Merry Mozambique Ever-body !

[Katya Mullethov]

http://vimeo.com/17828284

And nooooooooo , you shouldn't just walk away .
You MUST call 911 after the fact and wait , and wait , and wait , as ultimately you might be required to bear the heat ,and more importantly , the expense for what you have done .

[spin]

1. Obviously much depends on where you live and what the laws are ...

however in this situation, if the victim was allowed to legally carry a concealed weapon, there should be no problem. Obviously since she was grabbed, running away was not an option.

But I agree she should call the police even if all three of her shots missed and the bad guy ran.

[GreenStormCloud]

2. That is one ice-cold woman.

What does she do for a living, Mossad assassin?

Walk, don't run away. Act like nothing happened. Dump the gun where it will never be found. Use your backi-up gun if something else happens. Get new primary gun from home. Relax, eat delivery pizza.

Just for those who can't tell, the above paragraph is NOT intended as serious advice.

[Katya Mullethov]

6. I just noticed that place is in Central Texas

If they have those 10 hour CCW classes up there on Sundays , that would have saved me way over a thousand bucks ! It's only a four hour round trip , but it's worth it . After all , that's what we're here for .

[Euromutt]

3. It rather brings to mind an old joke

A lieutenant and his platoon sergeant are observing their platoon of recruits at the pistol range.
"You know, sir," says the sergeant, "I have to say I'm a little concerned over what Jones used to do before he enlisted."
"Why's that, sergeant?"
"Well, have you noticed that every time he fires a string of shots, he takes out his handkerchief and wipes his prints off the weapon?"

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4. I like the 3rd and final coup de grace shot...

kind'a reminds me of the "brief case" scene from "Collateral". B-)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmKR6evZRQQ

[one-eyed fat man]

5. The Mozambique Drill

The Mozambique Drill, also known as the Failure to Stop Drill, or Failure Drill, is a close-quarter shooting technique in which the shooter fires twice into the torso of a target (known as a double tap to the center of mass), momentarily assesses the hits, then follows them up with a carefully aimed shot to the head of the target.

The third shot should be aimed to destroy the brain or, for a more immediate effect, the brain stem, killing the target and preventing the target from retaliating. The drill was added to the modern technique of gunfighting by Jeff Cooper based on the experience of one of his students, Mike Rousseau, while on duty in Mozambique. Rousseau was later killed in action in the Rhodesian War (1964-1979).

Sometimes advocated as a counter to body armor.

[Euromutt]

7. Some additional detail on that

The incident the Mozambique drill is named after occurred in 1974. Rousseau was working as a mercenary for the Portuguese when, following the "Carnation Revolution" in Portugal, thousands of Portuguese colonists were getting out of Mozambique as fast as they could. During fighting around Lourenço Marques airport (now Maputo International), Rousseau rounded a corner and encountered a FRELIMO guerrilla armed with an AK variant. With the two men only some seven or eight meters apart, Rousseau drew his 9mm Browning Hi-Power and fired two rounds (FMJ, natch) into the guerrilla's chest. When the hits had no immediate discernable effect, Rousseau tried to follow up with a shot to the head, but due to the stress, he jerked the trigger and the round went into the guerrilla's lower neck, when it severed the spinal cord.

Cooper attributed the initial "Failure to Stop" to the fact that Rousseau was using a 9mm; Cooper was a diehard M1911A1-chambered-in-.45 ACP fanboy, and the nicest thing he ever said about the Browning Hi-Power was that it's a very decent gun if you have no option but to use 9mm. That was a few decades ago, though; the 9x19mm has come a long way in the interim.

[one-eyed fat man]

8. Risky business

Don't want to start a 9mm vs. .45 flame war! Or an argument whether or not the 1911 was pinnacle of John Browning's handgun designs or the P-35, which, in reality, was the work of Dieudonne Saive. It is certainly one of the most iconic military pistol designs having been used by over 50 countries.

While it is a certainty that a modern 9mm might expand (barring military organizations constrained by the Hague and Geneva conventions) the .45 never shrinks. As a practical matter, nothing you can fire from a handgun is a 100% stopper.

One of the problems with recruits now in combat is unrealistic expectations of their weapons effects. Having been conditioned by movie and TV special effects to seeing bodies flying back from the impact they are somewhat dumbfounded when that doesn't happen.

My adherence to the 1911 platform is not because of some belief that the .45 is some wonder cartridge, but because after using one for a bit over 50 years the habits are so ingrained that using something different under the pressure of an engagement might result in confusion. It has been some years, but in my experience, the response to sudden and surprise threats came from reflex, not rational thought. The reflex was there by virtue of military training and practice.

Standing in front of the gun safe wondering what you'll wear today like Imelda perusing shoes is the wrong approach to being armed.

[oneshooter]

9. A 9mm is a 45 set on"stun". n/t