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Back in my EMS days, we responded to a house in which the irate wife shot the husband with his S&W Model 29...she hit him 3 times...two superficial hits in his arm and a through and through to his left chest...the guy disarmed his wife and was sitting on her when the police arrived...the guy then walked to the ambulance so we could take him to the hospital...Followed up and found he spent a few days in the hospital...
The 1874 Sharps...The gun that made the west safe for Winchester
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain)
I'm older than I care to admit (but interestingly, younger than my age...)
But, in my early LE days, there was this guy who invented 2nd Chance vests who would go to police academies and demonstrate his vest by shooting himself in the chest with a random gun from a recruit's holster! We were all normally carrying .357s. After shooting himself, he'd then engage a target and demonstrate that you could take a center mass hit and return fire effectively.
I think his name was Richard Davis. I scraped up the money to buy one! Most departments at the time didn't issue them.
Richie Davis was a former pizza delivery guy in Detroit...The Second Chance factory was in Antrim County Michigan and he used to host the most awesome annual shoot at his place...ostensibly a bowling pin shoot but it had classes for literally everything...like clearing a table full of pins with a Thompson submachine gun...a total hoot...
The last year I went Richie got on the loudspeaker and asked the name of Tonto's horse...the first person with a correct answer walked away with a brand new 1911...and this kind of stuff went on for 3 straight days...
The 1874 Sharps...The gun that made the west safe for Winchester
I watched a video where he shot a guy wearing a rifle rated vest, with a .308 Win from veritable point blank range and the guy standing on one foot. Just to prove that his best would stop a .30cal and that it doesn’t knock you off your……foot.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Jayhawker wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:06 am
Richie Davis was a former pizza delivery guy in Detroit...The Second Chance factory was in Antrim County Michigan and he used to host the most awesome annual shoot at his place...ostensibly a bowling pin shoot but it had classes for literally everything...like clearing a table full of pins with a Thompson submachine gun...a total hoot...
The last year I went Richie got on the loudspeaker and asked the name of Tonto's horse...the first person with a correct answer walked away with a brand new 1911...and this kind of stuff went on for 3 straight days...
