Re: What 45 to buy????
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: VAJayJayPunisher</div><div class="ubbcode-body">why shoot groups with a rifle? I mean a rifle is used to get you covered in defilade back to a pack howitzer is it not </div></div>
By "rifle", if you mean a precision rifle like most of us on the Sniper's Hide do, then there is at least some purpose to shooting groups. I don't know how you make use of *you're* precision long range rifle, but I take well aimed careful shots with mine. The practical use of one of these rifles is to take "well aimed shots", so that you can hit a small, discrete, specific targets. Shooting groups demonstrates the ability of the weapon system to consistently hit small, discrete, specific targets.
I argue that the purpose of a handgun is *not* to take "well aimed shots", so that you can hit small, discrete, specific targets. Rather, the pistol is used for laying down fire at close targets, and so I think you should train to use it as such... Unless of course, you are a bullseye shooter.
Don't know about you, but shooting groups with a pistol got VERY boring to me. Its way more fun to shoot down six 8" steel plates with 8 rounds in 6 seconds at 12 yards.....than it is to shoot down six 8" plates with 6 rounds in 20 seconds at 50 yards....More useful/practical too.
I like to occasionally test my marksmanship at "long range" (50+ yards with a duty-type pistol) with my handguns, but I contend it's not generally a very "practical" skill, at least compared to being able to rapidly hit a man-sized target consistently at 10 yards or less.
