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Derek_Connor
I never seen it taught with pistol before, but muzzle up has its place when it comes to rifle. Chris Costa was the first one to introduce it to me, and depending on your situation, moving around friendlies, barricades etc, keeping your muzzle oriented up instead of dropping it down to the ground makes more sense..
Brother, Keep in mind that its ONLY used when moving during IA type drills and its not a muzzle strait up thing its more angled... And like you mention... to avoid flagging teammates while reloading on the run.
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You absolutely must not know what you're talking about nor have you spent much time in a kill house. Do not be putting shit like that out, with that said...
A vast majority of the work I have done in training has been in a kill house or urban type scenario.
Think about this....
You're entering a primary entry point or just a room on target and you have your muzzle down, an unknown sees your muzzle pointing down and grabs the muzzle and pushes it down, with intent to take this fight to the ground, and who knows from there. You are now in a position where you have little to no power or distance between you and the unknown to react with your primary. Hadj gets the gun and kills you with your own heater.
Or this....
Same scenario but you have your weapon broken down (ready to strike at a combat high ready) when you pass through the threshhold and there's some stinky ass hadji there, you stand your ground and strike his ass in the chest because he's an unknown and you need to get him on the floor so you can finish your clearance. He is now on the floor trying to breath or about to kill over from your muzzle strike.
You do this instinctively because you don't know what his intent was, but you got him before he got you because of prepardiness.
You have 80% more power when you are striking from a high ready than if you were unprepared at the low ready.
There's a huge difference between the way we high ready and the pics in this thread, that's some keystone cop shit.
Don't get me wrong, there is a time, place, and event for low porting your weps.
That's Dieter Philosophy... Which the teams took on and now have trashed... They have finally gotten smart and realized that the hand fighter can not influence the gunfighters methodologies. Last I checked if I entered a house and a Unknown grabbed my barrel he is no longer a Unknown... there are SOPs for that kind of thing in teams to deal with such problems... Plus in a military role if a "Unknown grabbed my barrel and a threat came out behind then that in known would most likely crawl away with a lap full of lead.