timbo
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I curious to try this out, although at my local range I'm afraid of being kicked out if I did. Then again I probably need a second gun to use too. As far as practical usage goes, I think I'll stick to keeping both hands on one gun.
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James Bondrock
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There is nothing wrong with carrying two matched (or similarly operating) guns if you wish, but I vote for shooting one dry, then going for the other one. When you see both guns fired simultaneously in movies, remember that movie guns have no recoil and no one actually gets hit by real bullets.
OEF_VET
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I've tried it once or twice, but only when I had a VERY LARGE backstop and there was no danger of rounds overflying it, posing a danger to anyone beyond the range.
Let me tell you a story about learning the hard way:
A friend and I went to the gunshow several years ago and picked up some 30 round mags for our Ruger 9mm's (my P89DC, his P94). We went to the local gravel pit/firing line with another friend to try out the two-handed, two-gunned, Hollywood stunt. The other friend asked if he could try it first and we relented. BIG mistake. He fired them as fast as he could, with little or no regard for keeping the guns aimed at the backstop. While we were reloading to try it ourselves, a guy pulls up on a 4-wheeler and tells us that rounds were striking the trees near his mobile home down the road from the pit. We apologized, admonished our buddy, packed up, and went home for the day.
Lesson learned: If you're going to try it, be cognizant of recoil and of keeping the muzzles pointed at the target before pulling the trigger! Don't try to turn them into FA bullet hoses.
Frank
Let me tell you a story about learning the hard way:
A friend and I went to the gunshow several years ago and picked up some 30 round mags for our Ruger 9mm's (my P89DC, his P94). We went to the local gravel pit/firing line with another friend to try out the two-handed, two-gunned, Hollywood stunt. The other friend asked if he could try it first and we relented. BIG mistake. He fired them as fast as he could, with little or no regard for keeping the guns aimed at the backstop. While we were reloading to try it ourselves, a guy pulls up on a 4-wheeler and tells us that rounds were striking the trees near his mobile home down the road from the pit. We apologized, admonished our buddy, packed up, and went home for the day.
Lesson learned: If you're going to try it, be cognizant of recoil and of keeping the muzzles pointed at the target before pulling the trigger! Don't try to turn them into FA bullet hoses.
Frank
"He fired them as fast as he could, with little or no regard for keeping the guns aimed at the backstop."
I can't for the life of me, imagine how anyone could get any enjoyment out of simply firing a gun. Not hitting anything, not trying to hit anything, they just fire a gun to fire a gun.
That would be as thrilling to me as standing there flushing a toilet.
I have seen people go out to shoot and just fire a gun into the ground and call that shooting. I once went to a shooting range at Angeles Crest Forest and there much have been fifty people shooting, with no targets out and no way to put a target out without being cut down by gunfire. They were just happily standing there firing guns of all kinds into the ground. Our local machine gun dealer has taken me out a few times; same thing. He just fires the gun, for the sake of firing the gun I don't get it at all. This would be the same to me as sitting in the driveway racing the engine on a car and never taking it out on the road. You would be burning gas and making noise without accomplishing a thing.
I can't for the life of me, imagine how anyone could get any enjoyment out of simply firing a gun. Not hitting anything, not trying to hit anything, they just fire a gun to fire a gun.
That would be as thrilling to me as standing there flushing a toilet.
I have seen people go out to shoot and just fire a gun into the ground and call that shooting. I once went to a shooting range at Angeles Crest Forest and there much have been fifty people shooting, with no targets out and no way to put a target out without being cut down by gunfire. They were just happily standing there firing guns of all kinds into the ground. Our local machine gun dealer has taken me out a few times; same thing. He just fires the gun, for the sake of firing the gun
I don't get it at all. This would be the same to me as sitting in the driveway racing the engine on a car and never taking it out on the road. You would be burning gas and making noise without accomplishing a thing.- Status
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