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Fight your Way to your Gun
Am Shooting Journal ^ | 4/19/2017 | K Michalowski

Posted on 04/19/2017 11:18:35 AM PDT by w1n1

In a close quarters battle reaching for your gun may not be the best choice. Remember, the root word of gunfight is fight, not gun. From contact distance to about 3 feet, you can strike your adversary, hard, and use those blows to create distance and decide if you need to reach for your gun.

Using a Kubaton, marker, flashlight or other impact weapon to increase the power of your strike will provide maximum benefit to your aggressive actions. Remember, never just throw one strike. Attack in combination and keep moving to gain distance. The downside to this is that you will need to work on getting your non-dominant arm competent enough to fight. What do you all think? See the footage here


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KEYWORDS: banglist; gundefense; gunfight; personalprotection

1 posted on 04/19/2017 11:18:35 AM PDT by w1n1
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To: w1n1
Using a Kubaton, marker, flashlight or other impact weapon to increase the power of your strike will provide maximum benefit to your aggressive actions.

Or you could just carry a knife.
2 posted on 04/19/2017 11:27:51 AM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: w1n1

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2312894/posts


3 posted on 04/19/2017 11:28:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: w1n1
If you're at combat range you're going to fight with whatever's in your hand. The kubotan in your pocket isn't any faster than the pistol at your belt. The flashlight in your hand is.

My last CQB instructor was literally half my age and twice my weight. I discovered the secret to success at that point: be young, big, fast, and well-trained. Or stay out of range.

4 posted on 04/19/2017 11:33:31 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A few years ago I encountered the “Fist Fire” grip. Made sense. Worth investigating. It incorporates that off hand push with simultaneous one hand draw and immediate fire from the hip. Gotta be careful practicing it. Start slow. Very slow. Folks have shot off fingers.


5 posted on 04/19/2017 12:21:53 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Billthedrill

“Or stay out of range.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HgoLLezD14


6 posted on 04/19/2017 12:49:56 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: w1n1

You can’t learn to defeat people in unarmed combat from watching a video. Maybe you accomplish something with your sharpie pen attack, maybe your opponent take you to the ground, gets full mount and smashes your head into the pavement (like Trayvon was doing to Zimmerman).

Anyone who thinks there is some little trick to this needs to go spar with a jujitsu black belt, or an MMA fighter, and become humbled. Average years to get a black belt in Brazilian JuJitsu: 10 years.


7 posted on 04/19/2017 4:02:19 PM PDT by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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To: wastoute

“FIST FIRE” at my range that is part of retention training during concealed carry night drill class. Later in the class we go this with 3 or 4 rounds take 2 steps back and Mozambique second threat to right.


8 posted on 04/19/2017 4:26:22 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: bravo whiskey

Sounds like fun!


9 posted on 04/20/2017 3:22:35 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: w1n1; Garth Tater
Using a Kubaton, marker, flashlight or other impact weapon to increase the power of your strike will provide maximum benefit to your aggressive actions. Remember, never just throw one strike.

But what if you just throw one strike, and your opponent's head falls off?


10 posted on 04/28/2017 3:49:08 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: wastoute

Stupid to practice that with a loaded weapon. Practice with snap caps or an empty gun.


11 posted on 04/28/2017 3:51:58 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

Incredibly dangerous to intentionally have any part of your body “downrange”. But CQB is inherently dangerous. You are correct. Probably best to start with a dummy and snap caps to get a feel for the geometry. Then go to the range and work on things with live rounds VERY SLOWLY.


12 posted on 04/28/2017 4:35:34 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

It is something we don’t think about. We go to ranges where there is a Range Officer and very strict rules (for good reason!), etc. as a sport shooting should be done with the safest regulation possible. And we leave thinking we have prepared ourselves to be defenders of our family and community. We rarely consider that “weapons familiarity” is about all we have actually accomplished.

Practitioners of “martial arts” spend hours practicing the actual motions of combat reapeatedly until those motions are fluid and reflexive and then spend more hours practicing with partners and, I suppose, with actual opponents in some limited, safe, fashion. Shooters rarely, if ever, do this. I know when I realized this years ago it was sort of startling to me.

Seems to me shooters should also spend time with rubber guns and partners in practicing drawing in contact, etc. IOW, actual, simulated combat. Perhaps even advancing to real, empty guns, and then to “shoot houses” like the entry teams do. IDPA or IPSC type shooting comes close but even there targets are rarely “close in”.


13 posted on 04/28/2017 5:10:34 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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