Shooting advice by Clint Smith, Director of Thunder Ranch

      


      Clint Smith, Director of Thunder Ranch, is a drill
      instructor (Thunder Ranch is a firearms training facility in Arizona).
      Here are a few of his observation on tactics, firearms, self defense
      and life as we know it in the civilized world.

      Never let someone or thing that threatens you get inside arms length
      and never say I got a gun.  If you feel you need to use deadly
      force for heaven’s sake let the first sound they hear be the safety
      clicking off and they shouldn't have time to hear anything after that
      if you are doing your job.


      The average response time of a 911 call is over 3 minutes....the
      response time of a .44 magnum is 1400 feet per second.'


      The most important rule in a gunfight is:  "Always win and cheat
      If necessary."


      "Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way."


      "Make your  attacker advance through a wall of bullets. You may get
      killed with your own gun, but he'll have to beat you to death with it,
      cause it's going to be empty."


      "If you're not  shootin', you should be loadin'.  If you're not
      loadin', you should be movin',  if you're not movin',  someone's gonna
      cut your head off and put it on a stick."


      "When you reload in low light encounters, don't put your
      Flashlight in your back pocket. If you light yourself up, you'll look
      like an angel or the tooth fairy and you're gonna be one of 'em pretty
      soon."

      "Do something - It may be wrong, but do something."

      "Shoot what's available, as long as it's available, until something
      else becomes available."

      "If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's
      ridiculous. If you have a gun, what in the hell do you have to be
      paranoid for."

      "Don't shoot fast, unless you also shoot good."

      "You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will
      work, but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head
      is pretty much the universal language."

      "You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you
      live depends on how well you do it."

      "You cannot save the planet but you may be able to save yourself and
      your family."

      "Thunder Ranch will be here as long as you'll have us or until
      someone makes us go away, and either way, it will be  exciting."

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