Ask any of your friends to draw a pistol
and the vast majority will pull the weapon
from their holster, raise it in a wide arc
to the front and clasp it with both hands,
arms fully extended, peering down the
sights. This takes approximately a second
if done quickly.
Andy argues that time is of the essence
when you are defending yourself from an
attacker. By teaching people to draw in
a different manner this time can be cut
to as little as a quarter of a second, with
practice. To have a go themselves the guys
had to get up close and personal – and I
mean really close, less than 5ft.
The group practised forcing the attacker
back using a technique aptly-named
necksnap, while drawing their weapon and
The Pro-Tact Team: (L-R) Tom Troughton, Scott
Nightingale, Paul Webley, Phil Diggle and Andy Nightingale
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January 2012
“The group practised forcing the
attacker back using a technique
aptly-named necksnap, while
drawing their weapon and putting
(at least) two shots into the chest”
putting (at least) two shots into the chest.
Having done a number of dry-fire runthroughs, pistols were gassed up, mags
loaded and body armour put on ready for
the (nearly) real thing.
Even though you’d be very unlikely to