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COLUMNS DECEMBER 2009
     
     
HANDGUNS
Massad Ayoob

 

What Can You See In the Mirror (Image)?
Suppose you woke up tomorrow with your opposite
hand dominant. Could you protect yourself?

 
             
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  Arrows show spent brass from double tap as Jon Strayer smokes the course with
Glock 17, shooting his first southpaw match.
 
                     
 

Are you right-handed? Suppose tomorrow morning you strapped a straight-draw holster on your left hip and became a newborn southpaw. (Vice versa if you’re a lefty.) I call it “mirror image” shooting, and I’ve found a lot of value in it.

Almost 30 years ago, I was en route to Ray Chapman’s advanced pistol course in Missouri when I sustained a crushing comminuted fracture of my right index finger at the base joint, in a freak accident. I showed up in a cast from fingertip to forearm and shot the whole thing left-hand only. I learned a lot about “wounded officer” manipulations and return of fire … and I learned more than that.

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