Here's a drill.
Warning, the footage is really graphic--not just graphic, really horrible. As in truly nightmare type horrible. I can't stress enough how awful it is and if anything, this warning is far too benign for what you will see. If you want to know what's in the video without watching it, there's a short section at the bottom of the post that provides background and content information.
You have been warned. Seriously, I don't want to hear any complaining about how anyone was blindsided by the video contents.
GRAPHIC VIDEO: https://twitter.com/eclipsethis2003/status/1764661123351994564 :GRAPHIC VIDEO
Don't prepare, just do the following with one of your carry guns. Unloaded, of course.
Start the video.
At the first sign of trouble, draw, and dryfire.
Now think. In the time you have to respond do you want to be trying to remember where you are carrying, what you are carrying, whether the safety is up or down for fire, whether the trigger's going to be a long DA, a short SA, or a striker-fire, and how far you have to release the trigger before it will reset?
You're almost certainly going to get cut, you're just too close when the threat first shows, but you might be able to save your life if you can respond quickly and accurately enough.
The cop couldn't do it even though he didn't have to guess about anything relating to his carry method or gun. Same carry method as every day, no concealment to deal with, same gun as every day.
Now think about which would be more valuable in a situation like that.
Daily variety in your carry gun/carry method? OR Keeping everything exactly the same so you can respond as quickly and surely as is humanly possible.
Training with a lot of different firearms and carry methods? OR Training with one firearm or style of firearm and one carry method so that you can respond at the reflexive level without "taking a few measures" before you are good to go?
Obviously everyone can choose to do whatever they want. Choose wisely.
Background for the video and video contents.
A cop is responding to a call that someone is illegally on the property. He walks up to the man thinking he is the one who placed the call.
When he gets close enough, the man draws a large knife and stabs/hacks the cop.
The cop appears to respond by trying to get away but is unable to and the attacker keeps at it.
An armed citizen intervenes and kills the criminal (you hear the shots but don't see anything), but not in time to save the cop.
Here's a link to a post discussing the encounter that contains a link to an article that contains a link to the video.
I wasnt really sure where to put this, so here it landed. :) Main thing here I think, is it emphasizes the Tueler Drill, which seems to be lost on, and/or widely misunderstood by a lot of people, and just how quickly things can go wrong. It also very much emphasizes, what you carry, how you...
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