Combat Focus Carbine Shooting

Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. All right, you guys are all familiar with the Combat Focus Shooting program in terms of the principles and fundamentals and drills that we use when it comes to pistol training. The same exact principles and fundamentals in many of the drills are gonna apply to the Combat Focus Carbine Program. All the Combat Focused Carbine Program is is taking those fundamentals that we already know about the way the body reacts naturally in the context of dynamic critical incident and the methodology for developing skill that will help you to be more efficient in those situations and applying them to the mechanics of the long gun. The fact is, that it's much easier to control deviation with long gun.

So,you're going to find that the overall majority of what you get out of this process is not going to be a learning concept, learning techniques and really looking at things very differently, which may have been what happened when you first got introduced to the combat focus shooting program with your pistol. It's really going to be about learning the mechanics of the gun in the context of a fight. The long guns are more complicated, to a certain extent they're going to be less reliable because there's more things that can go wrong. They're not as simple as the basic semiautomatic pistol. This particular rifle, the M4 , the AR is what we're going to base the course around.

That's what you guys are all using. Of course, we can apply these concepts in the same way to an AK 47 and M1 carbine or MP5, any type of long gun, where we're going to integrate with the gun with four points of contact. And that's really the biggest difference between this and the pistol when it comes to deviation control and it's a huge difference. We're going to start with the long gun, in a compressed ready position as well. We call it the high compress ready a because it's an easy terminology to use so that we're consistent.

We always talk about the high compress ready. And if people ask about what the high is, the high is actually going to be the back of the stock. That's, what's high, it's high up on your body. It's high up on your torso so that it's in a position that is consistent with your shooting position. We're not talking about the muzzle, the muzzle is going to be low.

All right. So if anybody were to mistake that terminology if you start thinking about a high muzzle type carry position that's not what we're talking about. The high compressed ready for us when it comes to the long gun it's going to be high up on the body with the stock. At this point, I have three of my four points of contact in place exactly as they will be when I shoot. I have my control hand, I have my support hand and I have the back of the stock up on my chest.

This is three of the four points. And the placement of the support hand is actually something that's been going through a lot of changes for different people over the years. We talk about being up here on the four end as the standard placement for that just kind of wrapping around like we would a hunting rifle. Many people in over the last 10 to 15 years have taken to putting their hand on the magwell now, particularly on the AR it's important that you're actually on the magazine well and not on the magazine itself. That magazine needs to be free floating in order to function properly.

It has a little bit of play in there, that's by design. So we're actually going to be holding the magazine well and that a lot of people like because it allows you to pull the gun in much like a Weaver shooting position allows you to pull the gun in when you're shooting target pistol. Well, we know that target pistol shooting that works just fine. Defensive shooting, we want to be more extended. And what, not only the competition shooters but some of the more advanced training that goes on in some of the military and tactical fields as well has shown us that that exact same concept of full extension controlling is far out from our bodies we can and getting our weight behind the gun will really help us to maximize our Riquel management on the long gun.

So we end up in a position where now what you see a lot of people doing is extending this hand out as far as possible, out to the front of the gun out by the front side of the gas block. Of course, this is a relatively short for ends. So I'm going to be here I'm still not at full extension. If I was using a 20 inch gun, I might be out at full extension. That allows a lot of control over the end of the gun and a lot of mechanical recoil.

So regardless of what your preference is your support hand is going to be that third point of contact. The fourth point of contact is your cheek getting that good consistent cheek weld. So when I'm here in my high compressed ready position when a long gun, my next move is going to be to raise the gun up and then touch and press. Now, you heard as I raised the gun up, I put the safety off just like with the 1911 as I extend the gun out I would take the safety off. To come back in, I take the safety up.

So again, always going to be consistent whenever possible to increase our efficiency. So our actions with the long guns start from the high compress ready into raise, touch, press. Come back down, we'll assess. And of course, we're going to start integrating lateral movement and everything else that we normally integrate when it comes to the context of a dynamic critical incident. The Combat Focus Carbine program is designed to help you become more efficient with the carbine in the context of a dynamic critical incident.

Okay. Sound familiar, right? Exactly the same thing we talk about with combat focus shooting. Check out more videos, just like this one at the Personal Defense Network.