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Old 08-04-2009, 10:14 PM
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You can hardly apply modern ideas (no matter how much better they may be) to eras that predate them. Elmer Keith may have kept his finger on the trigger, but I don't think anyone here is going to suggest they know guns better than he did.

Also, quite frankly I don't think any of us are in a position to be criticising a Navy SEAL on his weapons handling.
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Old 08-04-2009, 11:10 PM
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You can hardly apply modern ideas (no matter how much better they may be) to eras that predate them. Elmer Keith may have kept his finger on the trigger, but I don't think anyone here is going to suggest they know guns better than he did.

Also, quite frankly I don't think any of us are in a position to be criticising a Navy SEAL on his weapons handling.
I just though Navy SEALs were trained to keep their booger hooks off the bang switch, is all.

I've seen soldiers in Vietnam who kept their fingers under the trigger guard, not sure if that was a training procedure though. And FBI Agents were taught to draw their Glocks like that because of the long trigger pull. The accidental discharge was known as "Glock Foot" because you typically lost a toe when you made this mistake.
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Old 08-04-2009, 11:11 PM
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BTW, do you think anyone else could photoshop their head onto that Navy SEAL?
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Old 08-04-2009, 11:21 PM
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booger hooks off the bang switch, is all.
What the hell is a Booger Hook or Bang Switch?
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Old 08-04-2009, 11:22 PM
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Your finger is a booger hook, for obvious reasons. The bang switch is the trigger, for obvious reasons. Never heard that expression before?
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Old 08-04-2009, 11:35 PM
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No. Looked up Booger Hook on the Urban Dictionary and found out what it means. Sill don't know what a bang switch means. But i can probably guess.
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Old 08-05-2009, 12:24 AM
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I wonder if that SEAL was credited in the movie...
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Old 08-05-2009, 12:48 AM
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No. Looked up Booger Hook on the Urban Dictionary and found out what it means. Still don't know what a bang switch means. But i can probably guess.
The gun's trigger, because the gun goes *bang* when you "switch" it. Make sense now?
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Old 08-05-2009, 12:57 AM
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The gun's trigger, because the gun goes *bang* when you "switch" it. Make sense now?
I though of that but i was not sure. Man, I'm dumb.
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