BamaD
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ORIGINAL: thompsonx ORIGINAL: Nnanji ORIGINAL: thompsonx Shooting to wound or to warn also, in court, lends credence to the idea that you didn't have fear for your life. Really????how so??? In California law...you look it up, I have...the Castle Doctrine states that you may use deadly force if you are in imminent danger of death or great bodily injury. The law presumes you had the right to use deadly force unless the prosecutor can provide contrary evidence. This is in the law Shooting to wound is such evidence, shooting warning shots is such evidence. Actually, shooting to warn turns the roles around and legally provides the home invader with evidence that his/her life is in imminent danger. This is not the law in fact the law is the exact opposit. So clearly you have not looked up the law. 3) California’s stand-your-ground defense as part of the justifiable homicide rules has several conditions. Aggressors are not eligible for this — you must be defending, not striking first. http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/22/5-things-to-know-about-stand-your-ground-in-california It takes a well trained person about 1/4 second to get a shot off with a Glock. This would be opinion unsubstantiated by fact Cycle time on a glock or a baretta is .05 sec. The discussion is about a .22 high standard which is a blow-back auto loader with a similar cycle time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beretta_93R (Again, you look it up.). It takes a person 18/100's of a second to raise a hand from the waists to the shoulder. It's pretty impossible to hit a hand except by luck. A toe would be very similar. The toe is attached to a foot. When you run the foot has to stop each time it is planted and it stays stationary for about a third of a second. When you are running at someone the foot is moving fore and aft not side to side. The foot also goes up and down but always in the same plane. Travel time of the bullet in the challange being discussed is about .025. cycle time of the weapon is .05 seconds That would be .075 sec from triger pull to bullet strike to battery, leaving plenty of time for a second shot. The amount of time to raise my arm is not relevant since once it is up it is up. So each time the foot plants I have about .333 seconds to do .075 seconds worth of work to do. It will take a running man about 8 seconds to cover 25 yards. The bulls eye on a 25 yard pistol target is 1.51" in diameter. Why do you think that is too difficult for someone who knows how to shoot? In the clay target Trap shooting, a clay target is about a third the size of my foot. Except for handicap Trap, it's shot with a shotgun from 16 yards. Rarely do people break all the Traps. Shooting clay birds(not traps) is different from the challange being discussed. The birds are thrown up and away and at varying angles from the shooter. My handicap by the way is 22 yards. So, I'd say your ability to hit a moving toe with a handgun at 25 yards should be good enough to get you into competition...or the circus. Actually it barely gets my name on the list of real shooters. Trap is, of course, done with a shotgun, making it a faulty comparison to anythig with a handgun. BTW you never did come up with any expert, other than yourself, who advocates foot shooting.
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