Not your normal self defense situation....

Airic · Mar 31, 2011

Took my little girls to the circus last weekend. Sitting in the front row for the first act: 2 tigers and a lion. One of the tigers was severly pissed that it had to perform. It occurred to me that if this pissed tiger found its way out of the 15ft fence around the ring, the girls and I were about the closest thing to it.

Kinda crazy what you think about sometimes when you keep your situational awareness up while carrying...

Might make a good IDPA stage next month... :lol:

Burk Cornelius · Mar 31, 2011

Airic said:
Might make a good IDPA stage next month... :lol:

We could call it "tiger by the tail"

jtischauser · Mar 31, 2011

I think a 1000 pound tiger may require a reload or two.

Raford · Mar 31, 2011

What would really suck would be sitting there with only a little pocket .380 and thinking about that 500 pound cat getting out of the cage!

Ever wish you would have brought a bigger gun?

dennishoddy · Mar 31, 2011

Shot placement is key

Airic · Mar 31, 2011

You see! all those things were running through my mind. I carry a G34 with this ammo, im pretty sure I could have stopped the cat....but for the last couple of months I had been considering switching to a pocket .380. Now I'm thinking I better go back to a G27 for compact carry

Raford · Mar 31, 2011

LOL! I couldn't help it. After Jesse's comments about stopping a large cat like that, my mind just naturally went to that worst case scenerio.

My normal carry is a Kimber Ultra Carry II in .40 S&W, loaded with 180 grain Speer Gold Dots, but I really don't know what kind of stopping power that would have on a big cat. (The .380 is just a back up gun). Especially considering that in India they carried .58 and larger caliber hand cannons shooting 500 plus grain bullets to stop the big cats.

It would be an interesting theme for a stage though....... Maybe a par time before you get eaten.

You may see this in a SCRAP USPSA match soon.

Airic · Mar 31, 2011

Raford said:
LOL! I couldn't help it. After Jesse's comments about stopping a large cat like that, my mind just naturally went to that worst case scenerio.

My normal carry is a Kimber Ultra Carry II in .40 S&W, loaded with 180 grain Speer Gold Dots, but I really don't know what kind of stopping power that would have on a big cat. (The .380 is just a back up gun). Especially considering that in India they carried .58 and larger caliber hand cannons shooting 500 plus grain bullets to stop the big cats.

It would be an interesting theme for a stage though....... Maybe a par time before you get eaten. You may see this in a SCRAP USPSA match soon.

Alright, well you guys use it in a USPSA match and I'll pitch it to Rod Snell for our (ITPSC) IDPA match. Hell, I use it in my USPSA match also and lets compare the stage we come up with

jtischauser · Mar 31, 2011

I think the guys at SCRAP are just crazy enough to get a real cat out there. Maybe we could call Top Shot and get a Limcat Razor Cat to use A's a prop gun?

ldp4570 · Apr 1, 2011

Short of a Howda pistol, not much else is going to stop one of those big cats when they are pissed.

okie-carbine · May 26, 2011

LOL that would be an awesome stage with a real lion.

oklaccer · Jun 2, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwD0ZkJYfC0&feature=related

Here is the scenario. How do you think you would handle it?

oklaccer · Jun 2, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoCzBb7zdb8
Or this?

Wall · Jun 4, 2011

oklaccer said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwD0ZkJYfC0&feature=related

Here is the scenario. How do you think you would handle it?

by shitting down both legs

KurtM · Jun 11, 2011

I can see it now "Stepping on the activator will release the HUGE jungle cat" :lol:

Scott Hearn · Jun 11, 2011

Here's another. Now this would have me cleaning my shorts!
When you have three scared grizzly cubs looking for momma, you know you are toast.

english kanigit · Sep 11, 2011

Big cats have a slight advantage up close...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18LP4DH2w3g

Ek

technetium-99m · Sep 11, 2011

Good lord, those are some pissed off animals.

I guess it's a darn good thing everyone in the hunting party has a rifle.

Ksmirk · Sep 11, 2011

I think I'll stick to shooting prairie dogs! F that crap. Later,

Kirk

dennishoddy · Sep 11, 2011

shooting animals is not much different than considering a self defense scenerio.
You can blow the heart/lungs into mush and the animal will still run 70 to a hundred yards.

Humans are not any different. Unless one gets a shot on the central nervous system, they can stay in the fight for a couple of seconds, no matter what caliber/bullet is used.