Walt Wilkinson shows LAV how Gunsite teaches solo room clearing:
Walt Wilkinson shows LAV how Gunsite teaches solo room clearing:
His low ready really seems a bit odd to me. Back when I was I was going through training we were never allowed to have our guns that low. Bringing them all the way up and reaquiring a sight picture takes to much time. May not seem like a big deal but miliseconds count in that situation.
The Gunsite guy actually “corrected” LAV and had him go lower so he could see threats/portions of threats closer. Thinking more of a set up teachable moment, but YMMV. The logic explained was that he was looking for small segments of folks hiding behind furniture, door frames... and the wider a field of view the better. Kind if the whole if you can’t see it you can’t shoot it.
I'm a firm believer in being able to transition hands dependent on whether you are going right - lead with left to minimize exposure; obviously going left you are right handed. In order to minimize exposure you need to be able to close the dominant eye when going support hand.
Around 6:08 LAV was taking what looked like big bites, exposing his right foot. I'm pretty sure that was a camera angle thing, especially since they were talking about that very thing, but it is a good thing to remember - ideally when you are slicing your foot should never be outside the shoulder 'cap' thingie. I kind of do a side bend.
I also tend to kind of one-hand 'sul' if you would when I'm opening doors so I don't muzzle my wrist.
I would think it would be a good thing to have reverse camera angles by the targets on the dry runs - in the face of the target so you kind of get an idea what the bg is seeing of you.
As long as we are dissecting the LAV’s performance, I might have tac reloaded before shooting 15 rounds.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
I’ve actually put many ready positions on a timer across many people trying to disprove that low ready is faster.
Short answer... I proved myself wrong. Low ready is measurably faster than a compressed ready position (we didn’t do or teach high ready at the time) and I am impressed that Gunsite advocates exactly what my department teaches (if you can see it you can solve it, so keep the gun in a position to see what needs to be seen).
I thought it was a good video with very well thought out points.