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In a word "scanner."
I bought a police scanner at a yard sale, because I was always interested in what the police are doing. That $150 changed my life.
By all the typical measures I live in a sleepy rural area, with a non-existent crime rate.
Even though the crappy little antenna on the scanner only pulled in traffic that was less than 15 miles from my home. I was surprised, that my community that I once thought was so peaceful, was almost always bustling with crime.
The scanner almost never shut up from 10pm to about 4am. Weekends were the worst, but it happened almost every night. The exceptions were only very cold nights, below zero or lower, but there was usually quite a bit of traffic.
There were break-ins, convenience store hold ups, man with a gun calls, intruders, stalkers, prowlers, car-jackings, theft, all sorts of assault and battery, etc. Most of which did not make it into the local news. The convenience store hold ups and car-jackings do make it into the news for a brief cycle, but most everything else did not.
About the same time Idaho passed a shall issue CC permit. I applied, and took some classes, and got my permit. I had a Smith 645 at the time and carried it a bit, but it was huge and sharp edged. I bought a box stock P12-45 out of the paper. An officers model 1911 derivative, that holds 13 rounds. I had cut my teeth on a 1911, and figured the extra rounds would be a good thing.
I practiced about 3 times a year, out behind the shop, probably 150 rounds a year. I didn't have night sights, a flashlight, or much of any preperaton but a gun and an extra magazine. I hadn't thought much about the science of being a victim, although I have always, since a young age, been very aware of my surroundings.
I went on thusly, fat, dumb and happy, until I started IDPA. After a couple of matches, I figured out how to carry the P14-45, figuring that if it helps in a sport simulating real self defense that it might help in real self defense. Surely it wouldn't hurt.
I'm still with the P14-45. I have made 3 holsters over the years and traded a RRT to Beverly McCord for one of her beautiful custom holsters, to get the cant I wanted to carry the P14 full time, winter/summer, long pants and shorts.
After reading most of the self defense books available and making one trip to Front Sight, I'm more prepared than I used to be.
When I started IDPA it was strictly to practice those skills that I might need someday. I'd already been shot at in the military, and didn't like it much. I figured more practice was a good thing.
After 5 years in IDPA, I'm still practicing, but also enjoying the sport for the sport of shooting. I've started competing locally with shotgun and carbine too. I even bought a long range tactical rifle and practice with that too. We have awesome matches here in podunk Idaho.
As for IDPA, I still think through each stage as if it were a real attack and figure out all the options available to me. I think it is a good thing to use the stages that someone worked hard on as a thinking exercise. I'm still stuck in practice mode. I only wear a vest to matches if I'm currently wearing a vest due to the weather. Mostly I shoot from an untucked shirt, knowing full well I'm giving up time to the vest wearers. But it is my choice. Some stages I can stay with the experts, but some stages, my practice mode makes me slower. I don't mind.
What was the original question. I better stop rambling.
Ken Reed
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