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Hello Calguns,
My primary reason for wanting to own firearms is Home Defense. I would like a CCW, but the county where I reside right now is not a "shall issue" county and the politics here are not conducive to obtaining a CCW, unfortunately. Thus, I am looking into other LUCC options, but most of them are clunky and very "alternative" - meaning, not very deployment friendly by nature.
Focusing strictly on Home Invasion Defense...
I've been looking online and discovered several different names being used to describe training with a semi-automatic pistol such as:
- Pistol Defense Training
- Self-Defense Pistol Tactics Training
- Personal Defense Pistol Training
- etc., etc., etc.
I've read online brochures and have watched many videos of various kinds of "XYZ Pistol" training. The vast majority of what I see, places students in front of static two (2) dimensional paper targets. In the real world, assailants don't typically stand still and freeze when you want them to.
So, obtaining that perfect stance, grip, deep breathe, sight alignment, sight picture and slow trigger pull, seems like very good training on the fundamentals, but not necessarily optimal for a dynamic scenario at home at 3:27am when your brain has yet to boot-up the other parts of your body and the adrenaline is on overflow.
I'm wondering if there is another kind of training that deals more with the dynamics of something like - having to go down a hallway, or a staircase to secure one or more family members, then make your way to a safe room, or to some other more secure location within the house until the authorities arrive. Or, just learning how to properly get from point "A" to point "B" under the condition of knowing that an intruder might be in the house with you.
Dealing with a gunfight in your own home is one thing, but I have hard time imagining how standing flatfoot and firing at a two dimensional target that's not moving, helps you prepare for handling your own body's center of gravity as you have the necessity to move through your house to secure others and make it to a protective destination - maybe on the other side of the house, while real human beings with real firearms themselves, stand in the way of accomplishing that mission.
I went out and purchased a Gammo C15 Blowback pistol, and I work on basic safe gun handling skills (the 5 rules), my grip and front-sight alignment. I then try moving around the house with the C15 using cover and concealment when possible, pieing from room-to-room and down hallways while trying not to over expose my body to lines of fire.
I notice that often times, I get caught in situations where one uncleared room has a line of sight that conflicts with another uncleared room, and I have to pass through that intersection of sight-lines to get somewhere else. I then realize just how dangerous that can be, if I don't know exactly where the intruder(s) are located. I could walk right into their line of sight from either room.
I also noticed that hallways are very problematic. I always feel like I've just stepped into the intruders personal shooting gallery - like a fish in a barrel, whenever stepping into a hallway. Hallways bother me because of the exposure time. Very uncomfortable.
I'm looking for training resources (companies, organizations, etc.) that I can put in my database that help with in-home tactical movement scenarios like these. I hope what I am saying makes sense.
I know the fundamentals are important to practice (two dimensional targets), but at the end of the day, anyone bold enough to intrude into your home while you are there, probably won't be a static paper tiger.
Thank you.
My primary reason for wanting to own firearms is Home Defense. I would like a CCW, but the county where I reside right now is not a "shall issue" county and the politics here are not conducive to obtaining a CCW, unfortunately. Thus, I am looking into other LUCC options, but most of them are clunky and very "alternative" - meaning, not very deployment friendly by nature.
Focusing strictly on Home Invasion Defense...
I've been looking online and discovered several different names being used to describe training with a semi-automatic pistol such as:
- Pistol Defense Training
- Self-Defense Pistol Tactics Training
- Personal Defense Pistol Training
- etc., etc., etc.
I've read online brochures and have watched many videos of various kinds of "XYZ Pistol" training. The vast majority of what I see, places students in front of static two (2) dimensional paper targets. In the real world, assailants don't typically stand still and freeze when you want them to.
So, obtaining that perfect stance, grip, deep breathe, sight alignment, sight picture and slow trigger pull, seems like very good training on the fundamentals, but not necessarily optimal for a dynamic scenario at home at 3:27am when your brain has yet to boot-up the other parts of your body and the adrenaline is on overflow.
I'm wondering if there is another kind of training that deals more with the dynamics of something like - having to go down a hallway, or a staircase to secure one or more family members, then make your way to a safe room, or to some other more secure location within the house until the authorities arrive. Or, just learning how to properly get from point "A" to point "B" under the condition of knowing that an intruder might be in the house with you.
Dealing with a gunfight in your own home is one thing, but I have hard time imagining how standing flatfoot and firing at a two dimensional target that's not moving, helps you prepare for handling your own body's center of gravity as you have the necessity to move through your house to secure others and make it to a protective destination - maybe on the other side of the house, while real human beings with real firearms themselves, stand in the way of accomplishing that mission.
I went out and purchased a Gammo C15 Blowback pistol, and I work on basic safe gun handling skills (the 5 rules), my grip and front-sight alignment. I then try moving around the house with the C15 using cover and concealment when possible, pieing from room-to-room and down hallways while trying not to over expose my body to lines of fire.
I notice that often times, I get caught in situations where one uncleared room has a line of sight that conflicts with another uncleared room, and I have to pass through that intersection of sight-lines to get somewhere else. I then realize just how dangerous that can be, if I don't know exactly where the intruder(s) are located. I could walk right into their line of sight from either room.
I also noticed that hallways are very problematic. I always feel like I've just stepped into the intruders personal shooting gallery - like a fish in a barrel, whenever stepping into a hallway. Hallways bother me because of the exposure time. Very uncomfortable.
I'm looking for training resources (companies, organizations, etc.) that I can put in my database that help with in-home tactical movement scenarios like these. I hope what I am saying makes sense.
I know the fundamentals are important to practice (two dimensional targets), but at the end of the day, anyone bold enough to intrude into your home while you are there, probably won't be a static paper tiger.
Thank you.
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