Ever wanted to write traffic tickets, investigate accidents and fine pedestrians for J-walking, but wanted to avoid months of boring police academy lectures and the possibility of actually risking your life?
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Oh hell no to all. I’ve had a carry permit since Christ was a kid. I was talking about this last Friday with a bud who’s been carrying for ever too. Originally it was a novelty. Not anymore, it’s self preservation. So on another note, You bastids that do carry need to practice at 5 feet. Meaning draw and shoot from the hip. Not as intuitive as it would seem. Don’t shoot steel that close. It shoots back. Gun hand shoots wide at the hip. You need to drill that shit. Preferably with a shot timer. Great advice from a fairly new site, The Tactical Hive. Good shit. Paging Lowell, Jump in.
Hey Brad! I just went to that site, watched a couple videos. Here’s one that has good advice.
https://tacticalhyve.com/retired-navy-seal-demonstrates-how-to-draw-a-handgun-from-a-holster/
Thanks guys – bookmarked that page.
They have a series on NPOA (Natural Point Of Aim) that elevated my shit immediately. Worth tracking down, and it will save yours and a loved ones life. Great place.
I listened to Greaseman Benelli for years – I already KNOW what it’s like, to strap on a gun, pin on a badge, & become… a LAWWWWWWWWWWMAN!!! 😎
http://www.greaseman.org/sounds/best_of/418%20-%20Lawman.mp3
HA!! I was a Beltway Bandit for many years. I had to go to DC hundreds of times for waste of time meetings discussing why things were late…because we were in these Fing meetings rather than working! The only upside was I could listen to Greaseman every morning.
Minimize your exposure to situations that might result in armed confrontation. Put some thought into that before you venture forth.
Learn to recognize when a situation is degrading (can happen very fast) and attempt to change that.
Decades ago, the FBI found the AVERAGE distance of a handgun shooting was 2.3 feet. Not sure that has changed much.
And finally, handguns are VERY easy to shoot yourself with. Getting the weapon out of concealment and into a two hand presentation, when you’re in dire straights, it’s very easy to point the muzzle at a part of your own body during this. Engaging ‘from the hip’ makes it even more likely.
It comes back (every time) to the training you do. Something you have repeated (correctly) thousands of times you will do better. Your conscience mind is going to be losing its shit and will not do a good job on the draw or keeping your other hand/arm out of the way. Those muscle motions need to be grooved in before they will be reliable under extreme stress.
Most people will not go to the trouble to invest the time or money to get to (and maintain) that level of expertise.
Paid for, professional training by a non-match oriented instructor and ‘home study’ of the techniques you are taught, I cannot recommend highly enough.
Along with practicing your shooting skills couple that with deception. By diverting their attention for a split second you buy time to get one home first. Dropping something, suddenly looking past them like someone else is behind them etc. It can’t hurt!
Heck Brad, my department has been training that way since …1995. Moving targets among civilians, House of Horrors, The Alley, deploy from cruiser(seatbelted), noise and light distractions, weapon retention, failure drills, disable drills, etc. Still have to shoot a qual course for eye-wash, though.
I always figured you trained for close quarters, as that’s where most encounters are, especially for non-LEO. In any event, great advice Brad; I didn’t know that this stuff wasn’t widely disseminated.
Odin 2013
I would estimate 70% of people that have a carry permit probably put less than 100 rounds a year down range. And all 100 rounds were standing stationary in a lane at a gun range at a piece of paper.
And on the other hand suddenly there’s a ton of trainers out there. And you’ve got to be real careful. There’s a couple guys around here training Center Axis Relock for QCB. That won’t work at 3 feet.
I should also mention, if you’re going to work on shooting quickly from the draw, do it dry fire first with a safe gun. Get one of those laser cartridges so you can tell where you’re getting your hits. Start off at quarter speed and slowly speed up. Like most things physical it takes a lot of reps to build the muscle memory. And first time you try live fire SLOW DOWN.