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Offline Richard S

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #60 on: October 19, 2014, 01:31:43 PM »
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If you have to fight multiple perps armed with firearms, there seems almost no way you could prevail.

You may survive, if you're lucky.

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I tend to agree.

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #61 on: October 20, 2014, 12:17:57 AM »
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If you have to fight multiple perps armed with firearms, there seems almost no way you could prevail.

You may survive, if you're lucky.

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I tend to agree.

http://www.rohrbaughforum.com/index.php?topic=3404.msg36724;topicseen#msg36724

Oh my. I remember that story! Your wife is, of course, probably right. If you had produced a weapon, and failed to kill every single one of the new arrivals, you would be dead.

Maybe you would have gotten them though. My money is on you.

-You have balls of the finest brass sir! I salute you.  8)

This is here, last night.



Ghetto bird!!! He hovered there for thirty minutes, a frankly stunning period based on my training and experience. He orbited for an hour-plus. That means, "We're serious."

Who says that they're "solar-powered"?!?!  ;)


 

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #62 on: October 20, 2014, 10:51:33 AM »
Those of us who weren't there can only imagine what things were flying through your mind with that going on... :o :o     With all the information about your surrounding area, people, history...W   O   W !!  Sleep much after that??
Have you found out what the commotion was about?

If it happens again, call me - I'll let you borrow my Vietnam era trench gun - with bayonet attached - has a FANTASTIC visual impact. 8) 8)

Offline JoshA

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #63 on: October 20, 2014, 02:06:03 PM »
Sent PM Douglas.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

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English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #64 on: October 20, 2014, 02:47:55 PM »
Those of us who weren't there can only imagine what things were flying through your mind with that going on... :o :o     With all the information about your surrounding area, people, history...W   O   W !!  Sleep much after that??
Have you found out what the commotion was about?

If it happens again, call me - I'll let you borrow my Vietnam era trench gun - with bayonet attached - has a FANTASTIC visual impact. 8) 8)

I appreciate the offer, we're covered!  8)

Obviously a perp search, but I was off, not my call, no radio, so no idea of the details.
The worst part was that we weren't out on it. -And the best part was that we weren't out on it.  ;)

Either way, no big deal.

The only thing that made it worthy of note was the extended hover. I mention it here because that made me ponder how, had I walked up to the store for milk, I might have ended up in the middle of whatever.

And that would be just fine, but I know I'd chuckle an, "Of course..." to myself if I had the snub on me instead of one of the semi autos.  ???

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #65 on: October 20, 2014, 04:11:34 PM »
Whatsa matter U ?????  You don't like the "heart in your throat" feeling???   

And he answers...YES  !!! I DO love my "heart in my throat"    ;D ;D ;D


I had guessed you were retired LEO....didn't know you were still having fun. 
Thank you for your service. 


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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #66 on: October 20, 2014, 04:28:39 PM »
Douglas:

What Hedrok just said.  Thank you indeed for your service.  Stay safe and "watch six."
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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #67 on: October 20, 2014, 04:52:15 PM »
Thanks for the kind words fellas.  :-[

-Entirely unnecessary, I'm just a cog in a wheel.

I do have the time to retire, but what would I do then, get a job?  ;) 

I'm kidding. I'm fortunate to be in a spot that I love and have some success.

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #68 on: October 20, 2014, 07:47:53 PM »
Special Ops in NYC is not just a cog in the wheel in my book; especially, for now at least, since my two granddaughters round trip across Central Park to and from school almost every day.

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #69 on: October 20, 2014, 08:42:35 PM »
Thumbs. That's all I have going for me.

If the dog could drive, I'd be out on my butt.  ;D

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #70 on: October 20, 2014, 08:56:15 PM »

Don't forget that you can always retire but you can't always go to full hover.

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #71 on: October 20, 2014, 09:23:17 PM »

...you can't always go to full hover.

No one has ever even let me try. :'( 

When we've been lucky enough to get a ride, we pretty much just sit in the back. Some crews that were very accustomed to canines on board were comfortable with a head poked up front; others... less so. Also depends on the type, I suppose. Obviously, some are pretty tight.

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #72 on: October 20, 2014, 09:35:15 PM »

Do you train Malinois?

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #73 on: October 20, 2014, 09:42:45 PM »
We have some GSD/Mal mixes in the unit. Off the top of my head, I don't think we have any straight Mallies right now. Many of the other agencies that we train/train with certainly do. A buddy of mine in another unit just re-treaded with a Dutchie.

Better him than me!

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Re: Best caliber for CCW?
« Reply #74 on: October 20, 2014, 09:57:11 PM »


A good friend bred Mallies in N.C. but I think they became too much for her to handle, especially long distance.