>Now that's a very interesting point, but it also
raised a question with
>me: Can someone in law enforcement, emergency services
or with gun
>knowledge tell me if this is accurate? I had read
elsewhere that it is
>damned hard to shoot straight when holding a gun
sideways, but I had
>never heard this. Also, where does the recoil throw a
gun when shot
>this way? Does it throw it back into the shooter's
chest?
Rotating one's hand 45 degrees when being filmed shooting
a
semi-automatic pistol may look cool, and it may even be more
natural,
but semi-automatic pistols are not designed to be aimed that
way.
However, with practice, they can be just as accurate aimed
that way.
Still, Vasch (sp?) has a significant point with regard to the
extraction
of (hot, hot, hot) brass and where it lands. Would the
shooter prefer
the brass on the grass next to him or thrown into his
eyeballs?
Given the classic (and designed) aiming hand position, a
properly
adjusted extractor will throw the brass to the right, up, and
to the
rear of the shooter. Rotate the pistol 45 degrees
counterclockwise.
Where would the brass land? Right in the old jelly-orbs. I
had a Glock
that, even when aimed "classically," threw brass straight
back into my
face. I caught an expended shell casing between my glasses
and my face.
Big Owie! The Glock is a nice pistol, but reloads void the
warranty and
the unpredictable (and uncorrectable) extractor caused me to
swear off
them. I've since become a 1911 aficionado.
As for recoil, it is always straight back from a line
following the very
center of the barrel. But considering that one grips the
pistol below
(or to the right of) the barrel's centerline, then there is
this: Aimed
"classically," the recoil raises the arm; aimed sideways,
like a
precious lad might do so from a nearby single-family dwelling
unit among
a number of single-family dwelling units, the recoil moves
the arm to
the left.
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