Advantages of Practicing with a Laser Training Pistol
Rob PincusRegular PDN viewers know that Rob Pincus is a big fan of the high compressed ready position, not any type of extended ready position. There are numerous reasons for this preference, but the main ones are efficiency and consistency.
You can do more things with the pistol in a compressed ready as opposed to an extended ready. He demonstrates these with a Laser Ammo Pro Laser Training Pistol, a worthy addition to your self-defense gear. Going around corners and cover with the gun in an extended ready exposes it — not a good idea. In an active shooter situation, having the gun in an extended ready looks more threatening than if it is in a compressed ready position, and that can get you shot.
Rob advocates getting used to driving the gun out from the high compressed ready position. This motion is consistent with drawing the gun from the holster and driving it out to take a shot.
Trigger Checking
Another problem with an extended ready position is that shooters often put their finger on the trigger when holding the gun in that position. The Laser Ammo Pro Laser Training Pistol has a useful feature called the Tattletale: a patented sensor design detects even the slightest intrusion into the trigger guard and sets off an alarm, warning the shooter about a potential discharge for shooting drills and handgun training. The device distinguishes between deliberate actions and unintentional incursions into the trigger guard. When an unintentional intrusion is detected, an alarm sounds.
Other Advantages
The Laser Ammo Pro Laser Training Pistol features the ability to change weighted magazines, and the laser can be integrated with a variety of training targets and simulators. The lasers can be infrared or traditional red, and you can adjust windage and elevation to make sure your shots go where you intend them to.
Now, if you watch Personal Defense Network a lot, you know that I'm a big fan of a high compressed ready and not an extended ready position. There's a whole bunch of reasons for that. The main reason is efficiency and consistency. If I can do more things with a gun in a compressed ready than I can in extended, then it's a better choice for me. If I think about going around corners and things like that exposing the gun in an extended ready, well that's gonna be a bad idea.
If I'm inside of an active shooter situation, maybe, and I had to draw my gun and shoot someone down to the ground, and I'm not sure if there's another threat and I leave my gun at an extended ready and a police officer... And if you saw this, you're a responding police officer and you saw this person in a crowd in the middle of an active shooter situation, you'd probably, reasonably, think this person was trying to shoot people, as opposed to this person or even this person in this compressed ready position who's looking to see if they need to defend themselves from someone, right? So there's another reason we wouldn't want an extended ready position. Obviously, if I'm gonna have an extended ready position, then I'm down here, I'm swinging the gun up. I'm already at extension and there's no biomechanical lock here.
Even if I'm in my line of sight, if I'm swinging the gun over, I have no biomechanical lock. So I really want to get used to driving the gun out, of course, driving the gun out is consistent with coming up out of the holster and driving the gun out. If I'm reloading in my hike and breast ready position, now I'm gonna drive out. If I'm clearing a malfunction in here, if I have a problem here, I'm clearing a malfunction, getting that magazine back in there, I'm driving back out. So I really get a lot of consistency, but here's one of the big things and this gun here, this training gun is great at.
When I activate the tattletale, I'm gonna know... if I'm leaving my finger in the trigger when I don't want it there and that's one of the things I see with partially extended or fully extended ready positions. People putting their finger near the trigger when they don't want to, called trigger checking. Been a lot of studies done on this, no matter how well-trained someone is that if they're moving around a house and they think there might be a threat over there and they start to creep out, law enforcement guys in training, slot guys, that trigger finger can get in there and it's not supposed to be. If I haven't committed to coming out and shooting and actually taking that shot, I don't want my finger anywhere near the trigger and the reason is grasp reflex.
Grasp reflex is a phenomenon where I have my finger kind of floating around the trigger and then something happens over here and I pull the trigger because I get startled or my partner bumps into me and I fire a shot as he bumped into me and my finger compresses down on this gun as I lose my balance. It's a very well-documented phenomenon that when you're startled, when you're caught off guard and you start to go off balance, you tend to clamp down. So keeping your finger out of the trigger is really important. Well, you might say, "Well I can just train myself to keep my finger off the trigger even at an extended ready." And that's where we get back to inefficiency and inconsistency. I'm training myself in the worst case scenario is very close in to start pressing that trigger on the way out.
My fingers should be going into the trigger guard when I'm extending the shoot. I don't wanna wait until I'm at full extension and make another decision and another action to shoot, slapping at the trigger. So, because I'm gonna go in as I come out of my compressed ready, I'm gonna shoot, I never hear that tattletale. The tattletale only shows up with my fingers in there but I haven't taken a shot because my fingers should not be in there ever, especially that long if all I'm doing is standing by in a ready. Another advantage of the compressed ready position, the trigger finger will always be in your safe index.
In addition to the trigger finger tattletale sensor, the advanced training laser pistol also features the ability to change weighted magazines and the laser itself can be integrated with a variety of training targets and training simulators. The lasers can be infrared or traditional red lasers and you can adjust the windage and elevation to make sure that your shots are going where they intend to.
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