Making a Padded Training Firearm

Here's another important tip from the Personal Defense Network Useful training tool for working your combatives and retention is something like this padded training carbine. I designed this, I came up with the initial idea and a friend of mine designed it for me and put it together. All of the materials that we use to make this can be found at a local big box store. Essentially what we did is we took a, a live carbine and an AR-15, and we copied about the approximate size of the lower and cut a wood cutout of the lower along with the wood cutout of the toe of the butt stock. And then we attached the wood cutout to a PVC pipe that we put on top here. We utilize some conduit insulation heavy black conduit insulation to pad the barrel and pieces of that to pad the upper receiver here the butt stock and different areas around the magazine. And then as you can see, we wrapped it with gorilla tape. This allows us, this training tool allows us to train with that pressure, pressure of like a real as close to a real attack as possible. Other training simulators are very very useful and we've been utilizing them for years. However, they're hard, they're plastic and they can damage your training partner creating some type of training tool like this padded trainer allows us to use a little bit more force. It allows us to strike training pads or and even strike our partners. If they're wearing appropriate protective gear. If you found this video helpful make sure to post a comment@thepersonaldefensenetwork.com.