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Plan9 · 11-13-2010, 08:09 AM

Mmm, there is "not looking" and then there is "not looking directly, gun up in your face (aka "workspace") so you can see it in your peripheral vision as you manipulate it." I don't look at the mag well when I'm reloading, but it's hanging out in the bottom third of my vision, blurry but clear enough to notice problems. I mean, the human eye moves faster than the human hand, so if you keep the gun up at eye level, focused down range, you should be keep one or the other in your peripheral vision and can switch quickly if needed. It's the best of both worlds, IMRO. That and manipulating your gun while at extension is way fuckin' awkward and tends to cause "oops, I dropped it" incidents.

Whatever works for the individual shooter, though. I'm sure plenty of guys can absolutely smoke me on a IDPA run by reloading with their exposed left nut.

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Regarding your addition:

Of course you're not looking at the gear shift when you shift but (depending on the car) you'd know if it suddenly turned purple and started spinning, right?

And then there's the age old tough guy argument: If you fuck up _whatever_, you might end up _inconvenienced_. If you fuck up _GI Joe task_, you might end up dead.

There's a pretty illuminating post at the M4C board about how a US Marine ended up in a wheel chair over this exact topic. It could have been any of us. Thanks, military.

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Also:

My perspective on what to have in my peripheral vision when manipulating a weapon is based on the chance that something will fuck up. I obviously don't workspace a gun when I'm rotating the selector lever from safe to semi. As an example of a fuck-up with magazines, there is a chance the top round could have slid out a bit (requiring a lead edge swipe inside the magwell to pop the wayward round), etc. It's hardly arguable that the magazine is the single most important part of any mag-fed fighting weapon and yet simultaneously the weakest link (designed to be cheap, relatively fragile, a consumable item). As such, it should be treated with extra scrutiny. Disclaimer: I'm retarded.

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11-13-2010, 08:09 AM	#16 (permalink)
Plan9 I Confess a Shiver	Mmm, there is "not looking" and then there is "not looking directly, gun up in your face (aka "workspace") so you can see it in your peripheral vision as you manipulate it." I don't look at the mag well when I'm reloading, but it's hanging out in the bottom third of my vision, blurry but clear enough to notice problems. I mean, the human eye moves faster than the human hand, so if you keep the gun up at eye level, focused down range, you should be keep one or the other in your peripheral vision and can switch quickly if needed. It's the best of both worlds, IMRO. That and manipulating your gun while at extension is way fuckin' awkward and tends to cause "oops, I dropped it" incidents. Whatever works for the individual shooter, though. I'm sure plenty of guys can absolutely smoke me on a IDPA run by reloading with their exposed left nut. ... Regarding your addition: Of course you're not looking at the gear shift when you shift but (depending on the car) you'd know if it suddenly turned purple and started spinning, right? And then there's the age old tough guy argument: If you fuck up _whatever_, you might end up _inconvenienced_. If you fuck up _GI Joe task_, you might end up dead. There's a pretty illuminating post at the M4C board about how a US Marine ended up in a wheel chair over this exact topic. It could have been any of us. Thanks, military. ... Also: My perspective on what to have in my peripheral vision when manipulating a weapon is based on the chance that something will fuck up. I obviously don't workspace a gun when I'm rotating the selector lever from safe to semi. As an example of a fuck-up with magazines, there is a chance the top round could have slid out a bit (requiring a lead edge swipe inside the magwell to pop the wayward round), etc. It's hardly arguable that the magazine is the single most important part of any mag-fed fighting weapon and yet simultaneously the weakest link (designed to be cheap, relatively fragile, a consumable item). As such, it should be treated with extra scrutiny. Disclaimer: I'm retarded. ... Uh... eh... I feel it totally necessary to state that I also make sure to properly index my penis on labia when entering a vagina. Slow is smooth, and smooth is OH YEAH. __________________ *Whatever you can carry.* "You should not drink... and bake." Last edited by Plan9; 11-13-2010 at 08:18 AM..