if you've been in a gunfight....

idsman75

While attending a street survival course being taught by a Washington State Patrol veteran of 25 years, the instructor posed a very interesting scenario to me and the other 14 students in the class. He had us close our eyes and do some heavy visualization about a scenario in which you wake up hearing a noise in your home and seeing an intruder down the hallway with a gun. Everyone was lost in the visualization with our eyes closed and the instructor and his partner pulled out revolvers and multiple blank shots were fired in the classroom. We opened our eyes and both he and his partner were on opposite ends of the room holding guns. He asked us all to write down on a piece of paper how many shots were fired from each gun. Nobody got it right. All five shots came from his partner's gun. Most people guessed way high or way low and we all thought that shots came from both guns but our ears were tricked by the echoes resulting from the accoustics of the room in which the class was being held. Are there any LEO's here that have experienced similar situations in which statements and reports were made by LEO's involved in a shootout only to find out that the physical evidence contradicted what they perceived to be true with regards to who the shooter was and how many times the shooter fired? If so, what ramifications did this perception or lack thereof have in court?

bfair

Does getting off a few rounds 3"/50 and 5"54 at Victor Charlie Counter battery count?

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nunn

Good buddy of mine got shot on a traffic stop. You know how shooting participants often report that things run in slow motion? He said he could see the bullet coming at him, but he could not get out of the way fast enough.I think the brain processes the images like a movie camera. To make a slow motion print, you run the camera taking the pictures really fast. Played back at normal speed, you get a slow motion effect. The brain is in hyper-gear and processing information at a terrific rate, so everything appears to be slowing down.Another friend got into a shooting scuffle with two robbers. One had hold of him trying to take his gun, and the other one had a gun and was shooting at him. He shot at the gunman until he went down, and then turned his revolver toward the unarmed man that had hold of him. The man turned him loose and surrendered. Good thing too, the revolver was empty. My friend had fired all six and did not know it.

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