Alright, so today we are talking about one-handed reloading.
What happens if your arm gets injured?
What happens if your arm gets blown off?
What happens if you are holding your child back, behind you or carry them and your gun
goes out of the fight?
This is not usually complex stuff, but it’s stuff that, if you haven’t practiced it,
chances are full of adrenaline you’re not going to manipulate these things very well.
So practice them.
Practice them with empty guns.
Definitely, definitely lots of dry fire before you come out to a live range like this and
try this.
Muzzle discipline and trigger discipline is PARAMONT with these types of movements because
your putting muzzles in a lot of precarious positions.
Make sure your range will even allow you to train this stuff.
Hopefully they do.
We’re going to go from there.
You saw the way that I prefer with the back of the leg.
I like that because of my body type.
There are other methods.
One of the most dangerous parts about this is the traversing of the pistol to your weak
hand, from whatever side your holster is on.
Rolling it across your body, if you’ve got sweaty bloody hands, or if you’ve got a
lot of clothes on, that could be difficult.
So there are some other ways to do that.
Again, do this with an empty gun before you try it with a loaded one.
One of the more popular ways is to come down between your legs, depending on your body
type, your ability to bend like this, this may or may not work.
But once you do that, you’ve now transitioned from your strong side holster to your weak
hand.
If your unable to use the crotches of your body, the side of your knees or the back of
your leg, you have a gun holder on you.
It’s your holster.
So there’s no reason you can’t shoot, come back to the holster, make your magazine
change.
I’ll show you what that looks like.
Now that works, if your strong side arm is still in the fight and is still working.
It would make no sense for me to take the pistol, with my weak hand and somehow get
it back into the holster.
You’re going to want to use one of those behind the knee, between the leg practices
that we showed you.
Alright, so this time I’m going to reload with the gun between my legs.
Here we go.
The one thing I don’t like about that body position is while it worked, and you saw I
got the reload done.
You don’t have very good balance when you are in this position.
You gotta put your feet close together.
You’re squatted down.
If you have to do it, you have to do it.
If that’s the position you’re in, in a tight hallway, a lot of people around you…
trying to herd your kids behind you…
This is safe.
The one thing I like about this, the muzzle direction.
If you’re really clamped in here, the muzzle is going between my feet.
I wouldn’t like a round to discharge into the concrete, but if it did, that’s a lot
better than pointing it a lot of other directions, like with the gun behind the leg.
So just pay attention to that muzzle at all times.
Some of this stuff looks dangerous.
It is.
We are working with loaded weapons.
This is not something for beginners.
Why would anyone ever think about doing these things?
For a situation beyond an injury?
What if you had a child in your hand?
… your grandma you were pushing behind you?...
you were in a really tight hallway?... or you had a mob of people crushing against you
and you were unable to use your other arm?
There’s all kinds of reasons.
The odds of us ever getting into a gunfight are very slim.
The odds of getting into a gunfight, getting injured, and reloading with one hand are even
slimmer yet.
But I’d rather know how to do, or have tried it, than not.
This is Mickey Schuch with Carry Trainer dot com.
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