Have you ever shot anyone?

[Waingro]

Well the question that I have not seen asked. Have any of you ever shot anyone (on purpose)? LEO or civilian. Hell, military too.

Did training kick in? Please do tell your experience. I hear when your in that kind of situation only 10% of your training sticks with you.

Another thing is that you all talk a lot about shot placement, calibers, best self defense weapons, etc. I am also curious to see who has actually been in this situation.

[ohsmily]

I think that most people who have been involved in shootings, especially non-job related ones won't be inclined to comment about it on a public forum.

YMMV.

If you really want to know about this stuff, there are a number of books, manuals, and columns in various magazines written by people who have been through the experience.

[wildcard]

I shoot black guys.. white guys.. and occasionally white girls (only after I hit the "hostage taker).. and gray guys..

I'll continue to do so until somebody prints them in a color other than that

[QuarterBoreGunner]

I hurt someone's feelings once...

[50 Freak]

Plenty of people, I've litteraly shot and killed thousands of men, women and ugly troll looking kid-lings. However all my killings have been on Nintendo or Sega.

[Waingro]

4 replies already and only 1 with any information. impressive.

edit: wait it was 7 - but they got deleted so quickly because of the sexual and disgusting nature of them.

[rkt88edmo]

The topics has been raised before, more than once, I think Ohsmily has covered the essentials.

As far as us all "talking about best self defense and shot placement calibre etc.", I honestly think that is less than 1% of the conversation here.

[4 Brigada]

You know I dont think that this is the place to discuss your question. I move that it be removed

[WolfMansDad]

You know I dont think that this is the place to discuss your question. I move that it be removed

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[SJshooter]

In my experience (I asked this same question in another forum about two years ago), people do not want to talk about their experiences. They are, for the most part, traumatic. Many will find offense even at you asking, although I agree with you that the sharing of stories only helps others.

If you really want to read a lot of real-life shooting stories, I suggest two venues:
1) Glock Talk - for some reason this forum always seems to have a thread like this going, and its the only gun forum I have seen where people participate regularly in this type of discussion. Often with enthusiasm.
2) The writings of Charles Askins. Pick up "Unrepentant Sinner" and you can read all the shooting stories you want - no holds barred.

[Bobula]

You know I dont think that this is the place to discuss your question. I move that it be removed

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[Waingro]

You know I dont think that this is the place to discuss your question. I move that it be removed

On what grounds? This is a gun forum. We do have military members, LEO's, and armed civilians.

It would be very useful to know how they reacted during a self defense shooting. After reading about the member that got shot at it got me curious.

I would also like to know how much training really sticks in situations such as these. I would imagine my self just unloading the whole magazine in the general direction. I know I have to consider what is behind the target, shot placement, and such but in such a high stress situation would that really occur? When watching cop videos you can even see officer training go wrong.

I don't see why this question is not discussable, I am not asking "Who did a drive by and popped a cap in someone?"

[QuarterBoreGunner]

If you really want to know about this stuff, there are a number of books, manuals, and columns in various magazines written by people who have been through the experience.

What ohsmily said is true; instead of internet anecdotes or internet tough guy posturing, why not get verified, documented info from the 'been there done that' crowd.

And to answer your original question, I shot a man that was trying to kill me and two others.

And it sucked. Glad I got through it, but could have done without it.

I have no problem answering serious questions, but frankly I've been on this board a while and it's been discussed to death.

[Soldier415]

The thing is, the discussion waingro wants to have is better done over a beer (or bottle of scotch) between two people, not an internet forum board.

[4 Brigada]

On the grounds of