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One of my numerous phone calls this time of year, included a guy out East with whom I have shot a time or two. He has a problem I had not even given thought to much.
He was in an auto wreck but came out OK fortunately except - the ''usual'' neck trouble after - this happened approx a week ago I think.
But also and here's the kicker - he has pain and severe limitation of mobility in both arms - he cannot raise either to even 70º (actually from what he said, more like 50º ) in front of him (or to side)! In fact thinking about it I suspect his spinal trauma has affected him around the lower cervical/upper dorsals and (I hope temporarily) screwed his nerve supply to relevant muscles. That plus, maybe adhesive capsulitis - and that takes ages to get right if it is the case.
Well a bit over a year ago I had this sort of problem with my left shoulder - to hold gun weak handed, had to use strong hand to support it - tho it would elevate high enough with the help so not as bad as his.
Thinking on his situation tho - heck - he can't get a gun up into a sighting position! Yikes! He has tried but falls short by a lot. He has tried leaning back to artificially raise his hands but even that is hardly workable. He is freaked out by it!
Well so would I be. Discussing it all, it seemed his only choice for right now was practice plus using retention hold and point shooting, which in fact he is quite good at but - can't say we expect to lose the ability to raise a gun properly.
This opened quite a can of worms for me as to how I'd cope - and I guess we could extend this also to an injury sustained in a confrontation, where also we could not raise a gun high enough. We would have to have some alternative method to use.
Only thing that came to mind was - using strong hand - lean to weak side a lot, with arm only slightly away from side and squint down sights, firing a bit ''gangsta'' style. This really got me thinking!!!
He was in an auto wreck but came out OK fortunately except - the ''usual'' neck trouble after - this happened approx a week ago I think.
But also and here's the kicker - he has pain and severe limitation of mobility in both arms - he cannot raise either to even 70º (actually from what he said, more like 50º ) in front of him (or to side)! In fact thinking about it I suspect his spinal trauma has affected him around the lower cervical/upper dorsals and (I hope temporarily) screwed his nerve supply to relevant muscles. That plus, maybe adhesive capsulitis - and that takes ages to get right if it is the case.
Well a bit over a year ago I had this sort of problem with my left shoulder - to hold gun weak handed, had to use strong hand to support it - tho it would elevate high enough with the help so not as bad as his.
Thinking on his situation tho - heck - he can't get a gun up into a sighting position! Yikes! He has tried but falls short by a lot. He has tried leaning back to artificially raise his hands but even that is hardly workable. He is freaked out by it!
Well so would I be. Discussing it all, it seemed his only choice for right now was practice plus using retention hold and point shooting, which in fact he is quite good at but - can't say we expect to lose the ability to raise a gun properly.
This opened quite a can of worms for me as to how I'd cope - and I guess we could extend this also to an injury sustained in a confrontation, where also we could not raise a gun high enough. We would have to have some alternative method to use.
Only thing that came to mind was - using strong hand - lean to weak side a lot, with arm only slightly away from side and squint down sights, firing a bit ''gangsta'' style. This really got me thinking!!!
