Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Bad Pistol-Acting

Yeah, I know: what's pistol-acting. It's how actors in movies and tv hold a pistol when they are "moving forward all tense and nervous" through a hallway or an alley or an office or a gay bar or a dildo factory or a summer camp for cats and they have both hands in a death grip on the thing, one hand around the handle and the other hand underneath the first hand "holding the pistol steady to ensure accuracy." Nothing can fucking "ensure accuracy" of a pistol. Especially an automatic, which is always the gun of choice of directors. Half the time they don't work. Why try to "ensure accuracy" if it ain't even gonna shoot. Might as well approach the bad guy backwards, bent over, your pants down at your shoes and the gun being held by both ass cheeks "to ensure accuracy." Now I know all the gun manuals and all the instructors and gun handlers insist this is what you have to do if you are in law enforcement to approach a danger zone in a confined area. They never tell you "shitcan the automatic, it probably won't work." No, they say to hold the grip with your shooting hand and hold the undersde of the grip and your shooting hand with the other hand and keeep your arms stiff. I love it: all these asshole actors looking all tense in a makebelieve arena and turning their entire bodies to follow the pistol barrel because they are straight-arming the gun like it is trying to transport itself into their face by invisible power and they are trying to keep it away. Then they slam their back against a corner and pull the gun with both arms bent and both hands still in a fucking death grip on it and then OUT GO THE ARMS AGAIN as they turn the corner and proceed. You would think to their death. Or at least into a hail of gunfire shredding both their arms, since they stuck them out into bullet traffic. I guess to test the water. Here is a rule for you in gun fighting with automatics: if you are so bad a shot that you cannot hit someone in a room or a corridor or across the street using only one hand on the pistol, you really shouldn't be involving yourself in that kind of situation. You will not frighten anyone by standing with your back to the doorway and then whooshing in and standing stock still with both arms extended forward and looking around and then whirling 20 degrees and doing the same thing. You are going to get shot if there's someone calmly ANYWHERE in that room and leisurely picking you off. He KNOWS where you are. If you are holding the pistol with both hands you are not going to shoot any more accurately becaussssssse....anybody? Because you won't be using the sights. You would be obstructing your own vision. You're ALREADY being stupid with both your arms in front of you, HOPEFULLY you are at LEAST allowing yourself to SEE what the fuck is going on so that you'll know where the guy was before he shot you to death. So even with two hands clutched like a reetard onto the pistol you won't be using the worthless sights. So why not just put one arm into operation. If you can't hit the target by holding the gun with one hand without aiming, you really shouldn't be carrying a fucking bullet-shooter at all. If you are competing in a target shoot - the two-handed hold is essential. You get to stand there for as long as you want and the target will never try and shoot you first. PLUS - you get to use the SIGHTS. Can anyone but me see the difference in the two situations here?

1 Comments:

At January 15, 2009 at 12:58 AM , Blogger jj solari said...

You are going to get a lot of really good actors killed with this wacky advice. Sincerely, directors and viewers everywhere.

 

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