Trying to find ways to make your training more challenging isn’t always easy. Once you’ve started integrating lateral movement into your reloading, malfunction and presentation techniques, you’ll want to avoid forming patterns of movement that are always the same. As you develop your skill, you should also begin practicing the processing of information as much as possible in order to develop your ability to perform your skills without conscious thought. This advanced drill will allow you to work on both issues by having your movement direction during a reload or malfunction dictated by your position on a target during a string of engagements. Practicing this lateral movement drill is essential.
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Weak-Sided Cover with a Pistol
There is a long-standing misconception in the gun industry that you gain an advantage by using a pistol with your weak hand when you are firing from behind cover.
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Living In a 360 Degree World: Defensive Firearms Training
Brain Sabol discusses the importance of defensive firearms training for a 360 degree world, even on a typical square range. Brian offers some ideas for how you can train more realistically even when your live-fire options don’t include 360 degrees.
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Recruiting Firearm Instructors for Your Range
Rob Pincus is with Chuck Usina at the Ancient City Shooting Range in St. Augustine, Florida, to talk about how range owners can find good firearm instructors to teach courses. Chuck advises doing research on what the firearm instructors teach, talking to their former students, and checking to make sure the instructors have positive feedback.…
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Low Ready Position with a Long Gun
Rob Pincus explains the advantages of a muzzle low ready position, especially in an extreme close quarters situation. The low ready position allows for more efficiency and consistency when moving into a shooting position and for dramatically more control if your rifle is ever grabbed by an attacker.
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