Justin's story is a great learning opportunity. Sun Tzu wrote "When the strike of the hawk breaks the body of it's prey . . . it is because of timing." Timing learnings point to openings he may have had where he would have been at greater advantage than where he ended up. The delay until the BG discovered the empty holster was fateful IMO.
As already noted, distance favors the good guy. Is there anything more close to an absolute civilian pistol fight rule?
I don't see any firm learnings about choice of pistol really. The ease of operating the 1911 trigger may have been an advantage as much as a grip safety was a disadvantage. Or as already noted, the wound may have been the whole story as far as running this gun or any. Those sorts of things we will never really know.
I do think it useful to consider his mode of carry. As soon as the BG had the drop on him through marching them inside, the strong side hip carry was not very advantageous. IMO, here was a scenario where appendix carry would have added options to strike from surprise when the BG screened himself from the front of Justin's body. Whereas I find it harder to create settings where hip carry is significantly more discrete to covertly access.
My thanks to Justin for this valuable story.
Last edited by JHC; 01-24-10 at 19:14.
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