4 Reasons 300 Blackout Is a Terrible Choice for Home Defense

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Re: 4 Reasons 300 Blackout Is a Terrible Choice for Home Defense

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My version:

A Mozambique drill. Two to the chest, the rest to the head until they drop
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my ccw instructor suggested that one of the best tactics if you have to shoot a bad guy was to "button the shirt". or try to shoot the buttons off the shirt if you will.

start at the belt buckle (pelvis shot - instant mobility remover and two of the largest blood passageways in the body pass through the pelvis area) and work your way up the centerline
two main reasons
a) it allows the bullets to still have someplace to impact as the body is collapsing due to a hit if the pelvic shot does connect properly
b) if one hit doesn't take them down, you've still got lots of room to work with as the muzzle of the gun naturally rises due to recoil.

this puts your shots right down the center axis of the body - right where the vital organs are to do the most damage and potentially give you a one shot stop if you happen to hit the spinal column anywhere along they way. very little body armor accounts for the pelvic/low spine shot so this gives you a 2nd "stop the threat now" area to start with as well as most plates are purely designed to stop hits to the upper chest vital area around the heart/lungs.
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That's a valid gameplan IMO, except if they are wearing body armor, the time lost might get you incoming.. There's no easy solution with a non AP loaded handgun. Thanks, Reagan :roll:
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plant.one wrote:my ccw instructor suggested that one of the best tactics if you have to shoot a bad guy was to "button the shirt". or try to shoot the buttons off the shirt if you will.

start at the belt buckle (pelvis shot - instant mobility remover and two of the largest blood passageways in the body pass through the pelvis area) and work your way up the centerline
two main reasons
a) it allows the bullets to still have someplace to impact as the body is collapsing due to a hit if the pelvic shot does connect properly
b) if one hit doesn't take them down, you've still got lots of room to work with as the muzzle of the gun naturally rises due to recoil.
Wise instructor, must be a student of Massad Ayoob, he teaches something very similar.
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Badfinger wrote:Wise instructor, must be a student of Massad Ayoob, he teaches something very similar.

he's a student of hard knocks in the Inkster, MI Police Department. its not one of the nicer sections of the detroit metro area. they dont have time to screw around. he's had to use his service pistol on bad guys trying to do bad things - so BDTD.
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plant.one wrote:my ccw instructor suggested that one of the best tactics if you have to shoot a bad guy was to "button the shirt". or try to shoot the buttons off the shirt if you will.

start at the belt buckle (pelvis shot - instant mobility remover and two of the largest blood passageways in the body pass through the pelvis area) and work your way up the centerline
two main reasons
a) it allows the bullets to still have someplace to impact as the body is collapsing due to a hit if the pelvic shot does connect properly
b) if one hit doesn't take them down, you've still got lots of room to work with as the muzzle of the gun naturally rises due to recoil.

this puts your shots right down the center axis of the body - right where the vital organs are to do the most damage and potentially give you a one shot stop if you happen to hit the spinal column anywhere along they way. very little body armor accounts for the pelvic/low spine shot so this gives you a 2nd "stop the threat now" area to start with as well as most plates are purely designed to stop hits to the upper chest vital area around the heart/lungs.


I've been teaching this as a "vertical Tracking" drill for 20 or so years. It is a good plan unless, as stated, body armor is worn. Still, as I teach it, you start at the pelvis and rapidly track up to the head. 6 to 10 shots in 2 or 3 seconds with the noggin shots to finish the event should still work well.
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BlackLight wrote:That's a valid gameplan IMO, except if they are wearing body armor, the time lost might get you incoming.. There's no easy solution with a non AP loaded handgun. Thanks, Reagan :roll:
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plant.one wrote:my ccw instructor suggested that one of the best tactics if you have to shoot a bad guy was to "button the shirt". or try to shoot the buttons off the shirt if you will.

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cdynaco wrote:
BlackLight wrote:That's a valid gameplan IMO, except if they are wearing body armor, the time lost might get you incoming.. There's no easy solution with a non AP loaded handgun. Thanks, Reagan :roll:
President's don't write law - your Congress does. Well--unless its chairman hobama.
He signed it, didn't he?
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BlackLight wrote:
cdynaco wrote:
BlackLight wrote:That's a valid gameplan IMO, except if they are wearing body armor, the time lost might get you incoming.. There's no easy solution with a non AP loaded handgun. Thanks, Reagan :roll:
President's don't write law - your Congress does. Well--unless its chairman hobama.
He signed it, didn't he?
While I hate he signed it, you might consider doing some research on what Congress would have done had he not signed it.
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