Originally Posted by
GJM
Consider this scenario -- your job is to call hits on steel, using a spitting scope, at a precision event. The shooting position is prone, and you are behind the shooter. When a shooter goes prone, the muzzle of his pistol is pointed directly at your chest. Do you:
1) flee the area, because it is unsafe
2) tell the shooter he is muzzling you
3) continue spotting, with the muzzle pointed at your chest, because "a holstered handgun is a safe handgun"
4) move slightly so the muzzle isn't pointing at you
I would pick choice 4, and assume most others would do the same. Maybe I am excessively risk adverse, but I do my best to stay out of the arc of fixed wing propellers, avoid helicopter tail rotors, duck my head under turning main rotors, avoid kneeling down behind cars and trucks with their engine idling, and a number of other things that have the potential to hurt or kill me.