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(rock music)
(gunshot)
- CQB, or Close Quarters Battle, is all the craze today.
So I want to show you a tip for learning
a little something about firing
in a close quarters battle position.
I'm gonna give you the steps to take it,
so that you're not starting right from the holster,
and maybe doing something a little dangerous,
or at risk of shooting elbows,
or maybe your support hand,
so I'm gonna show you how I would do this drill.
So for firing at close quarters position like this,
if I want to get started at it, and do it in a safe way,
I'm gonna start with the gun out of the holster.
And I'm not loaded just yet, but I'm gonna start
with the gun out of my holster,
at kind of a close quarters retention position,
or a rib index.
You can call it a rib index because I can feel
my lower ribs when I fire from here.
So from here, I can fire rounds.
Then once I get comfortable with that position,
and what that feels like, then what I can do
is I can take it from the holster.
Now I really have to be conscious
of what I'm doing with the support hand.
So I don't want to have this hand down here,
'cause I don't want to be at risk of shooting it,
and I want to make sure that I don't
have this elbow out here either,
where I'm maybe at risk of nipping it.
So keeping it tight into my body,
I'm gonna keep it tight to my body,
draw, present, and fire right from here.
Now, people tend to have an aversion to this drill,
because the muzzle blast is right here,
near their face, plus they're really close to the target.
So this is a great way to become a little more comfortable
with the ideas of close quarters battle,
and close quarters firing.
I'm gonna load and make ready, let's do this.
(gun clicks)
So, with my rib index, I'm set up on the target,
I've got my hand in the defensive position here.
I watch, I can see where my muzzle is oriented,
and I'm gonna engage with two rounds.
(gun fires twice)
(gun fires twice, slowly)
Great. Look at those shots.
Great shot placement, exactly where I want to be.
Anywhere down in that pelvic girdle is a good place.
Do it again.
(gun fires twice)
Couple more shots.
After I've done this for a little bit,
and I've gotten comfortable with it,
I'm gonna take the gun,
and I'm gonna go back to the holster.
Making sure nothing's caught in my trigger guard,
making sure no cover garments are caught
in my trigger guard, and I'm set.
So from here I'm gonna stage my arm
in defensive position, and on my own command
of threat, I'm gonna draw, clear my cover garment,
bring that pistol out, and I'm gonna engage.
(gun fires twice)
(gun shot)
Here's another way we can advance this drill.
I'm gonna create distance after I fire,
'cause once I shoot this bad guy away from me,
I want to create distance and I want to get two hands
on the gun as soon as possible.
In my opinion, anything less than two-hand sided fire,
you're compromising.
So as soon as I can get two hands on the gun,
I'm going for it.
So here's how it'll look.
I draw. Gun comes out. Rib index.
(two gunshots)
Create distance.
Now if I needed to I'd follow him to the ground.
Or, I could come up to the head,
(gunshot)
and take that head shot or center chest shot.
(deep sigh) Breathe, relax, and work my way
back to the holster.
So that's close quarters battle shooting,
and that's a way you could do it on your range,
or you could do it on any outdoor range
where you can get that close to the target,
and have a little bit of leeway
to move forward and rearward.
(gunshot)
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(gunshots)
- All right, now we're gonna get
outside of some of ya'll's comfort zones.
If you're suffering from that dun-lopped disease,
you know, where your belly's done lopped over your belt,
this may be a little bit more difficult for ya.
I'm gonna use a 20-pound sandbag
to make it a little bit more difficult.
You can use heavier ones, you can do it without.
Basically, we're shooting from a supine position now.
If you've been grounded in a gunfight,
in an altercation, and you have to shoot
from a seated position, you can incorporate
two-handed shooting, you can incorporate strong hand,
you can incorporate support hand,
you can do all of it based on how comfortable
you are with this drill.
Let's go ahead and give it a go.
(gun clicks)
I'm gonna go ahead and set the pistol on the ground,
that way I can move between support hand
and strong hand.
Grab my sandbag.
Sit up.
(gunshot)
Grab my sandbag. Sit up.
(gunshot)
(bullet hitting metal)
(gunshot)
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(gunshot)
All right. So those are the sit-up drills.
Put your gun on the ground, that way
you can go from the two-handed, support hand,
strong hand only.
If you're going from your holster make sure
you don't muzzle sweep your leg.
Get yourself a little ab workout,
start getting back in shape, get that heart rate up,
get that breath rate up,
and make sure you stay on target.
(gunshot)