But the truth is, its pretty simple at its core.
If you find yourself in a gunfight, your shooting stance will not match your flat range stance.
Why dont shooters practice positional shooting?
There are a multitude of pistol shooting positions that you may need to use if you are attacked. Find a quality training class to learn the proper application of these techniques.
We will strive to answer these questions and many more in this piece.
Safety Concerns
Before I ask shooters to train any positional shooting, a safety brief must occur.
The basics of firearms safety apply, but the most important in positional shooting is muzzle direction.
When using cover — such as a vehicle — you may need to use a non-standard shooting position to maximize your safety.
The muzzle must stay pointed downrange in a safe direction or at your threat.
Simply put, practice the positions deliberately, with good muzzle and trigger finger awareness.
The Positions
The first position of positional shooting is standing.
The kneeling shooting position can take many forms. It can be very stable and helps you to work with low cover. You can also transition to a prone or standing position from here.
This stance and your fundamentals of pistol shooting should be mastered before attempting to change positions.
From standing, its easy for a shooter to progress into crouching.
The crouch position is a squat, or one where your knees are slightly bent.
Shooting from the ground may be necessary if you are knocked down. You may also use it when shooting around a barricade.
It will depend on mobility or what cover needs to be conformed to.
Squatting is often skipped, and the shooter may go right to kneeling.
With kneeling, there is left or right kneeling and double kneeling.
Being knocked onto your back doesn’t mean you are out of the fight. If you need to shoot, you are still able to do so. Training is the key to success.
With each kneeling position, they have a specific use when behind cover.
This is simply reversed when shooting from the right side of cover.
When someone is so threat-focused during the flight or fight response, footing can easily be lost.
In this kneeling shooting position, the author is still able to employ the fundamentals of accurate shooting.
The shooter slips, trips or falls onto the ground.
Knowing how to shoot from the ground is important, and establishing proper shooting form is paramount.
Starting on your back or butt, you might shoot from what is called the supine position.
Shooting from supine can be dangerous if attention is not paid to muzzle direction.
With supine shooting, the shooter will shoot between their legs.
Almost as if you are trying to sit straight up off your back.
Especially if urban prone is used to shoot from the left or right side of cover.
Urban prone is shooting from your side and then still building the upright foundation for shooting, but sideways.
This will cause a slight twist at the hips, but will allow a shooter greater stability.
If shooting from the right, the left knee will be placed on the ground.
The opposite leg or one on the bottom is straight and level to the ground.
When shooting from urban-prone and rolling on the ground, your duty belt or gun belt will be tested.
Urban prone or positional shooting in general is the ultimate test for gun belt pouch retention.
When utilizing a car for cover, you’re gonna wanna conform to your cover.
Maybe instead of standing, you kneel to the right and shoot.
Conclusion
Worst case scenario, you find yourself on the ground and you must still fight.
Urban prone right or left to get back in the fight and put rounds down range.
Some cover might be low, and the best way to use that minimal cover is urban-prone.
Urban prone could even be utilized to shoot under a vehicle as well.
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