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    Individual Room Clearing at Gunsite Academy

    Walt Wilkinson shows LAV how Gunsite teaches solo room clearing:

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    Glock Collective Assimile Suvorov's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Amp View Post
    Walt Wilkinson shows LAV how Gunsite teaches solo room clearing:
    Thanks for posting! It looks like LAV has done this once or twice before....

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Warped Mindless View Post
    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.
    I’d be more inclined to compress, myself, but I’m also no LAV. Credit where credit is due: folks should take his advice over mine on this all day long. But, I hear you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Warped Mindless View Post
    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.
    At the Rogers School, the par time from a low ready to a hit on an eight inch plate at 7 yards is .50. The par time for the same hit from a high ready is .75.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Warped Mindless View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    As long as we are dissecting the LAV’s performance, I might have tac reloaded before shooting 15 rounds.
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TAZ View Post
    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.
    When I went thouugh my academy none of us had problems doing that without using a low ready position.

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