Tactical Tuesday: One-handed training during ammo shortage?

[USCCA]

Maybe you’ve slipped on the ice and injured your hand, maybe you sprained your wrist during a game of indoor volleyball at the local gym, or you have arthritis in your non-dominant hand. All of these situations can leave you at a disadvantage when defending yourself if you haven’t trained one-handed.

We’ve talked about different aspects of one-handed training in the Community:

Tactical Tuesday: One Handed Draw

We all train to shoot one-handed, but do train to draw one-handed? I know I’ve done a lot of training with a two-handed draw, but I rarely train for a one-handed draw. What challenges do you see with a one-hand draw?

Tactical Tuesday: Can't Use Your Support Hand

Always during dry fire, one or two mags on the Range. Biggest challenge? Accuracy in self defense situation, which is not a problem with stationary target shooting.

Tactical Tuesday: Clear Type 1 Malfunction with 1 Hand

Mike Brickner is not going gangster with the way he is holding the firearm in this video. A slight cant is a common adjustment for the sights and to manage recoil when shooting one-handed as it aligns with natural body mechanics. How do you train for clearing a type 1 Malfunction 1 handed? Do you hold your firearm at a slight angle when shooting 1-handed?

With the current ammo shortage, how do you train for one-handed self-defense?

[Jerzees]

My EDC - dry fire with laser… and .22LR handgun at the Range.

[Fizbin]

I started using my browning 1911/22. Ammo is way cheaper and I have a bit more of that to practice with.

@Dawn, what’s ice, or indoor sports?

[Ouade5]

There are plenty of dry fire exercises one can do if ammo is running low.

Maybe it’s not as fun as getting range time, but it seems to me that a well-rehearsed draw and trigger squeeze are as important as anything else if you need to defend yourself.

[Todd30]

I practice with my Sirt laser gun at home and when I do get to go out and walk 2 miles in the 3 feet of snow up the hill bare footed to go shooting I have 10 shots at 4 yards then 10 shots at 7 yards and 10 shots at 10 yards just like I practice at home.