Pocket
Shot
One of the reasons people a J-Frame (Revolver) or smaller handgun like this is it’s easy
to conceal.
I know a lot of dudes that carry a gun like this in the coat pocket.
Especially in winter time, it’s very easy.
You’re out walking the dog or something.
You’ve got sweets on and you’ve got nowhere to carry.
We are going to talk a little bit about deploying a weapon like this from the inside of a pocket.
This is not something you should be screwing around with.
This is something that is extremely dangerous.
I’m not going to lie.
You can start clothing on fire.
You definitely have to have an acute understanding of muzzle control.
I’ve got this sucker loaded up with Super Vel ammo.
This is not some target load.
This is Super Vel’s 90 grain.
We are going to see what this looks like.
So I’m in the pocket.
Actually in my soft-sided holster.
So I’m not carrying this thing loosely.
Still inside a soft holster, right?
So from this position, it would be pretty easy for me to engage.
I could engage a target out to some distance.
I don’t think I’d have a problem just point shooting.
I could also engage in close if need be.
From a retention stand point.
This is also a scenario where I have…
I am totally covert.
Nobody knows I actually have this gun inside of my pocket.
Until I either decide to draw it, or fire it.
So here’s what something like that might look like.
Guys ready?...
Ready.
And from that position, you see what happens to your clothing, to the bad guy.
So, right here, from that position we got a good impact.
And this is why I’m telling you, you’ve got to be careful.
One of the main reasons, aside from blowing you’re holster apart is, you need to pay
attention to what you’re doing because you might have a finger in front of that… and
any type of a barrel obstruction can cause a gun to actually explode.
Especially when you’re dealing with carry ammo.
This guy is smoked out now.
I’m not going to even play around with that.
So we are going to show you now again, what kind of damage you’re talking about with
clothing, right?
No joke.
No joke indeed.
One thing else I wanted to point out here, this blast here, that’s just the concussion
coming out of the sides of the cylinder.
Where the cylinder and forcing cone meet.
You always hear people tell you, don’t have your fingers around the edge of the barrel.
Or the edge of the cylinder rather, this is why.
Where that cylinder and forcing cone meet on a revolver, there’s a lot of hot escaping
gas right there.
This is not leather.
This is pretty durable material.
And it just blew it to smithereens, just with that concussion.
Again, what we are talking about is, understanding you’re body index and you’re ability to
fire from inside of clothing.
We’ll try this again now…
We are going to look at that same scenario, this time with a semi-auto.
This is a big drawback for a semi-auto, having to shoot inside of clothing because the reciprocation
of the slide can cause the gun not to operate, taking it out of battery… and take it out
of the fight completely.
So we’ve got the Walther PPS here.
Got this loaded up with a 147 grain defensive load.
This is Winchester Ranger ammo actually, that I’ve got in there.
And… we are going to shoot from inside the pocket.
I’ll have to use my left pocket, so I’ll have to shoot with my left hand instead of
my right because I blew the right pocket apart here.
It’s a new kind of a… sport coat here.
Check this out.
So I found that to be pretty interesting.
That gun…
I want to see if you’re camera picked it up, where that slide was moving.
If it was completely inside of the jacket each time it reciprocated.
Or if it was happening to be popping out.
It felt like it was all inside.
So, between that heavy defensive round and this Walther, the recoil spring rather, it
kept the gun in battery.
We went through the whole magazine.
That was a 147 grain.
Duty round from Winchester.
I believe it was their Ranger STX.
We were able to put those rounds into the target.
Indexing with our body.
We had to shoot out of the pocket.
It was an expedient type of a scenario…
Where the gun was in a coat pocket.
We had to deal with this situation in front of us.
Alright, we are going to look at this now with a regular hoodie on.
This is an expedient type of carry and deployment.
Got that J-Frame loaded with the smoking hot, Super Vel 90 grainers.
This stuff is no joke.
I’m not firing some target ammo.
What I want you guys to understand is I am totally aware of where the muzzle is doing
this.
You need to be so freaking careful, and do not do this unless you’ve had training.
I can’t say that enough.
Does this not look like a normal body position somebody could be in?
With a Hoodie on?
I think so.
But what am I hiding here.
Right?
That said, what does that look like?
From this type of a scenario, any type of body posture where you would have to shoot
up close, and personal.
Let’s see what that looks like.
Tell you what, Super Vel is no joke.
We were able to put all five hits on target.
I’ve destroyed a pretty decent shirt.
More importantly, we are building…
We are building a deeper understanding of how we can deploy the weapons that we carry
everyday.
And that’s no joke.
That was quick.
It was fast.
It was accurate.
And downright deadly.
There’s two to three hits right through the spine of the subject.
Is this something you want to have to do?
No.
Talk to anybody that’s done undercover work.
Talk to anybody that done any job where they are not able to carry openly, and, depending
on the clothing that you have, this is a much faster way to access a gun then for me to
actually come out of a holster.
That’s part of the thing we need to think about.
What is the most expedient way to deploy the weapon.
For me to have to clear a garment.
Access the weapon and engage, vs. put my hand on the trigger and engage.
A lot to think about.
Be careful.
Get training.
This is Mickey with Carry Trainer dot com.
Thank you Super Vel for this amazing ammunition.
It is super accurate.
Super awesome and super powerful in a little gun like that.
Be well.
So I want you to see this.
I am going to very carefully… ha ha ha [Bleep] I’m trying to get this thing to
go in my pocket [Bleep] without pointing at the zipper.
See how long that was.
Ready?
Uh oh…
Battery dead?