The purpose of this thread is for shooters to be able to post videos of themselves shooting drills so that other members can critique and offer advice about anything in regards to how they ran the drill. This should help those out that are just getting into shooting, and those who do not always have a shooting buddy to call commonly seen mistakes.
Any and everyone can post and is encouraged to post videos of them shooting drills
For this thread, simply link the video, give a brief description of the drill and let other members critique your performance.
I will open this up with the following.
[b]Video 1: AIWB El Pres[/b]. This is a video of me running the El Pres from concealed. Disregard goofy camera man.
Buy a tripod and leave the camera on it would help with being better able for others to see what your doing. You could also set it up in front of you safely. Having the guy with the timer film and time and call your shots isn’t really a good idea for several reasons.
Not the OP, but I do the same thing. By bringing the gun close in during your search and assess, if you have another threat that’s off center or to the side, you just twist your torso and punch the gun out again, vs swinging it at full extension or seeing threat and then bringing gun in.
I have been fighting the habit to disengage from the target to quickly. So I do need to slow down how fast I pull the weapon in.
I do search and assess with weapon pulled in because I am faster to to put rounds on other possible threat when I pull it in vice lowering it. Also it allows for you to view more of your environment.
If you don’t have targets separated by more than say… 120 degrees… you’re not going to bring the gun in during a target transition anyway right?
I shoot assess scan (move gun a little… move head full 180) decock, then bring gun in and holser. My training logic is if I see a target past 120 degrees… I bring indeed bring the gun in anyway… why get the sights off target area unnecessarily?
If multiple targets present themselves at the same time, I will stay at extension when engaging between the targets.
I will pull the weapon in if I have engaged said targets, no other targets are present, but I have a feeling more bad guys are coming or I am just searching my general environment.
Yes I agree, when transitioning between targets during an active course of fire and the target is not angled too far off, I see no need to bring the gun in. My opinion is that once you have dealt with the known threats/targets, bringing the gun in close during your S&A in case another threat/target appears is a good habit, since you do not know where it will appear. Lets get back to video mentoring:cool:
Normally, I would say that the reason people come off a target they just shot is because of the “safety” rules implemented by “gun games.”
In this case though, he is going back into position “1” (retention). This is much better than the race to put the gun back into the holster. :rolleyes:
Since there are no magic bullets and it since it takes about two 2 liters of blood to drain out of ones body before they pass out, I hold on target the target I just shot for 2-3 seconds (making sure that the threat is down). Then scan and assess for a new threat (to include looking behind me). Then collapse back to position “1” and slowly holster.
The problem is that the threat might not be down (read no magic bullets). So it is a good idea to hold on them for a couple of seconds.
The down side to bringing the gun in while you are scanning is that the gun is not moving in the same direction as your head. So if you spot a threat, your hands have to catch up to your head. This CAN make it easier to throw rounds.
Now with that said, in tight quarters (CQB), when I am scanning, the handgun is usually in position “1” as I don’t want someone to pop out from around a corner and grab it.
So IMHO, it kind of depends on the situation and or where you are out (outside vs in a cramped space).
I’m sorry, did I read that correctly… 30yrd 1-5 drill? and ten seconds is seems fast for that when you think of an 8 in plate. I am going to have to try this one!
Here is a vid of me at a recent Vickers Home Defense course at BlackWater (I am the guy in white talking a lot). Notice in the second room we enter, it appears that I do not check my left corner. I honestly don’t know if I did or not. I could have gotten “sucked in” to the threat and ignored it.
