Have Any of You Daily Concealed/Open Carriers Ever Needed It????

[protective measures]

I shoot at johns mountain mostly. They have target racks at 25, 50, and 100, so I bring my own target stands.

I get a lot of snickers when I set my stands up at 7 yards, 3 yards, and 2 feet. I have actually had people laugh at me and ask me what the hell I'm doing when I practice shooting from retention at 2 feet.

I had one guy tell me if I would ditch my glock and buy a Sig like his, I could shoot at 25 like the rest of them.


That's ok though. I'm not there for target practice.

That is one of the most common mistakes I see in self-taught shooters who think they know how to fight with their pistol.
For years FBI statistics have shown that the majority of self defense shootings happen within 7'-10' yet less than 5% of the people who come through our school have shot from any kind of close retention, much less practiced force on force drills up close against a thinking, moving adversary.

 

[NWSharpshooter]

The way I look at it, at 25 yards I have no business shooting. Not saying I can't hit at that distance, but if I shoot somebody 75 feet from me, I'm going to need more than Doug King to get me out of that mess. I'd have to call Johnny Cochran.

 

[captdave77]

Yes

 

[Huffdaddy]

No and i hope i never have to !!!

 

[ali]

I was at work, I help a customer and was in my car doing paperwork. A homeless person came up to my window and demanded that I open my door. He then showed me a box cutter and started to punch and hit my window trying to break it. Once I put the laser that is connected my LCP on him .... he took off. I then called the police and they said it would be 45 minutes before they could get there. So, yes... it saved me. Had I not had a gun the odds are he would have broke my window then came at me with the box cutter.

I am shocked that you don't CC an AK.

 

[Smiley]

Hope I never have to use it, but having a pistol with me has got me out of a few scary situations...

~10yrs ago: Was filling my truck up with gas at 14th and Northside when a guy opened up the passenger door and climbed in. He was immediately greeted with the business end of my .45 and exited just as quickly as he entered. First time I ever pulled a gun on someone and it scared the everlivinpoo out of me.

~5yrs ago: Woke up one night to scratching sounds on the side of my house to find a guy cutting my phone lines. Him and his friends that were on the front porch left rather quickly when I tapped on the window just beside him with the same .45 Was most likely a planned home invasion, until they knew I was armed. To wake like that in the middle of the night was a very scary sitiuation, that I would never want to go through again.

Last Month: Was approached rather quickly by three young men out of a dark section of woods near my house around midnight on my way back walking home from a friends. Noticeably but casually, moved my CCW and pocket holster from the rear to the front and the progression of the men stopped imediately. Told them to have a good night and finished my walk home, then reported suspicious activity to police.

Seems like quite a few scenarios when I think about it, but I have lived in the City of Atlanta now, off and on, for more than 10 years. I have known a only a few friends to get held-up, mugged or carjacked but have heard alot of stories from others. While the city has it's fair share of crime, it is my home, and I won't be held hostage in it by a bunch of thugs. My ccw goes with me just like my keys, wallet, and cellphone.

 

[2001SportTJ]

I was at work one day when a customer came in and was intoxicated and started shouting racial slurs at me and my boss. We asked him to leave, he refused. I went to go "help" him out of the store and he reached in his pocket as I approached him and told me he was going to make blood pour from my body and pulled out a box cutter. I drew my 1911 and aimed it straight at his head and told him to leave. He left pretty quick. We called the police to make a report of the incident and show them the security tapes.

About twenty minutes later while waiting for the police to show up some guy comes into the store and walks up to the counter and says "Yo you cracker, you pulled a pistol on my uncle!" I explained to him what his uncle did and told him that the police were on the way and we were filing a police report and were going to press charges. He tells me that I better watch my back when we close that night. I explained to him that he better leave before the police show up and he refuses and keeps threatening me. I jump over the counter and tackle him to the ground and after I do guess who comes running in the store? His drunk uncle with the box cutter. I immediately jump up and draw down on them both and my boss pulls out the pistol grip 12 gauge from under the counter and we hold them there until the police arrive. Crazy day, hope it never happens again.

ETA: This was a few weeks ago and before then I only carried at work, since then I have applied for my GWL and plan on carrying every day.

 

[protective measures]

I was at work one day when a customer came in and was intoxicated and started shouting racial slurs at me and my boss. We asked him to leave, he refused. I went to go "help" him out of the store and he reached in his pocket as I approached him and told me he was going to make blood pour from my body and pulled out a box cutter. I drew my 1911 and aimed it straight at his head and told him to leave. He left pretty quick. We called the police to make a report of the incident and show them the security tapes.

About twenty minutes later while waiting for the police to show up some guy comes into the store and walks up to the counter and says "Yo you cracker, you pulled a pistol on my uncle!" I explained to him what his uncle did and told him that the police were on the way and we were filing a police report and were going to press charges. He tells me that I better watch my back when we close that night. I explained to him that he better leave before the police show up and he refuses and keeps threatening me. I jump over the counter and tackle him to the ground and after I do guess who comes running in the store? His drunk uncle with the box cutter. I immediately jump up and draw down on them both and my boss pulls out the pistol grip 12 gauge from under the counter and we hold them there until the police arrive. Crazy day, hope it never happens again.

ETA: This was a few weeks ago and before then I only carried at work, since then I have applied for my GWL and plan on carrying every day.

Rule #1 of a gunfight is to have one.

 

[wise]

5 years and never had to pull. and pray im not forced to.

 

[Chris86]

Not yet, hope I never have to. Thank God I don't live in Atlanta, that place sounds dangerous!