Cover and Reloading in a Multiple Person Response

Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. Whenever we have two people with firearms involved in a critical incident, there may come a time that one person has to reload and is not able to bear responsibility for covering or engaging a target that the other person may assume was being covered or engaged by that second gun. Of course, that's a reasonable expectation, we wanna use our cooperation and our communication to explain to the other person, "Hey, I'm reloading." And it may be that simple. We don't have to use fancy codewords or any kind of complex set of clicks and beeps and whistles to let someone know that we're reloading, it may just be that simple. "We are reloading. "I'm reloading, I'm out. "Cover right, watch this guy." Whatever it is you're gonna say. Let's take a look at John and Jeremiah on the range interacting with each other as one may need to reload in the middle of a critical incident or they both need to reload, or they've simply engaged their targets and they're ready to move on. That's what's good about having two people with guns, right? If one gun goes down, then the other person can cover their area of responsibility. We don't wanna cover the person who's reloading if you still have a threat in your area. You wanna deal with your threats before you can cover somebody else. When doing this, you wanna move toward the person who is reloading. Once again, if your area is clear. The reason you wanna move to them is because they might have an angle that you cannot see. If I'm way on the left and the other shooter's way on the right and he has to reload, once again, there might be an angle that I can't see from way down to the left. Communication is gonna be important here, whatever you're gonna say, you wanna be clear and concise. Whether it's, "I'm out of bullets," or, "I'm reloading," make sure you get that down. That's the coordination part of the three Cs, is getting the verbiage down, making sure that it's clear and concise. If it's not clear and concise and you don't hear bullets coming from your friend that was shooting before, you wanna see what's going on, so that's where the coordination comes in. So if you see somebody reloading, you wanna move to cover their area of responsibility if you don't have anything in yours. Now we're gonna show you how this works, how moving toward the man who's reloading using the communication, the coordination if there is no communication. Up. Reloading. I've got cover for you. Up. I'm up, my gun's loaded. Good, everything's good? Good, I'm good. Up. Up. Reloading. I'm out of bullets. I'm out of bullets. Everything good? I'm good, you good? Everything's good. All right. Up. I'm reloading. Reloading. Good. I'm out, I'm out. I'm good over here but I'm out. So this is a drill that we'll use to work on communication and cooperation. You'll see we both ran out of bullets at the same time, right? So we kept moving laterally, the only thing that we could do to significantly affect the target's ability to present a lethal threat because both guns were down at the same time. Another important facet of that drill is communication, right? Whether it's clear, clearing, whatever you wanna use to make sure that it's concise, clear and everybody understands it. Not only your train partner, but everyday people on the street with a concealed carry permit. Check out more videos just like this one at the Personal Defense Network.