Written by: Greg Ellifritz
Last weekend Buckeye Firearms hosted my Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting class at the Dillon Sportsman Center range in central Ohio. I had a full class of 20 hard working students.
The Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting course has been my most popular class offering this year. It covers techniques for gunfighting within arms’ reach of your assailant, retention shooting positions, handgun disarms and retention, and empty hand skills to use as a bridge to access your firearm. I get a lot of questions about the class. Here is a short video shot of me talking about some empty hand physical techniques to use against and armed individual and some photos for the class. Both should give any potential students an idea of what they might experience in a class like this one.
The lesson I am teaching here is in the context of options for an unarmed defender involved in a physical struggle with an attacker who is attempting to draw a weapon.
A few pictures….
Teaching body positioning to resist forward aggression
Students working at resisting forward pressure with weapons drawn
Demonstrating retention shooting positions
Live fire retention shooting
Working on some close quarters gunfighting movements
Stopping an assailant’s draw
Students working to stop their partners’ draws
Teaching an alternate way to stop the draw if opponent blades body
Stopping the draw while taking the shot from retention
Adjusting student’s body position to avoid shooting his own arm in the struggle
How to stop an assailant’s revolver from functioning
Taking criminal’s gun and transitioning to your own weapon
I hope the video/photos have inspired you to get some more training. I’ll see you at an upcoming class!
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