Okay students at the gun.
What is it your carrying in your pocket every day? So you've got your weapon
it's great. You got your holster, you figured out. You put your cool sights on it,
that's all fantastic.
But what if you can't see what you're shooting? That's kind of a problem.
Most people think, "Ahh...
I'll figure that out when I get there." Or I've got night sights.
Well that's great, but you get night sights and you can see your target...
You still can't acquire it in stop the threat.
Weapon mounted lights, while wonderful and easily deployed because they are part of your weapon,
are never to be used as a search tool. Anywhere I point to see,
I'm now pointing my muzzle. Which I'm walking through my house
I might find out that my son who's gone to the refrigerator for soda pop in the middle of the night,
is now on the receiving end of my muzzle. So that's why we always want to have a flashlight.
A handheld flashlight. Sixty percent up defensive shootings
or police shootings we find happen in low to diminish like
We also want to think about a flashlight being a force multiplier.
If I put a massive amount of light or even a little bit of light
in a dark situation into an attackers eyes
their light receptors have now gotten all messed up and they can't see me.
That allows me to move and
engage or get away. So sometimes the light is all you need to stop a violent threat.
So we're gonna look at today is,
how do we deploy the light onto our targets from concealment
and a couple different type lights that we have.
So how we hold the flashlight. This is actually one design for the famous cigar hold.
The nice thing about this light, it's got the tail piece switch.
It allows us... this particular hold is my favorite. It allows us to still
use of our free fingers to hold the weapon which is
what this hand should be doing. It also allows us to come
in different positions and flash the target if we need to. So this one
is designed for the cigar hold. The one that I happen to carry with me every day,
you can, I'm able to get the cigar hold, I've got fairly beefy hands
but you can just as easily come in from this position
now you wanna lock that on
the tailpiece.
You don't have to be able to contact the button from the palm of your hand.
You'll also see guys make movements like this. I don't know if I'm wiping the camera out with
my light or not but the purpose of these movements
is if I'm engaging a threat in this direction, if there's low light
and I have my light on, what am i doing for the assailant? I'm giving him
something to shoot at which terrible.
So that's the other problem with weapon mounted lights. You turn at light on and
your pointing and shooting
you are now just saying, "Hey bad guy here I am, shoot at the light."
So one of the things that we can do as I mentioned earlier with the force multiplier
is we can use the light, my light can come on, and sweep away.
As it sweeps away, if I'm in a dark setting, all that adversary sees is my light
moving away
while I'm actually going this way. So light comes back on and I
engage the target, the bad guy thinks I went this way but in reality
I'm five feet away. So again, I want you to think about what you can do with a light
in the darkness. Now look at what it actually looks like to shoot in
Right now the way we've set the lighting up here to shoot, you
see a silhouette around me.
That silhouette actually illustrates something that we never want to do with
a flashlight.
We never want to silhouette ourself, because its silhouette allows
our attacker to see a perfect outline of our body. We wanna pay attention the
angles of our light because right now
I'm doing it for the purpose for the sake of this display, I can inadvertently
illuminate myself. So rather than illuminatting my target
I'm now giving my attacker something to see. So I'm using my light might force
multiplier to help him or her which is exactly what we don't want to do.
So we gotta pay attention that. Now we are going to show a couple shots
on target from complete darkness. I cannot see the target. I cannot see the backstop.
This is also something you want to do after much
practice drawing are a loaded weapon because now we are in complete darkness.
Here we go.
We are now going to do that from concealment.
Here we go again.
Follow them to the ground. Did I hit? Did it work?
Now I did that with the large cigar light. I'm now gonna show with the
dim light. I'm not a huge fan to be super bright lights all the time.
Sometimes it's super bright lights not the best thing. Here we go with my
small light that I showed you earlier.
reload int he dark
I showed you a couple at the end with no light. Not only
is it disorientating to your aggressor, but it's disorienting to you.
Just like everything guys my ways not the only way. What I'm trying to get you
to do is think
and try different things. There's guys out there that say, this is the light you have.
This is the gun you have to have. This the holster you have, so on and so forth
Try different things. What what really matters, on the range in the real world, is
did I hit. Did it work. Was I able to put my rounds where I wanted them
fast and effectively. You can have a gun room at home with all the cool
toys and bells and whistles.
But if you're not able to take those tools out in the real world
and using the defend yourself for that another I personally would prefer you
keep all that stuff at home because now you're making our streets
less safe than they were to begin with. So let's think about that.
Think through what we're doing and look for the best tool that's best for you.
Not just what me or some other instructor tells you.
Hey everybody, Mickey Schuch with CarryTrainer.com. I'm reminding you, everything you see us do,
is something that we practiced many times with unloaded firearms.
You need to do the same before you try anything with the gun.
Remember, safety is your responsibility you need to read and know how to use a
firearm, and understand where you're shooting what's beyond the backstop
Also you and you alone are responsible for your personal safety.