Pistol Range: Drawing From Concealment

[shafter]

I can understand why a range would prohibit it. For every person who could do it safely there are going to be a bunch of yahoos who would probably kill shoot someone eventually.

I'm fortunate that due to work I can shoot at ranges that allow pretty much everything from drawing from concealment to shooting while moving to rapid fire.

 

[8Ball_99]

I have a range at home and don't go to indoor ranges very often. But the ones around here don't allow it. I 100% understand why. I'm not really a fan of public ranges because no I don't trust the person next to me. Like someone else mentioned. Go to literally any indoor range that isn't brand new and just look around. There will be holes and bullet marks in places that are hard to even understand. No I don't want the guy beside me doing holster drills with a thin divider between us. Especially from concealment. There is a reason why ranges want the muzzle end pointed down range at all times. Even with that rule people still shoot the freaking ceiling and the floor. And even if a regular is found to be confident and capable all it takes is one slip or them to snag their clothing and potentially shoot the guy in the next lane. That's a big liability risk for the range. We practice drawing from concealment at home on the range but I don't do it with someone standing next to me.

 

[Hangingrock]

I have a handgun range on the property thus I'm free to practice different techniques such as drawing the weapon from concealment. I also belong to a shooting association (land share owner) member. What one is allowed to do is dependent on the range safety officer and or your fellow shooters that are also utilizing that range.

 

[ECVMatt]

I am very lucky to have my own range about two hours away and then the open desert right after that. I have not been to a public range in years except for my CCW class/test. It was enough to send me back out to the desert. The local range I did shoot as would not allow holster draw except for LEO. It would be nice to have a local range to practice, but as it is I get to the desert about every other week so I have plenty of opportunities to shoot.

 

[JohnKSa]

The draw can be practiced with an unloaded gun while at the range you can practice getting a shot on target from low ready. Put the two together and you're where you need to be.

If you find unloaded draw practice is too dull, you can look at a system like MantisX, SIRT, or even Airsoft. None of those provide good recoil training, but in terms of learning to get a gun out of the holster safely and putting a shot on target quickly, they will do the trick.

 

[JamieC]

An outdoor range not too far from me has a set of booths set up with steel between them all specifically to allow people to practice drawing and shooting. A simple and effective idea!

 

[Shawn Dodson]

A Mantis Pink Rhino laser cartridge, a shot timer (free "Par Timer" cellphone app), and a 4" target placed at 7 yards makes for very good dry fire training. You can present your gun from concealment in any holster and "shoot" as much as you want and get feedback where your "rounds" are landing. You can also download the free Laser Hit cellphone app and use that to record your results. (The free Laser Hit app is better than the free Mantis cellphone app.)

When I come home from work, I draw and "shoot" 100 rounds per day as described above, using just the Par Timer app. (It takes about half an hour.) I've been able to increase my draw speed, decrease the time it takes to fire my first shot, and increase my accuracy.

 

[Meeks36]

If not !
Wear your concealed holster and not put the over clothes on to conceal it East Peasy

Man that would be a hoot for those who wear thunder wear. Or something similar!

 

[Jonesy814]

It is great having a spot on private land to shoot. We draw from concealment, shoot on the move and can set up multiple targets to shoot. We have shot through coat pockets, while sitting or laying on the ground, as if you were knocked down and while sitting in lawn chairs. We do long range to 40 yards and have done point blank defensive drills with a target just 2 feet to your right or left, and popped firecrackers while the other guy is shooting to create stress and diversion.
Anything questionable for safety gets dry run more than once. There are 3 of us that do this regularly. Everyone knows what is going to be done ahead of time. One fun thing is to have multiple targets. Upon the call of Threat, which signals the shooter to draw we will call out a particular target to shoot. It ads an element of surprised and decision making to the process

 

[Anchorite]

I moved to a different gun club/range just recently, and today got signed off to draw from the holster. But I was disappointed to find that the new range does not allow drawing from concealment, IWB, or pocket. All of those have been part of my regular training for a while now, either consistently, seasonally, or intermittently, depending on how I'm carrying.

I guess I just took for granted that I could do all of that at an indoor range. It's becomes my weekly range routine to walking in carrying, swap out my mags for ones with range ammo, and get to work on a set of drills. But it looks as though that will no longer be a possibility. Which will mean more dry fire practice from concealment, and more OWB live fire practice sans concealment garment.

Is it just rare for ranges to allow holster work from concealment?

This is the reason I belong to my local FOP range. It’s private.

 

[WisBorn]

Of the different membership ranges, pay as you go ranges, and free ranges that I have shot at. I can't remember any of them allowing draw from holster with the exception of league nights for competition practice.

 

[Jim Watson]

I usually go to my club and other square range at odd times on weekdays, seldom anybody there to criticize my activities.
The indoor range allows me to draw, but I don't do it when they are busy and I take a lane out of line of sight from the showroom so I don't give the hoi polloi funny ideas.