In different situations through out your day do you train your self what would be good cover?
What are you looking at?
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This day and age, I feel like everything is a scenario.
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The greatest cover I always have with me is my car. Other than that - everything seems to be concealment only. Even walls, that I don’t know, I treat as something easy to be penetrated.
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In my area, large trees, car engines’, cement light pole bases in parking lots, brick covered houses and buildings, brick or dirt filled planters, just getting down flat on the ground out of the line of fire or in a depression, many choices but you must be quick. 
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What do you look at?
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Speaking of car I’ve been looking at gas islands lots of concrete.
What cover in Walmart or the local grocery stores?
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Just remember the entire car isn’t all that bullet proof. Aside from the engine block, transmission and rims.
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Local grocery stores not so much but Wally-world has cement light pole bases.
We are a Tree City U.S.A. so lots of large Oak and Maple. all around town.
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I’m thinking hug the ground around the freezer section.
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Nothing wrong with making love to the ground. 
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At work, in a distribution center, we have a huge section we call “Water World.”
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I can go and dunk under a robot cell… I’m small and they have about a foot of clearance!
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I find myself doing this yesterday while having dinner with my wife. We were seated near the entrance where I saw a car stop near the building, outside of designated parking spots and stayed there with the engine running for at least five minutes. Nothing bad happened, the driver probably didn’t care about the price of gasoline, he was just picking up someone who went to another store next door.
So, my immediate thought was if someone with a gun approaches the entrance, I would duck and make myself a smaller target while dragging my wife to safety.
Multitask: Create distance while looking for cover.
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Have you ever shot a 44 mag at a car? I would not want to be on the other side of a car.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=+shooting+through+a+car+with+44+magnum&&view=detail&mid=55A1FB2DE8356A75687655A1FB2DE8356A756876&&FORM=
I have shot through a telephone pole and a block wall with a 44 magnum.
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Yes guys… I’m aware of this.
I wrote that my car is my cover… because it is.
I’m not expecting anti-tank artillery shooting at me.
Let’s think realistically.
If we start considering AK47, we find there no good cover at all and every single day is the day we are gonna be shot, no matter what.
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The car car is good for what most would encounter on the streets. Get out of the car and get to the opposite side giving you at least 2 sets of panels between you an gunman. If possible, behind motor or B pillar.
Walmart tire and appliance sections would be best places to find usable cover.
In a grocery store, I’m thinking behind the meat section where they have the butcher tables, metal racks, etc.
In most cases where you are not the specific target, you just need to not be an easy target.
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9mm and most other handgun rounds will go through car doors and quarter panels like a hot knife through butter unless you are lucky and they hit a structural support. The West is littered with old abandoned cars that have been turned to Swiss cheese for target practice. Some of those holes are from rifles but a look at the ground will often show a lot of handgun casings nearby.
I have even read some self defense instructors recommend that if your car is being attacked by a violent mob you should shot through the doors and not the window. This way you are not breaking the glass and providing the mob with easier access to you and your family.
Best to consider the car as concealment if you aren’t behind the engine or tire rims.
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We should consider every cover as concealment, until we are sure it is a cover.
That’s the case with my car. I appreciate all the statements about covering behind the car. These are really the truth.
However, whoever gets a survival plan, knows how to prepare simple things to meet your needs.
- house → you know which wall is cover, which just concealment
- car → you know that engine block is a cover, rest just concealment. Wheel rims are partial cover.
In my case whole back of my SUV behind the second chair raw and below windows IS A COVER.
I strongly recommend to have at least simple plan not to be caught by a bullet. House and car are the two places I’m spending my time the most and I’m 100% positive where I can safely hide and fight.
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Living in a combative area, I have put bullet proof plates on the back of the seat and under the seat.
All the while I wore my BP vest.
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