Hi, I'm Mickey Schuch with CarryTrainer.com. Today we are talking about drawing from concealment.
So what's the deal? Why does everyone want to see what we are doing different?
Everybody on the internet today thinks their an expert today in concealed firearms and
tactics in general. And don't get me wrong, there are hundreds of expert trainers across
the country, but what I'm seeing right now in the youtube world are bad tactics.
What we want you to think about is not specifically what gun to carry, what holster to carry,
or where to carry it. What we want you to think about is, "Can I deploy the weapon rapidly
and stop a threat?" I hear constantly from students, and from other trainers that we're
not gun slingers, we're not the police, we don't need to be able to rapidly deploy a
firearm. And I say, "Bullshit." Why? Because the average human being can fire a
weapon every 2/10's of a second. That means in one second you could have up to five rounds
coming your way.
So if we think about that Bad guy is where the camera is at, I'm here. It takes me some
lake time to figure out there's something bad happening. That's the problem with a defensive
situation. Your behind the curve. Your defending yourself and the bad guy, he knows when it's
time to attack. He knows what's going to happen. You don't.
We are going to take a look at some conceal carry pistols and holsters. I'm a big fan
of Kayaks. We also have some leather holsters. The purpose of today's video though is not
what holster to use or what firearm to use. What we want you to think about is the mindset
of training with these holsters and training with your firearm to be able to deploy it
rapidly, so when you get the impulse the stimulus rather, of a threat, it's subconscious to
draw that firearm and present it to the target.
So we are going to go through several of these in several scenarios to show you what we want
you to be practicing. We want the draw stroke to be as smooth and
fluid as possible. In training for a proper draw stroke from concealment, you don't want
a bunch of exaggerated movements. There are guys that train all sorts of jerky exaggerated
movements. What we're trying to do is fast and smooth as possible.
We have to gain access to the firearm. Grab it with your support hand. Grab your cover
garment over the firearm. Not too far forward. Not too far back. So as that comes up, get
your master grip, rotate, and press out for a shot.
Appendix carry is all the rage. There's nothing new. There are guys who say they've invented
it. This is how cowboys have been carrying guns since the old west. You look in the 1800's,
there's literally thousands of pictures of men with six-shooters shoved into their waistband
in this position. Anybody who wants to say this is new is wrong. The reason we like this
is it puts everything right in front of us. So if you were to fall on your back with the
position I was showing you earlier in a vehicle, it's hard to access the weapon. From this
position it can be argued it's a shorter motion.
So same thing. We are going to grab the garment over the weapon. We're going to expose it,
this has got to be done in a manner bringing it high enough that we're not catching our
other hand on the shirt.
We are going to come up, get our master grip, press out, and make the shot. (click) I'm
going to do that again. (click)
So we're going to look at this from start to finish, just in slow time so we can break
it down with live fire. I like to start in this position. It's non-confrontational. You're
able to strike an opponent if you need to. And you can also rapidly access the fire arm.
We're going to break it down, live fire. (Bang. Bang.)
Now we are going to look at that on the timer so we can see what we can do with standard
everyday cover garments.
(beep... bang bang)
That was really slow. I was at 1.7 seconds on that. I got hung up on the draw. Here we
go.
(beep... bang bang)
1.4 seconds. We'll do it one more time.
(beep... bang bang)
Two shots on target in 1.4. So what I'm trying to show you here is that you can rapidly deploy
the firearm and put combat effective rounds on target with speed.
We are going to change up out cover garments and try this again.
All right, we are going to do a live fire drill now with a t-shirt on. A lot of people
say a t-shirt is not a good cover garment. I disagree. I use it all the time. It's hot,
summer-time and I want to be comfortable and I also want to have my weapon with me.
So I'm running the Glock 19 with me today and again and the inside-the-waistband Kayaks
holster. Load and make ready. (click)
I'm going to run this one-time just with the t-shirt on and then I'm going to run it on
the timer. See what kind of times we can get.
(beep... bang bang)
Alright, we are going to do this again. One shot on target with the timer, with the t-shirt,
and see what times we can get. And, again, I'm not incorporating any movement in this.
The only purpose is getting the mechanics of the draw stroke down. So that's what we're
looking at.
(beep... bang)
So one shot on target in 1.3 seconds from the beep. A lot of people don't understand
that there's almost a quarter second of lag time automatically from your brain, to hear
that beep or some stimulus and respond. Almost a half a second by the time you've received
the stimulus and told your muscles to react.
So, knowing all that, as fast as your possibly going to go, your still behind the curve when
being attacked. Train these movements hard. Train them until they become subconscious.
Get a timer. Get to the range and try it out.
Hey everybody, Mickey Schuch here with CarryTrainer.com. I'm reminding you everything you see us do
is something that we've practiced many times with an unloaded firearms. You need to do
the same before you try anything with a gun. Remember, safety is your responsibility. You
need to read and know how to use a firearm and understand where your shooting and what's
beyond the backstop.
Also, you and you alone are responsible for your personal safety.