PN>  Kinda sounds like most cops are...just like most people .
 JT> we just do like most folks.  After we hit something...we
 JT> suavely turn and say.
 JT> I _meant_ to do that.
Exactly.  Been known to do that myself. :-)  Many years ago there was an 
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Captain named Dan Combs.  Finest pistol shot I've 
seen before or since.  I believe he actually had to try to miss a target.  At 
the time I was working communications and just carrying whatever old pistol 
happened to be handy when I got dressed (plainclothes).  One evening Dan came 
into the radio room and spotted my pistol of the day - a chrome plated 
Baretta 1934 .32 ACP.  He went ballistic.
The next morning I drove to the police supply store and plunked down $67.10 
for a brand new S&W Chief's Special (price included a holster and two boxes 
of factory reloads).  That evening Dan came in demanding to see what kind of 
pimp's gun I was carrying this time.  I handed him the Chief and he just 
grinned from ear to ear.  When we both got off duty at 6:00 A.M., he said 
"come on, let's go try out your new gun.  I've got a bunch of reloads and we 
can take my cruiser."  Our favorite informal shooting spot was a municipal 
landfill a couple miles outside of town.  When we pulled up and got out, I 
spotted a five gallon bucket sitting about 200 yards from us.  I grabbed the 
.38 off my belt and just snapped one off - no aiming, no coordinated trigger 
squeeze - just point and pull.  "BLAM!. . . . plunk."  Dan's jaw dropped then 
he said "do that again!"  "Naw, I don't want to make you feel too bad."  
Truth be known, I probably couldn't have done that again if I'd had a 
shooting bench, sand bags and a bushel basket full of cartridges.
As you said, "I _meant_ to do that". :-)
Regards.  Cloyce.
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