{"id":16707,"date":"2016-06-25T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T20:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=16707"},"modified":"2016-06-25T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T20:42:55","slug":"armed-citizen-corner-video-off-duty-cop-ecq-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/25\/armed-citizen-corner-video-off-duty-cop-ecq-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Citizen Corner Video: Off-Duty Cop ECQ Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cqv2_BZcipI\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/cqv2_BZcipI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several Things to Highlight Here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extreme Close Quarters Shootings (Bad Breath Distance Encounters) are more frequent than most civilians or even Law Enforcement train for. Make it a point to make this part of your training every time you hit the range.<\/li>\n<li>A Smooth Presentation of the weapon enabled the officer to put rounds on target efficiently. Practice every part of your draw-stroke with your carry holster and street clothes that you would wear everyday. Remember <strong>SMOOTH IS FAST<\/strong> and that combined with the perp being distracted for a split second is what enabled the officer to get the shots on-board and into the pump house.<\/li>\n<li>The comment about Strong side carry (around 4 o&#8217;clock) being better than Appendix Carry (11:30 to 12 o&#8217;clock) in this kind of situation is extremely subjective and biased IMO. The same shot could have been made with Appendix carry if you practiced firing from &#8220;less than ideal&#8221; situations, which in reality should be practiced with any carry position because the street is unforgiving unlike the square range!<\/li>\n<li>At<strong> 1:11<\/strong> we see the officer rack the slide after his first shot has been made. Not sure if this was a malfunction clearance or just adrenaline kicking in and the officer was making sure the gun was in battery and ready to go?<\/li>\n<li>At<strong> 1:13<\/strong> we See the officer needing to make another shot because the perp was not completely down and was still armed. <em><strong>REMEMBER: KEEP SHOOTING UNTIL THE PERP IS NOT JUST DOWN BUT HAS STOPPED BEING A THREAT!<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Things to Highlight Here: Extreme Close Quarters Shootings (Bad Breath Distance Encounters) are more frequent than most civilians or even Law Enforcement train for. Make it a point to make this part of your training every time you hit the range. A Smooth Presentation of the weapon enabled the officer to put rounds on&#8230;<\/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":[3786,5445,5464,389,391,13,398,402,17,404,405],"tags":[6754,384,5688,470],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707"}],"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=16707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}