Smaller target? Really? Squaring yourself up to the target area properly aligns your plate carrier and/or soft armor to protect your vitals, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't do anything to reduce cross-section. If anything, the opposite is true compared to a bladed stance, which of course has the notable downside of pointing your rifle plates away from incoming fire.Originally Posted by ffhounddog
I find it funny that its assumed fire fights always start or end perfectly facing a target. Recoil management is what really came out of this technique.. Not optimum protection.
Last edited by breakingtime91; 01-07-2014 at 10:54 PM.
I've been doing this for a long time. Came from my shotgun technique. It was always hard to find a perfect pocket with armor on, and I could shoot a lot with magnum buck and slugs by shooting off my armor over the pecs rather than in the shoulder. I just carried it over to the carbine. I first saw the technique and adopted it from one of our officers who was a very serious skeet and trap shooter. He had a weird stance that had the shotgun almost centered in the chest and used perfectly fitted Krieghoff's. Guy was amazing and I saw the advantage of his stance and shotgun placement.
Just a Hairy Special Snowflake supply clerk with no field experience, shooting an Asymetric carbine as a Try Hard. Snarky and easily butt hurt. Favorite animal is the Cape Buffalo....likely indicative of a personality disorder.
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You bring up an interesting point, D. While I can shoot 5.45 and 5.56 in just a t-shirt all day long, I'm a lot happier shooting shotguns and larger-caliber rifles with my Limbsaver pad on. I've already been considering picking up a soft-armor vest, mostly because I've been muzzle-swept enough times at public ranges in the last few years to think ballistic protection would be a good idea. I can't take credit for this idea -- several of my friends went down this road years ago after some incidents at ranges here in the Bay Area.
Would a Level II concealable-type vest yield roughly the same recoil-dispersing effect as a Limbsaver pad? Or would I need to step up to a thicker/heavier vest to get that?
I'm with Caleb, only I'm no expert. Especially when it comes to carbines.
I do however find "as close to centerline" to be perfect for me. I notice it most in follow up shots. With a brake and a suppressor and 5.56, the gun seriously doesn't move. I can rattle off as fast as I can pull the trigger. Transitions are smooth (but I need a lot of practice), and the speed from low ready to firing is a hair faster in my experience. As the gun rolls onto my centerline, I'm already doing the push/pull method before I'm on my sights. With the "pocket" position, my perception is that I have to wait for the gun to "settle" before I can push/pull.
That's just my experience, and I'm sure there are many more qualified and more knowledgeable than me.
This works especially well for home defense since I sleep in armor.
...and now I've got the image of Kevlar footies in my head. Thanks a whole bunch.
Don't own any armor myself.
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