Gun Digest's Best Concealed Carry Guns & CCW Gear eShort by Massad Ayoob

Author:Massad Ayoob [Ayoob, Massad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-3530-6
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2011-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

OLDER EYES need more visible sights. Ghost ring on this Glock works well for some.

For “body work,” forget that nebulous “center mass” terminology. You are aiming for the heart, and from the front, heart into spine. Between the nipples is the aiming point on an erect human torso. If you are firing upward or your target is leaning backward, aim lower; if the target is bent forward in an aggressive “I’m coming to kill you!” posture, set your sights lower to angle the shot upward and into the “fuel pump.” Two friends of mine were involved in a cataclysmic gun battle with two violent, heavily armed robbers. The first perp, a very large man, fell into the smaller partner and knocked him down, his corpse atop him like a human sandbag. As the two officers poured fire into the threat, one had the presence of mind as he dropped his empty gun and reached for a loaded one to yell to his partner, “Bill, you’re hittin’ high!” In moments, the bullets had gone to the right place, and both gunmen were dead on the floor.

For decades now, I have taught my students that they should have a copy of the classic textbook Grey’s Anatomy on their bookshelf next to their firearms manuals. I remind them, as I remind you now, to memorize the diagrams until you can visualize the internal structures automatically from any angle.

As you study this topic, analyze whether the proponents of any given point of aim have actually studied gunfights in which people were shot in those parts of the body, or whether they are just reflexively parroting old training mantra of “center of mass” or “two in the body, one in the head.” In a recent internet forum discussion on this topic, some folks said, “The pelvis will be harder to hit than the heart.”

Dr. Jim Williams, the police surgeon and tactical anatomy expert cited earlier, recently told me he had calculated “the target area (in frontal plane) of the vulnerable bony area of the average (70 kg./150 lb) adult male pelvis as 110 square inches, and the vulnerable neurovascular area of the pelvis at 45 square inches, vs. approximately 30 square inches for the high-chest (mediastinal) target zone (again, the frontal plane).”

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.