Yup, you will probably get one chance to get off x number of shots. Any failure and yup - you done. For LEGAL SD event.
Can anyone cite any example of a defensive shooting that required more than one mag by the civilian involved? I thought Ayoob had looked into that at one time and found it had never happened.
Paul Harrell has said it is either never occurred or so extremely rare that it's not even something that can be found through research, and I'd trust Paul on this.
<>It depends on the environment. Double the load, if in Houston, Austin, Atlanta or Memphis.
If the .22 bullet doesn't get their attention, the burn from the gunpowder escaping the barrel will.
Yet Active Self Protection is clear about the fact that civilian shootings are over almost instantly. The bad guys run away. It's not your job to stick around, etc.Watch the videos on the Active Self-Protection YT Channel. You'll see enough malfunction issues there to make carrying a spare mag as a spare part a necessary component....
Yet Active Self Protection is clear about the fact that civilian shootings are over almost instantly. The bad guys run away. It's not your job to stick around, etc.
Their bottom line advice is that no one who isn't required to carry a gun for their job needs to carry any spare ammo. They claim to have reviewed over 10,000 videos of self-defense shootings and have never seen one where a "civilian" needed a reload. Never.
Yet Active Self Protection is clear about the fact that civilian shootings are over almost instantly. The bad guys run away. It's not your job to stick around, etc.
Their bottom line advice is that no one who isn't required to carry a gun for their job needs to carry any spare ammo. They claim to have reviewed over 10,000 videos of self-defense shootings and have never seen one where a "civilian" needed a reload. Never.
I carry one backup mag on me, and there are four more in my vehicle in my get-home bag. If I am more than 50 miles from home, there's going to be a rifle and ammo in the vehicle as well as seasonal get-home stuff & boots.This is a commonly asked question, how much is ammo is enough? Springfield Amory wrote up an article on this and even featured Magholder, let us know what you think below.
How Much Ammo Should I Carry? - The Armory Life
Whenever I see a news headline detailing the “arsenal” police found when making an arrest, I tend to cringe. As someone who works with guns for a living, I go through my fair share of ammo. I’ve got more random mismatched rounds in half-empty boxes — ammo I don’t even own guns for anymore — Read...www.thearmorylife.com
Yet Active Self Protection is clear about the fact that civilian shootings are over almost instantly. The bad guys run away. It's not your job to stick around, etc.
Their bottom line advice is that no one who isn't required to carry a gun for their job needs to carry any spare ammo. They claim to have reviewed over 10,000 videos of self-defense shootings and have never seen one where a "civilian" needed a reload. Never.
True. Yet that doesn't change their observation. (They don't really advise not carrying spare ammo; they just say it's not needed.) Even if it's the good guy who loses his magazine, just getting the gun out and firing one shot always causes the bad guys to scatter like roaches when the light comes on.Plenty of videos on ASP (good guys or perps) where a malfunction was bad enough or a mag fell out of the gun
FBI states that 2.4 shots per shoot out is the average....Yet Active Self Protection is clear about the fact that civilian shootings are over almost instantly. The bad guys run away. It's not your job to stick around, etc.
Their bottom line advice is that no one who isn't required to carry a gun for their job needs to carry any spare ammo. They claim to have reviewed over 10,000 videos of self-defense shootings and have never seen one where a "civilian" needed a reload. Never.
True. Yet that doesn't change their observation. (They don't really advise not carrying spare ammo; they just say it's not needed.) Even if it's the good guy who loses his magazine, just getting the gun out and firing one shot always causes the bad guys to scatter like roaches when the light comes on.
I can think of cases they've shown where a reload could have been necessary if the fight had continued, e.g. the vehicle-to-vehicle shooting that happened with the victim in the new Ford Lightning. The good guy was stuck because the active safety systems in the truck shut down the truck rather than allow him to ram the vehicle in front or jump a curb to escape the incoming bullets. He was stuck and couldn't move. He might have conceivably needed a great volume of continuing fire if the bad guys had gotten out of their vehicle to finish the job. But that didn't happen. The bad guys emptied their guns, hitting nothing that they wanted to hit, and then peeled outta there.
In civilian street shootings, no one ever wants to stick around long enough for anyone to reload.
Big caveat - If the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel ever manages to gain a foothold in Texas, their modus operandi will cause me to reject my current way of thinking. We'll see long firefights because they really, really love sticking around and killing lots of people. If that happens, I'll stop carrying zero reloads and start carrying more than one.
Big caveat - If the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel ever manages to gain a foothold in Texas, their modus operandi will cause me to reject my current way of thinking. We'll see long firefights because they really, really love sticking around and killing lots of people. If that happens, I'll stop carrying zero reloads and start carrying more than one.