- Once you have a good grasp
of the fundamentals of marksmanship,
it's a good idea to add some movement to your training
because let's face it in an actual encounter,
especially in armed encounter.
Chances are you and your adversary will both be moving
and probably quite dynamically.
We're gonna take kind of a baby step
into developing that more dynamic movement
with some basic shooting on the move here.
And for demonstration purposes,
I'm using a Taurus G3C.
The first movement we'll look at is going forward
and you may consider, why would I ever go forward?
Well, it may be that there's a position
of cover you're moving to,
or you can't make the shot from here.
So you need to close distance.
When you're moving forward, you wanna bend your knees.
You wanna walk in a heel to toe fashion just like this
and you wanna shoot at any point (gun firing)
during that process.
I'm not necessarily stopping to get my hits.
I just (gun firing)
walk and shoot is appropriate.
Moving backward is just the opposite.
I wanna lead with my toe so that my heel
can help detect if there's an obstacle.
I also want my body weight forward.
So I don't lose balance.
That'll look like this.
(gun firing)
As a right handed shooter
moving to my right is fairly easy.
It would look like this.
I just turn in the direction I wanna go
walk that way and allow my upper body to face the target.
If I'm a right hand shooter going to my left
things can get a little complicated
because you can get kind of bound up here.
What you can do is take an extra step
(gun firing)
and that helps you stay square to the target.
Or at this distance, you can even shoot
one handed if you needed to.
Once you get the hang of that type of movement
you can add a little bit more dynamic movement to it
by moving off at an angle.
In this case, I'll go forward and to the right
and I'll do draw as I'm moving.
(gun firing)
But you gotta start with the basics
and you need to make sure that you add movement
to your training program.
You can find information like this
in my own guard column
in each issue of "Handguns Magazine."