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Here is personal first-hand experience:

I have a Ruger Talo Night Watchman and want (really need to due to old eyes) to replace the rear sight with a red dot. After researching dove tail mounting plates, I’m still confused on the proper plate to employ on this 1911 light weight Commander. There doesn’t seem to be a definitive...

Ok, Kleanbore. “Not be entitled to do anything,” says a lot about you and how you see no value for you in other citizens’ lives, and it would mean nothing to you if they were dead.

I just looked at the bottom of this page and discovered the headline: STRATEGIES, TACTICS, AND TRAINING. For the Mods: Do the training courses you have attended discuss hypothetical scenarios, hands-on shoot-don’t shoot vignettes, and live fire training situations? I’m really curious what...

Kleanbore, in order for you to get out of the way, you must be at the threshold. Tell us what you would do if you saw the robber stab the clerk and advance towards the exit you are blocking.

For the Mods, again. OK, the video’s release contradicts the original record. However, given the original incorrect presentation where the clerk was supposedly in imminent danger of death with the knife at her throat, please tell us what tactics you would employ.

Expanded interrogatory for the mods: What response would you initiate if the victim with the knife at their throat was a very close, life-long friend rather than an unknown citizen?

To the moderators: What response would you have taken knowing the totality of the circumstances as the citizen had at the time he intervened?

A few sage quotes may be appropriate: It is not so much what you hit them with, rather it is where you hit ‘em. It is not the noise you make, it the hits that count. Mind set, skill set, tools: ingredients for survival…. (The clerk in the store robbery who was disarmed demonstrates mind set...

It means you can’t outrun or dodge a bullet from a handgun at engagement distances, and incidentally, you don’t have to get direct center brain hit to render your aggressor unconscious. After all. we’re trying to stop the fight. Officer Gramin’s gun fight demonstrates this fact.

Kleanbore, isn’t the head attached to the body? If the head is moving so is the torso and even if you hit it, you’re probably leading to a certainty not going to stop the threat. Every autopsy I attended had brains way bigger than tennis balls. 180” per second cannot out run my bullets at 1300...

The goal is to Stop the deadly force threat with an absolute certainty. Not probabilities or eventual possibilities, and the only way to realize an absolute certainty is a head/spinal shot with a handgun regardless of caliber employed. Why not train for the first shot to be a head shot knowing...

Hi all, Does anyone in the membership know of an after market 10-22 barrel marker that will ream the chamber specifically for the CCI Stinger? Volquartsen and Kid will not, it appears these companies do not have the correct chamber reamer and shooter interest in this application must be low...

As a soon to retire (1990) officer/firearms instructor, newly appointed officers routinely asked why I continued to carry my model 19 as departmental issue had switched to semi autos. Policy gave us the choice as long as we could meet qualification standards. My response, “I won’t need to...

Interesting discussion. Mindset, or the willingness to exercise deadly force in self defense, remains at the vanguard of employment of deadly force. Skill, and the level of training and practice realized, in conjunction with the tools, i.e., firearm employed, have an impact on the outcome...

Yet another ammo failure...... a jammed cylinder due to a primer backing out against the recoil plate necessitated a rubber hammer to free the jammed cylinder. The round did not fire, only the primer ignited. Curious, we pulled the bullet to discover the Winchester brass did not have a flash hole!

Shooter induced problems seem to be the more common occurrence, but on rare occasion weapon/ammo failures surface. Four tact team members were practicing live fire entry drills. This was in the early 70’s and I was third in the stack, and our department issued S&W model 28’s. The first...

The scenario of an adversary pointing a firearm at me creates an immediate expectation on my part the bad guy will discharge his weapon, with the result of great bodily injury or death to me. It is foolish to think otherwise and hope he will somehow refrain from taking my life through...

Avoidance is not the issue. The original question was how long to wait when an aggressive, hostile adversary is pointing a gun at you, threatening to kill you. The OP wanted input regarding how to evaluate the scenario and what action to implement to reach a desirable conclusion.

if you lack confidence in your weaponry and/or your skills, why do you go armed? Are the videos you reference the norm, or those isolated, small samples mentioned in your post about Lance Thomas? Moderator White came up with two, how about some more?