Drawing Pistols from Holsters

Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. What we want to do is understand that consistency once again is the most important thing. Consistency in our grip, consistency in our presentation. So what we want to do, is establish that as much as we can have that good grip in the holster before the gun even comes out, so we don't want to have our fingers open. We simply have our thumb over here, or our trigger finger somewhere other than just like this, fingers wrapped around the gun thumb on the other side of the gun with our trigger finger up against the holsters, that when we come out, it's perfectly indexed on the frame.

We then once we come up high out of the holster and we're clear one to orient the muzzle towards the threat, as soon as we can notice that this puts us right in line with that high compress ready. Again, consistency. We come through that high compress, ready, get our two handed grip, extend, touch press. We're gonna come back in assess, see what else there is we may need to do or worry about. And if there's nothing, we're going to go back through exactly the same positions to reholst her positively, And then we're going to relax.

Now all too often on a range, we see people come up out of the holster valley, diligently extend press. And in once the shooting drills done, they kinda relax. They stand their posture up, the gun LRM bends, the gun comes down to here, and we see all kinds of crazy things when the gun goes back to the holster very casually. But that's very dangerous. We want to make sure that we're locked in and focused on what we're doing all the time when the guns out.

Also, we want to condition ourselves that when we get that grip come up, extend touch press we come back and assess the environment that we remember, that we're still in a critical incident. We just fired a gun and we need to be very aware of what's going on and very locked in to what we might need to do next. We don't want to just automatically go into a relaxed posture, get the gun back to the holster and then we relax. Check out more videos, just like this one at the Personal Defense Network.