mnrobitaille
Regular Member
After doing some practicing at the local range today, my father caught the bug & started looking at pistols. A couple of them had the Crimson Trace Laser included, & I was wondering are lasers a good thing to have?
+1Depends on the purpose of the pistol. For self-defense every day carry, I think not, for the expense, the complexity, the bad habits it encourages. For competition/gaming/ gadgetry ...
Crimson Trace laser grips on my EDC 1911. Requires no special holster and is an excellent point n' shoot training aid.
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1. Close quarters
2. - heat of the moment
3. - high stress =
4. Point and shoot. Ain't got no time to concentrate on where some red dot is pointed.
I bought a good "rail mount" laser for my EDC semi-auto. I use the laser exclusively for dry fire practice. It helps, but I did fine for a long time without it. I did mount it and take it to the range just to check it out... and it fell out of adjustment within a few rounds. Not much help in a live fire situation. Never shot a revolver equipped with a CT grip, but some of my students have had both semi-autos and revolvers with one in the last few years, and they had all acquired some bad habits that seem to be related.
Need to train in as many different situations, with as many different kinds of equipment as possible... That's the only way you'll figure out what works for you.
Oh, the heck with it! I'm gonna sell my guns. And, just carry horseshoes and hand grenades. Close counts with those.
And the only training question will be on which side I carry the horseshoes, and which side the hand grenades--don't want to throw a grenade in a non-lethal encounter that calls only for a horseshoe.
Crimson Trace laser grips on my EDC 1911. Requires no special holster and is an excellent point n' shoot training aid.
Oh, the heck with it! I'm gonna sell my guns. And, just carry horseshoes and hand grenades. Close counts with those.
And the only training question will be on which side I carry the horseshoes, and which side the hand grenades--don't want to throw a grenade in a non-lethal encounter that calls only for a horseshoe.
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ipse
Ahhhh--HA! Trying to entrap me into violating some BATFE law about interstate transfer! No way, buster! They'll be sold at a gun show where dealers don't need background checks just so I can drive the antis nuts!
Besides, you don't want them. High-mileage (high round-count), I've practiced a lot.
Now, do something useful and tell me where I can buy .45 caliber horseshoes. Long Colt, ACP--I don't care. As long as their designation starts with the holy numeral "4".
citizen if you will them to me no violations...and the name to put on your will is 'solus ipse'
For horseshoes you might look at the sig 45 with extended mag...push comes to shove you could use it as a billy club when you run out of ammo...darn hefty piece of metal that on...
Ipse
A laser would have a tremendous advantage if it became necessary to take a shot from a position that couldn't get your face into aiming position..