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Old August 29, 2017, 08:48 PM   #5
James K
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Many years ago, there was a fad (new, old, then new again) for the idea of mounting a flashlight on the weapon. Then some folks with experience in bad places pointed out that if there is a nasty guy in the area, he just might decide to shoot at what he could easily see, the light. Which, if the BG is a good shot (no rules limit skill levels to the pure of heart) he will blow away the light and the man behind it. That is why I was taught to hold the light in the off (left in my case) hand, forward and well away from the body. That way, if the BG assumes I am right handed and the light is in that hand and holds to the (BG's) right of the light, he hits only air. I know my education, such as it was, could not be as good as "modern" techniques, but a bullet that misses me by a couple of feet still seems better than one in the middle of my head. But then I don't understand, or so I have been told.

Jim

P.S. In gun games, the good guy always wins; would that it were true in real life (or death).

JK
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