" combat stance"

[Ranger99]

I had to come inside and rest a bit
from the hot, and decided to look at
television for a while on one of the
odd channels.
The old show had a deputy sheriff
emptying his gun at a fleeing car,
and crouching and shooting with
his right hand, and the left was behind
him curled up as in a position for
formal fencing with those foil swords.
I kinda laughed and was thinking how
much things have changed since
I was younger 

I can remember ( what was probably
state of the art in the G Man days)
watching an old training film ( yes
a film) where they were crouching and
you're supposed to shoot with the one
hand, and ball up your fist of the
other hand and hold it to your
chest to "protect your heart "

[Eddie Southgate]

 My favorite Combat Stance is crouching behind something large and bullet proof .

[Mule 11]

My favorite Combat Stance is crouching behind something large and bullet proof .

Like an engine block and a wheel well?

[Lloyd Smale]

i always laughed at the westerns where they shot out the window and had only walls to protect them. Walls which by the way didnt even have insulation or even interior walls for the most part. I guess none of them every penetration tested a 45 colt. Another good one was rolling a wagon on its side and using that for cover.

My favorite Combat Stance is crouching behind something large and bullet proof .

[Eddie Southgate]

My favorite Combat Stance is crouching behind something large and bullet proof .

Like an engine block and a wheel well?

  Would do but I would much prefer a Tank that could help return fire .

[Eddie Southgate]

i always laughed at the westerns where they shot out the window and had only walls to protect them. Walls which by the way didnt even have insulation or even interior walls for the most part. I guess none of them every penetration tested a 45 colt. Another good one was rolling a wagon on its side and using that for cover.

My favorite Combat Stance is crouching behind something large and bullet proof .

   The guys that wrote those scripts obviously never been shot at in real life .

[Dee]

I always admired those 25 round 6 shooters.

[ironglow]

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   I guess in the case of single layer walls..a little something is better than nothing at all.. 

   As for turning a wagon on it's side, that can be very effective.  In one case it saved a woodcutting detail from death by several hundred marauding Indians.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Box_Fight

   I visited both the wagon box site and the site of the Fetterman massacre, over 30 years ago.  The Fetterman massacre was the result of overexuberant troops, disobeying orders.

  Similar circumstances though, the Fetterman detail ended up in the middle of a mountain hollow, trying to take cover behind a natural ring of large rocks... they didn't succeed.

[Lloyd Smale]

I always admired those 25 round 6 shooters.

they morfed into ar15s that you only have to load once a week. The real lame ones are when there going into a firefight with an ar15 flat top with no optic or even sights of any kind on top

[orerancher]

I always admired those 25 round 6 shooters.

they morfed into ar15s that you only have to load once a week. The real lame ones are when there going into a firefight with an ar15 flat top with no optic or even sights of any kind on top

No Problem...Once Ya Learn to Shoot a Pistol Sideways.....The AR is Easy....

[Dee]

Well Lloyds observation of movie folks shooting AR15s with no sights is Lloyd failed to realize that a "30 round spray and pray" is proper gun fight etiquette. 

[Mule 11]

I always admired those 25 round 6 shooters.

they morfed into ar15s that you only have to load once a week. The real lame ones are when there going into a firefight with an ar15 flat top with no optic or even sights of any kind on top

No Problem...Once Ya Learn to Shoot a Pistol Sideways.....The AR is Easy....

That’s why they need those gold teeth. Ejector protectors yo...