karen_m

karen_m wrote

Reply to comment by polpotisevil2 in Firearms Wiki by polpotisevil2

I will admit that "get someone killed" was a knee jerk reaction to what I feel is poor shooting advice. I will also point out that if you use the "200 yard shot upside down with a snub nose revolver" trick shot without context of what he says before making that shot, then you are dismissing the expertise of this marksman's advice based on the fact that he's presenting some trick shot videos as well as instructional videos. He says in literally dozens of videos that "anybody can make any shot in any stance given enough time".

Jerry Miculek has been winning competitions for more than 30 years, and has had to adapt his techniques to keep winning and has discovered that the most effective stance for winning right now is the isosceles stance.

My point is that isosceles stance (especially the power isosceles) allows one to draw faster, acquire the target faster, get the first shot faster, and absorb more recoil naturally which allows faster target re-acquisition to follow up with more shots faster. This stance is particularly useful for smaller stature people who may have more difficulty managing recoil as it isn't as much dependent on active muscular tension.

In competition shooting this means winning because of the time spent on target instead of managing moving one's body and managing recoil. Outside of competition I hope that might translate to me being able to defend my life or that of someone in my community's life vs not. I'll only get one chance in a competition... and in a self defense situation I'll potentially only get one chance to defend myself. Therefore, I should prepare with the best practices available to me at the time and adapt if they change.

So yeah, I'm being serious about my preference to shoot with isosceles stance.

Also, I take offense that you would assume my preference of the isosceles stance, that the winners in competitions since the 1980's have adopted, is equated with spending my time hanging around bootlicking tools and cops. I care about my community, including you, and want them to train with the best known tools available.

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