Firearms Training: Cover VS Concealment
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Number of speakers: 1 (Ethical Preparedness)
Duration: 4 min 23 sec
Firearms Training: Cover VS Concealment
EP: “Remember: You are ultimately responsible for protecting yourself and for providing for yourself. Live your life with honor and integrity. And always be the wolf hunter; don’t be the sheep. Nor the wolf.”
EP: “Hey folks, welcome to ethical preparedness. I like to, as much as possible, to try and get as much firearms training as I can in. Unfortunately due to work and family and home chores I am not able to get out on the ranch as much as I’d like. But my fire arms training, I like to incorporate movement and use of cover and/or concealment. And transition drills and voice commands and communication and even medical assistance. I like to incorporate movement in my training because I want to train myself to automatically move and not make myself such a stationary and easy to hit target for my suspects.”
“Also, I like to incorporate the use of cover and/or concealment ya know preferably cover so that I will automatically try to move to something that may assist in stopping the bad guys bullets that may be coming my way. So today we are going to be talking about the difference in cover and concealment. Ya know and to put it simply, cover has the ability to stop bullets. Good examples of cover are solid thick block walls. Maybe engine blocks, thick trees etc… Concealment will probably not stop bullets, but helps to hide you so that the bad guy isn’t able to take good aim at you which then lesson his chance at hitting you. Good examples of concealment are your typical walls in most homes. A bush or shrubbery. A car door, stuff like that etc. Obviously you want cover instead of concealment but sometimes you just might not have it available. An example would be if you engage in a gun fight with an armed intruder in your house. Unless you live in a castle of some type of fortress you probably won’t have a solid brick wall or a large thick tree in your house to get behind.”
“Another mistake people commonly make with cover is that they want to get right next to it and hug it. Most of us are guilty of it and I almost have to fight it myself. This is natural so don’t beat yourself up about it. That piece of cover is usually offering safety so naturally we want to be as close to safety as possible. The reality is that the further away that you are from that piece of cover, obviously within reason, the better you can use that cover to your advantage. It will make it easier for you to slice the pie when engaging or searching for the bad guy.”
“We also have to remember that cover can suddenly turn into concealment depending on the rounds that the bad guy is sending your way. What I mean is that a semi thick wall may stop a 9mm round but suddenly that same wall won’t stop a 7.62 x 39 AK round thus probably turning what you originally thought was cover into only concealment. This is something to keep in mind as it is not unusual for inner city thugs to be armed with AK rifles since our courts don’t want to lock them up for a good long time the first time that they’ve been caught committing a crime with a fire arm or some other violent act. And since we are talking about a deadly force issues here. I always like to put this in my videos:
“The preservation of life is of the utmost importance. Shoot only to save a life, never just to take a life. Deadly force should always be a last resort. Never just a convenient option.”
“There ya have it folks. I just wanted to bring up a couple misconceptions that I regularly see that a lot of people make or have with the use of cover and/or concealment. “
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Good timing, Funny(not in a humorous way), as I walked to check my mail and look at downed trees on my property, I couldn’t help but run several scenarios through my mind. With the angle, curves and hilly terrain where my drive way meets the road, I saw several ways to defend my property, all involved taking what is there and using it to the best of me and my teams ability. I would instruct my guys to keep distance between them and cover, cover being downed trees with large root-balls, large base trees and the sides of hills, this is in relationship to a “football” field, very wooded. Slicing tha pie outside. Take a bright flashlite, from your porch, shine it at the front or back yard and see how much of a shadow certain objects cast, the closer the light, the bigger the shadow, farther back, the smaller the vector of shadow, your eye sight will respond in the same manor….hold your index finger up at arms length, close one eye, things close will be covered, hold that same pose outside and your finger will hide a house. Do drills with your team, but give everyone a bright “GREEN” laser, this will give a better visual than just words…..play “paint-ball” wars, very real scenarios, just with paint. my 2 cents