So I was doing some shooting yesterday with my cousin, who's a good pistol shooter.
One drill in particular we ran was a double tap to the chest A zone at 7 yds. He ran a stock Glock 17 and did it around 1.3 to 1.4 seconds as a personal best, from a safariland ALS holster OWB.
I ran an AR with iron sights, a2 flash hider, and G2S trigger (SSA basically, not a single stage super light trigger) and, from low ready (about 45 degrees down), did it in something like 0.6 seconds. I pushed it to 5 A zone hits in 0.98 seconds from low ready, which isn't amazingly fast compared to professional shooters, but it is compared to even some of the best pistol shooters in the world... drawing from a holster.
So anyway we thought of ways to balance things out even more. After some testing and thought while shoving ammo into magazines, we eventually decided that if a pistol shooter is starting holstered, the rifle shooter should start hanging from a sling. But we allowed primary hand on pistol grip to control the weapon as would be realistic.
The thought process is that if you're going to practice a 0 to 60 acceleration from patrol mode to contact, you should start with the rifle as you would carry it, just like you start the pistol as you would carry it. So the final starting stance was feet roughly shoulder width apart, knees NOT bent into a shooting/fighting stance, back straight, rifle slung across chest, primary hand on pistol grip, support hand can be on the hand guard, but we found it more interesting to start with the support hand off the rail.
We also tried a USPSA surrender position with the rifle (slung) to simulate two handed actions, which got us closest to pistol draw time, but it was kind of unrealistic.
Has anyone else done drills or training where the rifle starts slung instead of in the low ready? Any thoughts on training like that?
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Originally Posted by Koshinn
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