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Originally Posted by Michele
Although, aren't you supposed to wait until the "event" comes extremely close to draw and use your weapon. If you used it in the house wouldn't it be close?
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There's waiting and there's waiting. Yes, you can't use deadly force (for the most part -- permit me to simplify) until it is used against you. BUT you can certainly develop the situational awareness to know what is happening, to force your potential assailant to declare his intentions through action, and to manage the event to buy yourself more time and distance.
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Hopefully at close range, any gun will work for defense.
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Distance doesn't really matter wrt ballistics here. The more telling factor is that you will likely NOT have the time to take a relaxed, posed stance and make gun-range shots. You should be moving, and under the tempo of events, you're not going to get perfect COM shots. Heck, in a retention battle, you may have to shoot at
any target you can.
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Recoil, I would hope that I could handle it in an event.
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If you can't handle it now, you won't handle it then. Never assume you'll do better when the balloon goes up.