northernbird

Oh man! this has been a marathon reading all these stories.. absolutely hilarious though. So heres my contribution. Long time back, went camping with some friends. We were camped at the top of this ridge that had a wedge that jutted out into a swamp.. off that side it was about a 45 degree angle down to the swamp. After much drinking we noticed we were running out of firewood and decided the huge completely dead tree at the tip of the wedge would make alot of great firewood. The tree was actually a couple feet down the slope, and standing on the top of the hill you could just get a good swing on it with the axe extended. Yeah this is the perfect tree.. So my two buddies and I took turns chopping.. about an hour or so later we were getting close to the end. Now recall that this tree is at the end of a wedge shaped chunk of high ground.. and its around 2:30am, pitch dark, the only light is from the camp fire back where we are camping.. Not sure if all the chopping was starting to work the alcohol out or what but we started taking alot fewer swings with the axe before passing it to the next guy and taking several large steps back to try and watch the top of the tree.. Well as luck would have it I was the guy on the axe when the tree started to tip. Did I mention that this tree was not well balanced? Or that all the bigger limbs left on this dead tree were on our wedge shaped escape route side? no?, thats weird no one seemed to notice it that night either.. So I'm swinging away when I hear my buddy scream RUN!!!!! I drop the axe and look up to see this huge fricken tree start to ever so slightly tip toward me... Run? Hell yes I ran! I ran as hard as I could thinking I had about 5 seconds left to live. That tree coming down sounded light a freight train. When it hit the ground (about 10 feet to my left) the ground shook and its completely dead branches exploded in every direction. I got knocked down, but fortunately escaped without any serious wounds. I had only made it about 2/3rds of the way to safety when it hit the ground.. still makes my heart race thinking about that night. NEVER do that.

This is an awesome topic. I've had the same issue, and being a new pistol shooter was wondering if this was just a product of my choice of pistol or if I was actually doing something not quite right.. Secondly, I've been kinda trying to figure out why when I see my front sight lift, that it wasnt going up straight.. always went up to the right.. haha.. I think this answered both questions for me. Cant wait to get out and see what I see. Thanks folks!

Brian, If I understand you correctly, your saying theres really not much of a difference between the sight focus for a 5yrd shot or a 25yrd shot.. in both cases your focused on where your sights are going to appear when you are in your index position. I think that makes sense to me.

Being new to 3 gun myself I bought 2 sheets of kydex for about 10 bucks total and made 6 in a matter of a couple short nights work. Was pretty fun and super easy. Even better, they work great for a new guy. I've only got a couple bucks invested in them, rather than the $300 it would have cost me to get the nice aluminum ones.