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Offline Hrfunk

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Shooting while moving
« on: October 01, 2018, 08:03:43 AM »
Good morning all! Here's a video to enjoy while you're sipping your coffee. In this one I'm getting a bit tactical (I'll never be mistaken for someone who is tacticool!). Some of you may be acquainted with drills such as these. For those who are not, I hope they are helpful!

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https://youtu.be/FfQdPvyFxQs

Offline MadDuner

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2018, 09:05:53 PM »
Absolutely love it!

Offline Scarlett Pistol

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2018, 12:38:41 AM »
Nice shooting and advice. Shooting on the move is one of my favorite things to practice. Worked on shooting on the move one handed (amongst other things) last week at the range.
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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2018, 09:51:53 AM »
Absolutely love it!

I'm glad you liked it!

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2018, 09:52:47 AM »
Nice shooting and advice. Shooting on the move is one of my favorite things to practice. Worked on shooting on the move one handed (amongst other things) last week at the range.

Good job! It's definitely a skill you want to brush up on from time to time!

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2018, 12:24:35 PM »
Great video!  This is an area that I seldom practice, which is my bad.  Thanks for making this video and reminding me that shooting on the move is just as important as stationary shooting. 

Another area that I am prone to neglect is low light shooting.  Home invasions and other nefarious acts are more apt to take place in low light situations.  So (hint, hint) maybe, as a future project, you will take up the task of making a video on shooting in low light situations.

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2018, 12:59:49 PM »
I'll keep that one in mind!

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Offline George16

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2018, 08:09:09 PM »
Very nice training video! I practice shooting on the move as part of my Dry and Live Fire exercises for USPSA competition.

Some things I learned include bending my knees and staying as low as I can in order to have a more stable stance while shooting on the move. Another thing I learned is to move heel to toe with the feet  ?rolling? beginning with the heel to minimize up and down movement as much as I can while moving.

Small or baby steps make for a stable and effective platform while shooting on the move.

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2018, 12:19:06 AM »
Most right handed handgun shooters will shoot low and to their left under stress, and 90% of population is right handed.  To counteract you should step hard to your left and continue moving in that direction to flank during a handgun fight.    One of the dude's "oblique" movement in this video was to the right.  Probability-wise, probably the best advice and course of action to take is move to left hard and fast asap.  And provided you're adequately armed for quantity of assailants, moving backwards, including oblique is foolish -- move sideways or forward, but not back which has a high probability for falling and/or backing oneself into a corner/worse situation than moving forward where you can see best path for cover, concealment, footing, etc -- in the military, there's a reason withdraws are at least buddy drills.

Foot movement, find somewhere rocky (with lots of random fist size plus surface rocks) or uneven ground and practice moving quickly while not looking at your feet. 
Football rope ladders and similar footwork drills teaching short but quick power steps are great footwork training as well...  Actually any football drills geared towards linebackers are superb for any fighting, excluding groundwork -- which is basically wrestling.

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2018, 07:49:53 AM »
Where we practice shooting in the desert does exactly that.  We generally traverse a small wash or dip that's littered with rocks and uneven ground. It does in fact make it much more difficult, but that's the point.  Backing up blindly is a problem.  A few of us have gone down while doing the drills - so that gave us the opportunity to practice how to fall down without shooting our buddies or ourselves at the same time.  So far there have been no NDs because we've all maintained some discipline and got the finger out of the trigger well on the way down. We closely resemble YouTube videos of idiots falling without spilling their beer. LOL

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2018, 08:14:54 AM »
Unfortunately I dont have enough property to do live fire drills like this, and our local ranges dont allow anything but static shooting (Maryland). But I do manage a couple of paid defensive pistol courses a year, and do plastic gun movement drills in the gunshop where I work 3 times a week. And yes, I will make a hard left from behind the counter to the back behind a nice big safe!

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2018, 03:55:11 PM »
Unfortunately I dont have enough property to do live fire drills like this, and our local ranges dont allow anything but static shooting (Maryland). But I do manage a couple of paid defensive pistol courses a year, and do plastic gun movement drills in the gunshop where I work 3 times a week. And yes, I will make a hard left from behind the counter to the back behind a nice big safe!

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Some of the airsoft guns use battery to create action movement in addition to firing airsoft plastic bbs.  Regular CO2 BB guns are available as well -- both in similar configurations/versions of your standard guns.

Also, the laserlyte is good for home training as well.

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2018, 04:32:58 PM »
I have an airsoft pistol, but it doesnt have recoil.

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2018, 12:43:11 PM »
Informative and entertaining!! Well done sir.

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Re: Shooting while moving
« Reply #14 on: October 13, 2018, 05:06:59 PM »
We did shooting while moving drills this morning in the rain....
Our cardboard targets got soggy, our boots got muddy, our lack of accuracy was embarrassing, and we thoroughly enjoyed every single second of it any way!