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-: People tend to spend
a lot of time training with their pistol.
But in my opinion,
not nearly enough time training with their empty hands.
In a real-world scenario,
you're probably gonna have to use
your empty-handed response to be able to create distance
and opportunity to get to your pistol.
I'm gonna show you a couple very
simple disengagement techniques,
disengagement drills if you will.
I'll be using a Springfield Ronin operator
for demonstration purposes.
So if someone has encroached on me,
I want my hands up as a barrier here.
And I wanna be monitoring his hands.
If they make a furtive movement
for the waste, for instance,
which is a very common concealed carry location.
Or if his hand is behind his leg,
and I think he's holding a weapon, and he's threatening,
I'm not gonna wait there
and allow him to draw a weapon potentially.
What I may do is simply shove him here,
create distance to draw my own pistol.
And then my response is based on his actions.
If he is pointing a pistol at me,
as the target replicates here,
I'm gonna (gun banging)
obviously fire to neutralize the threat.
However, in the same type of scenario,
I strike, I disengage.
And now his hands go up.
Clearly I'm not gonna shoot him at that point.
I'll give him verbal commands.
Get on the gr around! Let me see your hands!
Those type of things.
One slightly more combative response.
Rather than just push
is to actually use your off hand to strike.
And what I'm aiming for here is the face.
I just wanna get my palm in the bad guy's face.
So from here, he makes a furtive movement, I'm coming here,
stepping back, drawing, (gun banging)
and getting my hits.
One point of caution.
You have to be very careful.
Initially, start this out very slowly
because if you're not careful when you strike here
and you draw your pistol,
you can get your off hand in front of the muzzle.
Make sure you don't do that.
Be very slow and very precise
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when you first starting out.
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So it's important to add disengagement drills
to your training regime.
You can find information like this in my on-guard column
in each issue of Handguns magazine.