-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/2/97 2:35 AM, Jim Choate (ravage@ssz.com) passed this wisdom:

Remember: A gun is like a finger, just point it at what you want to hit.

I have met hundreds of great shots in my life, there are many people forwhom this sort of behaviour would not be delusional. My grandfather (who you'll hear more about in a minute) used to delight us as small kids by lighting matches stuck in wood fence posts with a .22 pistol from about 50 yds. My cousin from Louisiana likes to shoot squirrels (if you can callit that) by passing the bullet just in front of their nose, causes lung hemorraghes and they just fall off the limb. Me, I always miss or blow theirteeny little head off, it's apparently a game of 1/4 inches. I work with anex-gomer (ie USMC) pilot who is quite phenomenal with his .357 Desert Eagle,his groupings are just about an inch at 25 yds.

None of these targets shoots back ... none of these targets pump up much adrenaline. I would never call myself a great shot (I did qualify expert at both rifle, M-14, "A" course and pistol, .45, 1911A1), and I can tell you of making several 25-35 yard snap shots in the jungle at moving shooting targets with the adrenaline driving my eyeballs through the roof ... but they were exactly that, pure reflex, center of body mass shots, under max pressure. I must in all fairness recall the other three to six shots each time that could have gone anywhere and probably did. The point is, "shooting to wound" is a dangerous delusion! *no one* can predict what a bullet will do when it enters the body. The rule I have always followed is don't take out your gun unless you are going to use it; don't use it unless you intend to kill. Makes decisions much easier on that basis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNDQjysdZgC62U/gIEQL2pwCfYadqKN/3+wKF1BYC7MZxp8y3ud0An1L4 yXD3o+rsefpV8FO8MqD6OEtl =GHfD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "The Box said Win '95 or better - So I used a Macintosh!" -- Harold Herbert Tessman