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Using Fred's Guide to Becoming a Rifleman to get you to thinking #5

Started by Old Dog, December 01, 2007, 06:38:50 PM

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Old Dog

December 01, 2007, 06:38:50 PM
The most important safety rule:

a.  unloaded and grounded

b.  finger off the trigger

c.  know your backstop

d.  muzzle always in a safe direction

"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."

—Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle

didactic

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December 01, 2007, 07:33:37 PM
D.  Slam-dunk.  Prevents a disaster even in the event of almost any other mistake.
"If not us, who?  If not now, when?"  Ronald W. Reagan

wcmartin1

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December 01, 2007, 08:06:40 PM
Definitely "D".

Or as I originally learned it -

Never point your rifle at anything that you do not wish to destroy.
"Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by a race of slaves.  Sad alternative!  But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?" - George Washington - from a letter to a close friend after the events of April 19, 1775

"There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our (the United States) overthrow.  Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter.  From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.  I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing." - Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837

Old Dog

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December 03, 2007, 09:32:50 PM
D it is.  As the guide says, even if a mistake is made and a round goes off then it goes where no one is at as long as the muzzle is pointed in a safe direction.
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."

—Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle
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