Thursday Morning Feel Good Story
Chief Tango sends us our morning feel good story today. This one takes place in Minnesota where two bouncers stopped to cash their checks after work one night and encountered two enterprising youths in the parking lot;
VT, who is 31, saw two males approaching them as he walked to the passenger side of the car and heard the sound of a gun racking a round. A man in a baseball cap, later identified as Galloway, pointed a gun at VT and told him not to move. VT told TG, who is 26, not to move because he feared they would be shot if they did.
When VT looked again, the man with Galloway had the handgun and approached TG on the driver’s side. The robber, wearing a stocking cap, went into the car and robbed TG of the $160 he’d just received from cashing his check.
While TG was being robbed, VT “surreptitiously removed his wallet from his pocket and slid it between the passenger seat and the door jamb,” the complaint said. The man with the stocking cap then pointed the gun at VT and demanded money.
“VT told the men he didn’t carry money because he bounces in a bar,” the complaint said. Galloway searched his pockets. Finding nothing, the other robber “gave VT a look of disgust and disbelief” and the two robbers backed away from the car, the complaint said.
“VT was afraid that he and TG were going to be shot” and reached under the passenger seat to grab his Sig Sauer P250 .45-caliber handgun, which he has a permit to carry, the complaint said. “VT feared the two men didn’t believe him when he said he didn’t have any money, and he was afraid they might come back.”
The robbers crossed into a Dairy Queen parking lot and the man in the stocking cap raised his handgun and pointed it toward TG and VT.
VT then fired at the robbers, the complaint said, and the man in the stocking cap simultaneously fired once in VT’s direction. VT fired five times and his second shot struck Galloway.
Unfortunately, Mr. Galloway had only been wounded in the leg, but he’s been scooped up by the local constabulary which had to use dogs to find him. Remember when you’re shooting longer distances, shoot higher than you normally would, otherwise it’s a gamble whether you’re going to hit their scrawny legs and you may end up wasting precious ammo.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Todays range lesson is, target aquisition and compensating for distance?
Keep shooting until the target changes shape or catches fire.
#2, that’s T-shirt quality advice.
@2 – Nice.
@2–works for me!
Jonn – center of mass, buddy, no screwing around
I thought you were supposed to aim for the mid-section.
So is MN now on that list of states that makes people jump through hoops just to have a gun?
@7 At a longer distance (depends on your weapon) you have to compensate for bullet drop. There are times when you aim below center of mass to prevent the bullet from going too high.
Personally, I see this kind of stuff and believe we need the laws to be changed. Not gun laws, but laws of how we charge people.
Thus puke isn’t giving up his friend. So, rather than charging him with two counts of armed robbery and such, charge him with four (add his unidentified friend’s charges to him since he is aiding and abetting). If you did this, for however many pukes are involved, you will see a great many more people turning on their friends rather than facing twice as much time in the pound.
PintoNag: the M16 demonstrated that quite well. If I recall correctly, the M16 was designed when zeroed correctly to be exactly at the aim point at 25m and 250m, above aim point (but not all that much much above) between 25m and 250m, and to drop below aim point beyond again 250m.
Since the round was high-velocity, the rise/drop wasn’t too much until you got out to 300m and beyond. But if you weren’t careful, it was fairly easy to overshoot some of the shorter-range targets. The 50m targets always gave me fits.
Hondo: I am currently learning about ballistics for a .308 hunting rifle with a 3x9x40 scope. I’ve shot with iron sights all my life, never had to worry about long range shooting until now, and never had reason to read ballistics tables before.
I wasn’t planning on learning rocket science when I bought that rifle — but I guess it’s my new hobby! 🙂