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That escalated quickly, amazing how a simple traffic stop turns in a shootout in seconds.
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That escalated quickly, amazing how a simple traffic stop turns in a shootout in seconds.
He does a great job of getting out of the vehicle and getting behind it. My only critique is that its really easy to want to hold tight to concealment/cover. However, if you ever pie around a vehicle or even something like a concrete pillar, you'll find that backing off of it will allow you to keep concealed, while giving yourself a better view of the bad guy. This works great in a case of tactical peekaboo. The officer eventually is able to move off the car and deliver the last couple shots. Good for him.
Yuppers .
"Training" that has people crowding walls and barricades makes me twitch.
I think it is situation-specific. If u have an unknown number of assailants (or unknown locations) that is quite a different scenario IMO. like the situation ur talking about hugging cover may be the right thing to do.I have to disagree. (I've never had lead fly my direction, but I've ducked a fair number of paintballs.)
In paintball you always snug up to cover. You can be behind cover, watching a potential opponent position a 1 o'clock, wrap around your cover to check another position at 11 o'clock, then, return to watching your primary position at 1 o'clock.
If you were three feet behind cover and checked the 11 o'clock position, you would be fully exposed if an opponent opened up from 1 o'clock.
I have to disagree. (I've never had lead fly my direction, but I've ducked a fair number of paintballs.)
In paintball you always snug up to cover. You can be behind cover, watching a potential opponent position a 1 o'clock, wrap around your cover to check another position at 11 o'clock, then, return to watching your primary position at 1 o'clock.
If you were three feet behind cover and checked the 11 o'clock position, you would be fully exposed if an opponent opened up from 1 o'clock.
Good points! In the movies people r always hiding behind walls, desks etc but the reality is that bullets can go through walls. Being aware of that allows you to use the knowledge either for offense or defense.I'm guessing that use of cover could be an entire class all by itself. IMO it is so situational!! More of a decision making process.
I can see where hugging cover gives some shelter, it's good for mag changes, and it's gotta be better than standing out in the open. But you would be blind to people sneaking up if you stayed there. Gotta move. Don't stay in one place. When moving, if you hug cover you are vulnerable to being disarmed, or shot, by the guy on the other side of the wall. The primary example is during CQB or house clearing.
I wonder what @Cerberus Group would say...
In the movies people r always hiding behind walls, desks etc but the reality is that bullets can go through walls. Being aware of that allows you to use the knowledge either for offense or defense.
Absolutely! I mis-spoke... most walls are concealment rather than cover. Big diff. However, actual gunfight evidence has shown that often concealment works like cover because the psychology of humans has us tending to think of it as impenetrable and not shoot thru it. BGs rarely shoot thru the wall, thru the cabinet, thru the desk, etc. I wouldn't want to count on it, but if that's all I got I'm using it! But I'll either be shooting back or looking for better cover, or a way to escape!!! (Defenders forget to escape, one often doesn't have to stand and fight!)
Retaining a dropped magazine has never affected the outcome of a gunfight. I can see where it would be more beneficial if you're with a group and your mission is to assault multiple positions, But for a lone civilian...doesn't happen. I think IDPA mandates something like this?
Transitioning from right to left hand (pistol) - right to left shoulder (rifle) during a gunfight, for engaging around a barrier.
I have played plenty of paintball.I have to disagree. (I've never had lead fly my direction, but I've ducked a fair number of paintballs.)
In paintball you always snug up to cover. You can be behind cover, watching a potential opponent position a 1 o'clock, wrap around your cover to check another position at 11 o'clock, then, return to watching your primary position at 1 o'clock.
If you were three feet behind cover and checked the 11 o'clock position, you would be fully exposed if an opponent opened up from 1 o'clock.
Good points! In the movies people r always hiding behind walls, desks etc but the reality is that bullets can go through walls. Being aware of that allows you to use the knowledge either for offense or defense.
I think it's helpful when you see a shooting or videos of a shooting we can ask ourselves "what would i do if I were in place A, B, C" for that situation. The Las Vegas country music concert shooting for example.
Another example is that guy who shot out the glass in the ammo case in Walmart in the Seattle area. Then he ran out of the store and shot his way into stealing a car in the parking lot. So in that example we can ask, what would I do if I were: in the ammo isle?, somewhere else in the store?, at the store entrance?, in the parking lot?
The more often we do this the less of a surprise it will be when the real thing happens because you have already went through hopefully similar situations in your head. Thats why I do it at the range (sort of like mental reps for a quarterback). Or another example is airline pilots who have practiced numerous emergency situations hundreds of times.
You can't really mimic the physiological affects of fight/flight/freeze such adrenaline, raised heartbeat, etc. that the real situation would create but you can practice your responses, and also your personal rules for "when would I intervene?" etc. So then u can be more clear-headed and hopefully more calm, collected, and confident when the real thing happens.
Imo if we react with panic we are probably going to have a bad result (or at least less than optimal). If we react with confidence, knowing that "I got this", we are probably going to have the best result possible for that situation. And that only comes via practice (even if all we can do is mental reps at the range). That's why I don't do slow fire practice at all with my edc. It makes for mental practice in a calm, relaxed, slow environment which is the exact opposite of what u want to practice for (the potential real world situation). I'm talking about personal defense practice, not target practice at the range for fun, competitive target shooting etc. where slow fire is fun.