I see guys using these stances on the web all the time and they sound like they know their stuff but whats the benefits of using these positions?
Pistol
http://alastartds-c.com/wp-content/u...1/MG_12501.jpg
Rifle
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2598/4...d07_z.jpg?zz=1
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The handgun stance looks like a modified weaver stance, which helps to steady the gun. The rifle stance looks odd, and uncomfertable. It seems like moving the forward grip forward, and setting it out at 45 degrees would give a better hold.
The military trains in a stance that puts the chest straight towards the threat. This allows the maximum protection of your vitals by your ceramic ballistic plate. The arms are tucked close to the side for weapon stability.
Why the examples you posted hold their weapons and position their arms, I couldn't tell you.
Last edited by btcave; 02-01-2012 at 08:26 PM.
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The pistol stance just looks like a modified icosolese stance to me. For the rifle, who is being run by Chris Costa of Magpul training fame (and now running his own Costa Ludus training group), he puts his support arm as far forward as possible/comfortable because to him it helps him run the gun better/faster from target to target, as opposed to closer in or how some people put their support hand on the magwell (which I don't like either). Many competition shooters, mostly 3-gunners, do that as well to help with faster target acquisitions.
Some of the snippets from their videos on YouTube show them explaining their reasoning for doing so.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever."--Thomas Jefferson
Its secret.
They both look extremely uncomfortable to me.
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