nt see my bullets strike , which Elmer said was the only way you could correct holder at such range
Coop

ps the 500 yd shots were with a 44 mag. I believe it can be done with a little practice. I was really surprised wheh I hunted SALMON ID THE PEOPLE THERE HAD LITTLE GOOD TO SAY ABOUT Elmer, mostly jealousy in my opinion. Just visited Elmers museum at boise cabela's enjoyed sorry about typing
coop

Believe it or not, my favorite long range handgun was my custom 9mm Hi Power, excellent trajectory. Almost no holdover out to 150 yards and just a tad for 200 yards. Great trajectory and very little recoil...Not that a 9mm would actually do anything once it got all the way out there, but hey, it was fun.

For real challenge, I turn to my K-22 and shoot at 100-200 yards. 100 isn't all that hard, but 200 requires some real finesse.

I onced played around shooting at playing cards edgewise 10 feet or so started big then found success with mod 63 22 cut them like a knife no purpose just did it when was challenged to try
coop

Speaking about snubnose accuracy, back when I used to spend a lot of time in a squad car in Northern Wisconsin, we would take every opportunity to varmint hunt with our handguns. I spotted a nice fat wood chuck sunning himself one afternoon and used my secondary weapon - a Model 19 2.5" to pot him. Paced off at 75 long steps (okay...74 and a short one).

One time while walking with my father in-law around a new piece of property he'd bought, his dog started off after a skunk at about 50 yards. I managed to pot the skunk before the dog reached him with a bone stock Remington Rand .45 1911A1 and my father in law liked to drop his dentures!

Both shots were lucky.

Dan

But practice creates much better luck for those who do it.

Yep. Seems I remember a fella 'round here used to put it as: "A man makes his own luck", or something similar.

He was right. Still is.