\u00a0I like listening and learning from guys who have BTDT (Been There, Done That)…they give it to you with no bullshit. They have seen the Elephant and lived to tell the tale. One of the many men for whom I hold in high regard is the late, great Police Officer\u00a0Jim Cirillo. I won’t dishonor Jim and try to give his biography, but I will give you the readers digest version..(do yourself a favor and look him up..there are tons of good stuff out there, including his teaching DVD’s and books some of which are in our store).<\/p>\n
Jim was part of the NYPD\u00a0Stakeout Squad in the 70’s and 80’s, when the drug war was in full tilt. Jim survived countless gun battles, some as close as 3 feet! Jim’s teachings are in stark contrast to most “gun school” dogma, which is based mostly on competition shooting skills rather than how to save your own skin!<\/p>\n
One of the many thing Jim promoted was Positional Shooting with both pistol and rifle. Learning to shoot from any position other than standing, including\u00a0awkward positions you might find yourself in is a tool we all need in the toolbox.\u00a0Besides the obvious “other” positions you should be incorporating into your drills like kneeling and sitting, here is the short list:<\/p>\n
1. Supine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n There are two variations on this, the first mimics you getting knocked on your ass and shooting laying flat\u00a0on your back. You should be incorporating this into your force on force scenarios already…\u00a0The second variation is\u00a0flat on your back and shooting behind you, \u00a0drill one and two handed, with left and right hand. Drill at standard distances 7-20 yds.<\/p>\n 2. Fetal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This was a new one to me, and when\u00a0I <\/em>first saw it I discounted it’s usefulness,\u00a0but when Jim explained it in detail, it made sense. In a fetal position, on your side with your knees tucked up into your chest, shoot one and two handed at standard distances. With your knees up, this gives a decent amount of cover to \u00a0your\u00a0vitals, all except your head obviously, but as Jim explains it, he was almost always behind cover when in this position!<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0Spetsnaz Prone<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This position comes from Sonny Puzikas, former Spetsnaz Operator,\u00a0not Jim, but none the less it is a very useful position to drill on. Go to one knee and\u00a0with your opposite leg\u00a0 stretched out in front of you,\u00a0lean back slightly on your back \u00a0leg and bring your\u00a0 upper body horizontal to the ground (sideways).\u00a0This is a great position for shooting under or around cover. It changes your position both on the horizontal and vertical plane,\u00a0and also gives you 360 degree coverage, as you can turn very easily when you are that low to the ground. When drilled on going\u00a0from the standing position, it can be a very useful tool.<\/p>\n In closing, we need to integrate position shooting into our courses of fire if we have not already..an example drill is shown below.<\/p>\n (All shots are to Center of Mass unless noted)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 1. Target\u00a010 yds..Begin with full magazine. From Standing: fire 2-3 rounds, go to kneeling, fire 2-3 rounds, go to prone, fire 2-3 rounds, roll over on back, shooting behind you fire 2-3 rounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n 2. (2) Target’s at\u00a010 yds..Begin with full magazine. From Standing: fire 2-3 rounds, go to Spetsnaz Prone in one motion, fire 2-3 rounds into second target.<\/strong><\/p>\n 3. Target 3 yds..Begin with full magazine. From Standing: fire 2-3 rounds(gun held tight to body for retention)..go to Supine (Flat on Back) Fire 2-3 rounds Center mass and 1 round to head (failure to stop).<\/strong><\/p>\n Integrate mag changes and malfunctions by letting partner\u00a0load mags with less rounds and dummy rounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0I like listening and learning from guys who have BTDT (Been There, Done That)…they give it to you with no bullshit. They have seen the Elephant and lived to tell the tale. One of the many men for whom I hold in high regard is the late, great Police Officer\u00a0Jim Cirillo. I won’t dishonor Jim…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17],"tags":[25,216,217,238,189,239,7,240,49],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}