Walking towards your target?

[E. Fudd]

If you just turn and run, you can't outrun a bullet.

If you shoot on the move to cover, hopefully you'll hit him on the move and neutralize him as a threat. (Practice, practice, practice...) If not scoring hits, at least you might be making him duck, shoot less accurately, etc., sending outgoing his way.

At CQB distances, the muzzle blast and muzzle report on the downrange side can be very disorientating to the guy facing you. Sort of like mini-flash bangs. Can be used to your advantage to fight to cover or to escape the area.

[smle-man]

For a civilian to use it in self defense...not a good thing.

For the military to use it in combat...an essential thing.

Closing with a civilian antagonist brings you out of cover, and reduces your options for escape. You also become the aggressor, rather than the victim.

Closing with an enemy reduces his options for targets and cover, and brings more firepower to bear. Being the aggressor in combat usually wins the battle.

It is the modern version of the bayonet charge. Aggressiveness and intimidation frequently carries the day against a less determined foe. At a certain point the opposition will break and run when faced with this which makes them even more vulnerable. Just imagine the bad guys thinking "holy crap these guys aren't taking cover they are moving towards me and they aren't stopping!

[Res]

I constantly practice this to sharpen my skills. Thats why when i go to a range i demand at least 3 shooting bays for my lateral exercises. I also hide behind the wall, then pop out fire at least 2 rounds, then hide again.

[Sam]

I saw it in a scene in Black Hawk Down and wondered the same thing...

I was thinking of the same scene.

[Turbinator]

I constantly practice this to sharpen my skills. Thats why when i go to a range i demand at least 3 shooting bays for my lateral exercises. I also hide behind the wall, then pop out fire at least 2 rounds, then hide again.

Where do you shoot, that would allow you to do this?

Turby

[cesboze]

I figure if you walk towards your target, you keep their heads down, when they pop up you are moving closer, before you know it you are on top of them.

[NIB]

British SAS troops were taught during Hostage Rescue situations to run towards the bad guys while shooting. This would cause the bad guys to turn their attention away from the hostages and force them into defense.

[Capt. Speirs]

[UBFRAGD]

I was shooting up at Knoxville years ago and I watched an older gentleman do a bunch of charge 'n shoots with a five-round 12-ga while screaming at the top of his lungs. It was unnerving and I was behind him!! However after he left I did it and it's quite fun. I have been doing that for years now and I have no idea of it's "tactical" value just that it's another fun thing to do when out in the boonies.

[Res]

Where do you shoot, that would allow you to do this?

Turby

Hehe, Turby i was only kidding. But you can go to any range and do it once!!

[smle-man]

The Brits and Canadians used to do a course of fire (and may still do so) that started off with prone at 300 yds, move at a jog to 200 and fire kneeling, jog to 100 yds, fire standing, run to 50 yds, fire again, fix bayonets and charge the target! Now that is agressive training!