Training Holster Presentation Off The Range

Hi, Ken Crawford here from Reno Guns and Range. I'm a range manager here, and we have a heavy emphasis on this facility for training. And on that note, one of the things that we do here that's different from a lot of places, is we allow our patrons to come in and shoot from the holster as long as it's in an exposed position. And we get a lot of questions as to why we only allow that from an exposed position. One of the main reasons that we do that is we have safety officers that are on the range and their responsibility is to keep our customers safe. They're watching the line to make sure that the guns are pointed in the right direction. They really don't have the resources available, to ensure that nothing from the clothes are hanging up in the holster from getting back in. So on that note, one of the things I want to talk to you about is that something you can do at home with a SIRT pistol or a blue gun is, and it's actually very beneficial, is drawing from concealment to the ready position. One of the things you can do, and that's gonna vary between if you're just wearing a normal polo shirt, maybe you're wearing a hoodie, maybe you're wearing a button down, open front shirt. That'll change the draw stroke from the attire and also during the day, even if you're wearing the same type of clothing. Here in Reno, it can be extremely cold in the morning, hot in the afternoon and cold in the evening again. So at home I can draw from concealment and bring that to the ready position. At your facility, you may not be able to draw it all from the holster and in our facility, you're not allowed to draw from concealment or in any unorthodox positions such as seated, or definitely not laying on the ground. So what you'll be able to do is come in with the live gun from the ready position, be able to drive out and shoot. So remember, just because you may not be able to draw from the holster or draw from concealment, doesn't mean that you can't draw realistically. What we want to avoid doing is training to take the blue gun out into a shooting position. Instead, we're going to go ahead and tie those two different things together. We can draw realistically and in context, using a blue gun, to our ready position. And then we can tie that together at the range.