November 19, 2012
Taking Aim
I took my new Smith & Wesson 38 special out for some target
practice and I was disappointed to find that the laser isn’t worth a hoot in
sunlight. I guess if a daytime intruder comes to the house I’m just going to
have to ask him to come back sometime after dark. When I used the gun sight I
kept shooting high, but when I started aiming for the target’s knees, lo and
behold I nailed him in his midsection. As dusk approached I was finally able to
use the laser and I transformed into a real Annie Oakley and I guarantee that
target will never bother anyone ever again. “For
though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The
weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they
have divine power to demolish strongholds.” (2 Cor 10:3-4 NIV)
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Gail;
-----I was hoping you would tell us about that laser sight. I put one on a pellet pistol a few years ago thinking I was going to welt every stray cat around. The only cat to feel its sting, though, was sleeping under my truck where the laser dot shined strong in the shadow. I could see the dot in sunlight if I searched really, really hard right where the pistol was aiming. But if I knew right where it was aiming I wouldn’t need the laser sight, because if that was the wrong spot I'd just move the pistol until where I knew it was aiming was the right spot. I didn’t shoot much after that. But I always wondered if a more expensive laser sight would work better in the daytime. I guess not.
-----Your target won’t bother anyone again. But my stray cat didn’t go away in spite of a pellet welt on his belly and a knot on his head from bouncing off a truck axle. However, the world is now missing a few grasshoppers and a couple wasps, who happened to be resting in shadows. That’s what this little gem was made for! Still, I really didn’t have time to wander around shooting insects.
-----Not that I should have made time either, but the wasps take over your place before you know it! These things are the ones with more black band than yellow. The more yellow ones are the North American variety - more territorial, will sting quicker, and tend to nest further apart from each other. The more black banded ones are European; they don’t really care how close their nests are to their neighbors. So they multiply like bad thoughts at a burlesque. I even see their nests running together. They wind up everywhere! Fast!! Pellet pistols are not effective. Ant and roach spray, on the other hand, fits the bill.
-----You’ve now learned your .38’s limitations, too. That Special blasts enough shock wave that if your aim does not send an intruder from your house in a bloody mess, the punch of its report should at least still the target for another chance. Yet, if you had intruders crawling in through all your doors and windows, you would need an AK-47 or an Uzzi. In our personal lives, it is important to pick off our erroneous thoughts and misguided ambitions before they breed like wasps, or entice bands like intruders. I’ve lived in a frame of mind destroyed by infestation of deceit. The Word of God is still the weapon of effect, but aiming with individual passages was feckless. I had to discern God’s more philosophical drift written into His Word and rather fumigate the whole mess with it at once. Then I could sit there with individual scriptures shooting down lone intruders as they tried to explore their way back into my cleaned up house.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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