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In article <19609@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
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#In article <28549@sybase.sybase.com> mtxinu!sybase.sybase.com!thorick@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Thorick Chow) writes:
##WHy is it that many pistol target shooters put their non-shooting
##hand in their pockets ?
#
#It seems like a good place to put it.  TV technicians working around
#high voltage keep one hand tucked into the belt behind their backs..
#
#I think your real question is, why are they shooting one-handed?
#That must be because the official rules of their particular competition
#require it.  Of course for defense shooting one uses both hands by
#preference.
#
#[MODERATOR:  Another consideration.  Folks with a, hmmm, curvaceous 
#figure like mine tend to be front heavy.  Standing with one's arm 
#straight out holding a few pounds of pistol can further throw off
#one's center of gravity.  Anything to get my weight off on the other
#side for counterbalance is desirable.... (for precise balancing I 
#suppose I should stuff a couple of pizzas in a backpack....)]

It's a shooting (stance) style. I was at the range when a couple of guys
came in to shoot a Glock .40, and that was the "style" they used. The
security patrol guy stopped in, and he commented on it; he told me
the name of it, but I can't remember what it was. It seems like it's
a German style, but I may be confusing that with the comments about
how their full-length leather coats made them look like Gestapo
agents. :-)

Their groups weren't bad, considering the pistol they were using ;-),
but it wasn't competition quality.

				James

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