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Firearms Proficiency

The document provides principles and techniques for combat shooting. It emphasizes safety as the top priority, such as ensuring the firearm is pointed in a safe direction at all times. It also outlines fundamentals for accurate shooting like maintaining proper grip and breath control. Different shooting positions and draws from concealment are described to approximate real-world defensive encounters. Regular practice of these skills is encouraged to improve defensive capabilities.

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Firearms Proficiency

The document provides principles and techniques for combat shooting. It emphasizes safety as the top priority, such as ensuring the firearm is pointed in a safe direction at all times. It also outlines fundamentals for accurate shooting like maintaining proper grip and breath control. Different shooting positions and draws from concealment are described to approximate real-world defensive encounters. Regular practice of these skills is encouraged to improve defensive capabilities.

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PRINCIPLES OF COMBAT SHOOTING

BASIC PRACTICAL SHOOTING

1. Organized shooting is termed practical if it involves the three equivalent


element of accuracy, power and speed.

2. A defensive pistol must be capable of being brought into action from a


safe carrying condition with maximum speed.

3. The pratical shot delivers a decisive hit in the shortest time his skill permit,
but minute time differential between contestant are less important that the solution of
varied target problems.

4. A quick, accurate hit is meaningless unless it is a powerful hit. In


competition, therefore, a powerful minimum is stipulated and power increase above that
minimum are encouraged.

5. In practical competition the target is of a size representing the area on an


adversary in which a single hit with a powerful weapon may be expected to stop the
action.

6. The pistol is a defensive arm, and practical pistol competition is conducted


mainly at ranges typical of defensive encounters.

7. Practical problems are constantly varied, within parameters consistent


with defensive combat, so that the unexpected challenge is taken for granted.

8. Practical weapons and accessory equipment are not technically restricted


except as to insure safe and sensible approximation of defensive confrontation.
Weapon or equipment not suitable for continuous indefinite wear are not recognized but
innovation is encourage.

9. Continuity of fire may occasionally be necessary in defensive combat, and


is tested in practical competition. ( It is not the whole measure of practical markmanship,
however, and must not be overemphasized )

10. Practical shooting is primarily a research tool by which to discover that


instrument and system are best suited to the primary purpose of the arm. That it is also
entertaining, is fortune but not vital.
SAFETY FIRST

1. Before firing any gun, make certain your shoot will and in a safe place.

2. Be “Muzzle concius “ – know where the pistol is pointing at all times and
never point it at anything you don’t want to harm or destroy.

3. Make sure your holster does not allow muzzle to point any part yorur
body.

4. Keep your finger out of the trigger guard unless the pistol is pointed down
range and you’re ready to fire.

5. Make sure you have a solid grip with the drawing hand before you begin
the draw.

6. Keep the weak hand away from the muzzle when drawing and
reholstering.

7. Make sure you have hands on the pistol before you thrust it at target.

8. Do not disengage the safety or move yoiur finger toword the trigger until
you have a proper grip and the muzzle is pointing completely down range.

APPLY THE FUNDAMENTAL

A. The front sight is the key - A sharply focused from sight isa the key to a
perfect sight picture.

B. Breath control.

C. Grip and fire control.

1. Pull back hard with weak hand and push forward hard with the
strong hand.

2. Push the weak hand finger very tighly up underneath the trigger
guard. This prevents most, if not all, of the up-and-down motion of the gun in coil. Lock
the weak hand thumb over the strong hand tumb.

D. THE STRONG SIDE DRAW

1. Begin with a squre stance, leaning slightly forward. As the strong hands
graps the pistol.
2. The weak hand moves toward the pistol, picking it up almost immediately
after it leaves the holster.

3. Hands and pistol meet at centerline of the body; shoulders are slightly
forward of the center of gravity, allowing maximum use of body weight and strength to
control recoil.

E. BASIC BARRICADE TECHNIQUE

1. From the left side: Trigger guard and knuckles of the weak hand are
pressed into barricade. Gun is canted to allow free operation of slide.

2. From the right side: Thumb and knuckles of weak hand pressed into
barricade, creating a steady, tripod effect.

HOW TO PRACTICE

1. At the range

2. At home

SAFETY FIRST

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