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DT Guy · September 13, 2009, 07:02 PM

Partly prompted by the recent situation in downtown Chicago, I'm beginning to wonder who is practicing 'non-standard' firing positions? I'm thinking about things like shooting 'behind' (around the side?) yourself, shooting straight down at an aggressor surrounded by innocents, shooting upward (chin shots?) at someone with innocents behind and below them.

This would be hard to practice on most firing ranges, and downright DANGEROUS for any but an expertly supervised student, but I would think these things have their place. A parallel is found in knife training, where you train to defend and assault 'around the clock' (the spatial, rather than temporal, clock) and both up from the ground and down to it.

Anybody already doing this?

Larry

September 13, 2009, 07:02 PM	#1
DT Guy Senior Member Join Date: February 4, 2001 Posts: 959	Non-Standard Firing Positions Partly prompted by the recent situation in downtown Chicago, I'm beginning to wonder who is practicing 'non-standard' firing positions? I'm thinking about things like shooting 'behind' (around the side?) yourself, shooting straight down at an aggressor surrounded by innocents, shooting upward (chin shots?) at someone with innocents behind and below them. This would be hard to practice on most firing ranges, and downright DANGEROUS for any but an expertly supervised student, but I would think these things have their place. A parallel is found in knife training, where you train to defend and assault 'around the clock' (the spatial, rather than temporal, clock) and both up from the ground and down to it. Anybody already doing this? Larry __________________ He who fights and runs away had better run pretty damn fast. Government, Anarchy and Chaos