The Tactical Advantage: A Definitive Study Of Personal Small-Arms Tactics by Gabriel Suarez

Author:Gabriel Suarez
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Published: 2009-11-24T09:15:00+00:00

The Harries flashlight ready and firing position is the best method for integrating pistol and light. It is both stress- and recoil-resistant.

If you are illuminating the apex of a corner as you clear it, you must light from the bottom corner of the apex wall upward. If you keep your weapon up all the time, you might miss an important target indicator near the floor, such as the toe of a shoe or even an adversary lying prone.

If you are scanning a large room or a room from a doorway before entering the room, you have the option of scanning with the light along a horizontal axis-in essence, sweeping the room with light. Once one sweep is executed, move carefully to another position and repeat the process. The main difference between the corner and the doorway (and even the T-intersection) is that with a single corner you have one potential danger area, whereas with a room or hallway intersection you have many. That is why you must sweep the area instead of focusing the beam on a specific danger area. The same goes for stairways.

If you encounter a hostile, keep the light on him-preferably on his eyes so that his vision and reactions will be impaired. Obviously, if he is armed and you are out in the open without cover, you'd shoot him. If you do not need to shoot him, then you must place him in a situation that gives you reasonable control over his movements. Order him to keep his hands up, get flat on his stomach on the floor, etc. At such times, keep the light directly on him. If you allow your light to go off, and he decides to attack you at that moment, you will not see him do ii until it is too late.

If the hostile turns out to be an innocent party, shining your light in his eyes will conceal your gun pointed at him. If neees sary, you can even keep the light pointed toward his face while you reholster. He will never know you had him "covered."

Realize that the instant your light goes on two things will happen. One is that your "night vision" will diminish. If you "light-scan-turn off-and-move," your eyesight will not have adjusted to the change in light enough to be able to see very well in the dark environment. One technique that I've tried with varying degrees of success is to close my shooting eye whenever I turn the light on. You are scanning for hostiles, not shooting. You can scan just as easily with your other eye as you can with your master shooting eye. This way, when the light goes off, your shooting eye will still have some degree of night-vision capabilities. If you encounter a threat while scanning, it is a simple matter to open the other eye as the pistol intercedes the line of sight and you reflexively look for the front sight. In any case, at that point, shooting your adversary will supersede the preservation of night vision.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.