Defensive Rifle Hand Positions

Alright, I'm here with Mike Centola of Allstar Tactical. He is a rifle guy. He builds some great rifles. If you haven't seen him yet, check out Allstar Tactical. What I want you to do right now is talk to me about where your support hand goes on the rifle because we've seen all kinds of things.

I remember when everybody had to have your hand up on the magwell. Nowadays everybody wants to have their thumb way over the bore out stretched cause that looks cool. Sure. So tell me what you think. So basically I think there's several different ways based on personal preference.

I personally prefer, depending on the length of the hand guard, the thumb over bore. I feel you have good long range stability for movement. This is nice. Cause you're nicer. Your body's tight.

You can react very well. However, you could swing a lot. So I think I'm not a big fan of the vertical grip here but I like the angled for grips. It really is going to come down to personal preference. But I think I like the longer hand guard.

So you can really kind of push, pull, mitigate your recoil and really get a good stable shot. Cool, I like the fact that you talk about how different circumstances are going to dictate different hand positions. And that's really what I think. I think ultimately we have to realize that there's different reasons to have your support hand in different places. If you're down in a kneeling position and you want to get that stability from the leg for example, and your arm's stretched out straight you're not gaining anything from being down here, right?

So we know we want to come back and get that leg onto the hand or get that hand on the leg in this case. We might want to be back at the magwell for some reason. And as we all know, there are many technical advantages to being able to shoot fast and move that muzzle very precisely when your hands' fully out stretched. So I think we're on the same page when it comes to that, Your circumstances are going to dictate and then your personal preference is certainly going to influence your choice when it comes to support hand position on a long gun.