Reply #13: I hope I never have to but I KNOW if I ever draw my pistol in a self defense situation

[Hoopla Phil]

it WILL go bang. Let me explain.

As a young adult I participated in lots of shooting competitions. One is called IPSC and it deals with pistols. Lots of shooting, running to different shooting areas and shooting some more. This is all done with a timer and scoring is based on hitting the correct targets the most accurately vs. your time. It really is a lot of fun.

So in 95 we got our concealed carry law in Texas and I took it upon myself to get extra training for this. One drill we were running was to, on the range officers command (it was a buzzer of some sort) to draw our weapon and bring it to the low ready position. Now we were doing this on the range with targets at 10 yards and our pistols empty. I could not go to the low ready position as hard as I tried. EVERY time the buzzer went off I reflexively drew, aimed at center mass and pulled the trigger. Years of playing the IPSC game had ingrained in me this muscle memory reflex. This class taught me a very valuable lesson!

I've been following your posts today and want to thank you for your interaction. There is a program on TV that, IIRC, is 30 days. It deals with putting a person in a completely different life style for 30 days and see how it goes. There was one where a person that was a gun prohibitionist went to stay with a very pro gun family for 30 days. She got to learn about them, shoot guns, and even worked at a gun store for a while to really immerse her in the "culture". It was very cool and reading your threads today reminded me of that show. Anyhow, thank you.