Here is something we all should train and practice for, weak hand shooting, I know personally I don’t do it like I should.
Weak hand shooting is something rarely practiced by most. Unfortunately, the skills are needed all too often. Find out why here.
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^ Yup.
The possible consequences of everyday-life really is the reason that drives my work of the non-dominant side. I'd written about this core belief of mine, before:
Over the decades instructor courses always drew moans and groans from students when the courses of fire required non-gun hand shooting. These exercises always seemed to bring a perverse sense of pleasure from instructors (myself included) when those "Aha" moments of diminished gun handling and...
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You asked for Springfield only, so I'm not going to tell you that MY EDC for yearround is a Sig P365.
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Having the necessary gear helps, too, of-course.
And this is worth a bit of extra time and investment in preparing, before one actually needs it.
I most embarrassingly broke my dominant wrist this past spring/summer while I was recovering from a broken ankle and leg that I suffered earlier-on in the year. The way my wrist and hand was immobilized (for 12 weeks), there was no way that I would be able to draw or operate my defensive handgun....
The 360PD in a PHLster City Special - boy was I glad I had those.
Y'all should have heard my wife yelling at me when she saw how purple and swollen my wrist/thumb was the next day. When I fell (I was actually trying to avoid bumping into her, irony of ironies!), she yelled at me "I know you broke your wrist! I'm a doctor, I know what kind of injury that mechanism causes!" I of-course stupidly insisted that I was fine, but the next day when my lab-mates saw how bad the wrist looked, they just shook their heads in dismay.
I was put on remote work after that...the boss had me on paper-research and writing, until I healed-up.
