Dynamic Firearm Drills (Video & Transcript)

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Number of speakers: 1 (Ethical Preparedness)
Duration: 9 min 53 sec  

Dynamic Firearm Drills

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.”

EP: “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. Or if the bad guy is coming at me with an edged weapon then a barrier between us may cause them to have to negotiate that barrier which in turn gives me that split second longer that I need to stop that attack. In these videos the drums represent some kind of cover. Whether it be a solid brick wall, a tree or an engine block or whatever. But I also like to incorporate transition drills into my training. In law enforcement, if a suspect is known to be armed then we will respond with our long guns and our handguns become our back up weapon. However, if our long gun malfunctions or we run out of ammunition, then we need to practice transitioning to our handguns so to cover our butts until the situation is over or we can get that rifle re-loaded or the malfunction cleared or whatever the issue was.”

EP: “I also like to incorporate the use of voice commands so that I automatically give them when confronted with the deadly threat.”

Video Scene:

• Officer: “LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS”
• Threat: “Hell no, what do you want to see my hands for? I didn’t do anything!”
• Officer: “LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS”
• Threat: “You have no right to ask me what..”
• Officer: “Let me see your hands!! Gun Gun Gun!”

EP: “First, state laws usually demands the use of verbal warnings if possible prior to using force against a suspect. Second, you do want to, again if possible, to warn an opponent what will happen to him if he doesn’t choice a different course of action. Third, if you end up in court over a shooting you want witnesses to testify that they heard you yell at a suspect to drop his weapon or to stop or whatever and then they heard the shots. A testimony like this will back up your version of the events in court and like I always say, or like I usually say in my videos. You want to make sure that any force you take against the bad guy is because you absolutely had to to protect yourself.”

EP: “Fourth, in a deadly force situation you’re going to have that holy crap moment and you probably won’t remember to do something unless you have practiced it so much it has become motor muscle memory. So by practicing voice commands every time you draw your weapon it will assist you in automatically yelling out these command should a true deadly force situation happens. And like I stated earlier I also like to incorporate the use of communication in my fire arms training. As a law enforcement officer, no other responding units are going to know what is happening unless I broadcast it over the radio. I want responding units to have a good idea of what is going on before they arrive to the scene. I also want to request medical help for my downed suspect. We always have to request a supervisor to respond to a situation like that.”

EP: “As a prepper, it wouldn’t hurt to incorporate the use of communication in your training to. For normal life you can train by taking out your cell phone and simulate calling 911. You know simulate telling the dispatcher what your location is and that you were forced to shoot somebody because you were in fear for your life. Give a good description of your clothing so the responding officers know who you are when they arrive. Now folks, please realize that when I say simulate that I don’t actually mean calling 911. I mean to take your phone out and simulate as if you had dialed 911 and simulate talking to the non existent emergency operator. It also wouldn’t hurt to practice communications with your retreat group if you belong to a retreat group.”

EP: “If your group practice patrols around your retreat area, this is great training to incorporate because you can practice radioing to the rest of your retreat group that you just shot an armed intruder and what your location at the retreat area. You have to remember that if this is a true SHTF situation no body else in your retreat group is going to know what happened until you put it over the groups radio. The rest of your retreat group is probably only going to hear gunshots in the distance and may not be able to tell which direction the gun shots came from. If your retreat group does practice with radios like this I would highly suggest that you transmit a short message just prior to the start of the exercise that states that this is a training scenario and not a real event. Even with all the different radios and hundreds of channels out there you never know when somebody can hear your transmission and go into freak out mode over it.”

EP: “And lastly, I also incorporate stating over the radio that I’ll be beginning first aid on the suspect when I am able to. This is done because police radio channels are usually recording and that radio traffic is usually introduced into evidence in court after a police action shooting. So having a recorded transmission from you saying that you are going to start medical assistance to the downed suspect shows you weren’t trying to kill the guy, just to stop the deadly assault. Again, we should never shoot someone just to kill them, just to stop their deadly action and if we can save their life afterwards then we do. Now there is always going to be people out there that say a dead man can’t testify or sue or something similar to that. You have to remember that this scumbag criminal that just tried to kill you will suddenly have relatives. Relatives that didn’t give two snots about this guy before. These relatives will suddenly come crawling out of the woodwork to try to sue you. There will also be plenty of greedy lawyers contacting them to sure you also.”

EP: “Like I said in my past videos, deadly forced events are fast and rapidly evolving situations where a person has to make split second decisions on what to do. Doing drills like this repeatedly will help put into motor muscle memory of actions you should automatically do in deadly forced situations. Now folks, I’m not trying to portray this as the best firearm training out there, I just believe that training like this beats the heck out of standard point and shoot fire arms training that you see a lot of people do. This is just some simple dynamic shooting drills that we did with the little equipment we had. Like I said in some of my past videos, please remember, 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.”

EP: “Real quick I would also like to give a shout out to American Preppers Network. They have a ton of good information on their website along with weekly emails if you sign up for them. They also regularly give a heads-up on free e-book downloads that deal with prepping and the section that particularly helped me when I first got into preparedness was their section that helps you to find other preppers in your area. This ultimately allowed me to find other preppers in my area where I ended up getting invited into an existing retreat group that was already made up of good, upright and experienced preppers. So, check them out folks and I’ll put the link to their website in the description box below.”

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