Gofirstclass
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I leaned back in the chair and quite unexpectedly, a mouse jumped out of the hole in the front of the seat. It scared the bejesus out of me so, operating purely on reaction, I drew from the seated position and shot that flippin' mouse before he'd gone 5 feet.
I'm not sure who was the most scared/startled....me or the guys on the firing line who had some dumb shit crank off a round from behind them. Word of that never got back to my department.
Now after further review, and me being the only one present now and who was present then, I can imagine that write-up might have seemed a bit of a stretch. For the record, I spend countless hours at the range just walking around, holstered and snapped, and letting my eyes wander around items on the ground.
When I would spot something on the ground I would draw and snap shoot at the item. It might have been a stone, a piece of sagebrush or cactus, whatever. It was all part of training my eyes and my muscles to work together. When I first started practicing that way I could usually get the bullet to hit within a foot or two of the target. After doing that for a few years I had my bullets coming within an inch or two and the more I practiced the closer the bullets got to the target item. Of course it helped that all of my ammo was paid for by the department.
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