So right after I read this earlier today my son was watching the 2003 movie "S.W.A.T" on cable, where LAPD officers were taught all those things you were not supposed to do with an AR-15 rifle. Oh Hollywood!
As a student of the more recent doctrine on the use of the AR and a lover of the AR platform, my personal favorite is the BCM Mod1. It is what I use one my personal weapons and what I recommend to my friends who are new to the AR. It provides superior comfort and control to the A2 grip profile. Of course, my opinion is only my opinion and worth exactly what you paid for it.
I find that if I don't acquire a proper cheek weld I'm likely to miss a DISTANT target. I don't know how to get a proper cheek weld if my body is squarely facing the target. Maybe you can do that if your rifle has an adjustable-length butt stock and the butt stock is very short. With rifles which have the standard length-of-pull (13" - 14") I can't even get my eye lined up behind the sights if I'm squarely facing the target. Would some of you AR fans explain it to me?
Squared-up stances are great if you live in body armor with hard plates. If you are in the combat infantry or a SWAT team, where you are paid (and ordered) to assault hard targets, hard plates are part of the contract. You will attack hard targets, and we will provide you with advanced medical care for the bullet wounds that hit you outside of your hard plate.
But if you are Joe Civilian, nobody is paying (or ordering) you to attack hard targets. You will not be getting advanced trauma care for that bullet wound one inch outside your hard plate. You will die of your wound, and your family will lose their defender.
IMHO, Joe Civilian should move like a ghost and avoid running gun battles at all costs. To the extent that a hard plate on your chest makes you feel bulletproof, they are adding more danger to your risk equation, not subtracting it.
Remember, for you, Joe Civilian, ANY bullet wound to the torso is likely to prove fatal. (Limb nearly as nearly as much so, without immediate advanced medical care.) There is no MASH unit five minutes away for Joe Civilian.
So to me, the entire concept of "squared up stance behind my hard plate" for Joe Civilian is fallacious from the word go. Joe Civilian should have the expectation that ANY bullet wound, ANYWHERE, will be fatal. The false security of advancing forward all squared away behind a hard plate like one of the robo-cops in a SWAT team is to me, just plain stupid.
So if blading is better for the transitional off-hand rifle shots from 50 to 200 yards, then blade away. Blading is natural, fast, and better for moving. Walking forward like a Robocop behind a hard plate is for teams of SWAT cops and assaulting infantry.
Who is going to fix that wound one inch outside of your hard plate? Get down in the weeds and crawl like a snake, move like a shadow, DON'T BE SEEN.
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So right after I read this earlier today my son was watching the 2003 movie "S.W.A.T" on cable, where LAPD officers were taught all those things you were not supposed to do with an AR-15 rifle. Oh Hollywood!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257076/
As a student of the more recent doctrine on the use of the AR and a lover of the AR platform, my personal favorite is the BCM Mod1. It is what I use one my personal weapons and what I recommend to my friends who are new to the AR. It provides superior comfort and control to the A2 grip profile. Of course, my opinion is only my opinion and worth exactly what you paid for it.
I find that if I don't acquire a proper cheek weld I'm likely to miss a DISTANT target. I don't know how to get a proper cheek weld if my body is squarely facing the target. Maybe you can do that if your rifle has an adjustable-length butt stock and the butt stock is very short. With rifles which have the standard length-of-pull (13" - 14") I can't even get my eye lined up behind the sights if I'm squarely facing the target. Would some of you AR fans explain it to me?
- Old Greybeard
Squared-up stances are great if you live in body armor with hard plates. If you are in the combat infantry or a SWAT team, where you are paid (and ordered) to assault hard targets, hard plates are part of the contract. You will attack hard targets, and we will provide you with advanced medical care for the bullet wounds that hit you outside of your hard plate.
But if you are Joe Civilian, nobody is paying (or ordering) you to attack hard targets. You will not be getting advanced trauma care for that bullet wound one inch outside your hard plate. You will die of your wound, and your family will lose their defender.
IMHO, Joe Civilian should move like a ghost and avoid running gun battles at all costs. To the extent that a hard plate on your chest makes you feel bulletproof, they are adding more danger to your risk equation, not subtracting it.
Remember, for you, Joe Civilian, ANY bullet wound to the torso is likely to prove fatal. (Limb nearly as nearly as much so, without immediate advanced medical care.) There is no MASH unit five minutes away for Joe Civilian.
So to me, the entire concept of "squared up stance behind my hard plate" for Joe Civilian is fallacious from the word go. Joe Civilian should have the expectation that ANY bullet wound, ANYWHERE, will be fatal. The false security of advancing forward all squared away behind a hard plate like one of the robo-cops in a SWAT team is to me, just plain stupid.
So if blading is better for the transitional off-hand rifle shots from 50 to 200 yards, then blade away. Blading is natural, fast, and better for moving. Walking forward like a Robocop behind a hard plate is for teams of SWAT cops and assaulting infantry.
Who is going to fix that wound one inch outside of your hard plate? Get down in the weeds and crawl like a snake, move like a shadow, DON'T BE SEEN.
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