Holstered Concealed Carry Training. Train With Gregg Kielma

I can't tell you how important it is to have a solid draw with your firearm. How well and how fast you perform this, could be the difference between life and death.

What is a smooth and deliberate draw? Draw refers to the way in which one removes their gun from the holster and presents it.

Firearms instructor Gregg Kielma conducts live fire holster training at our outside range on a monthly schedule. If you’re interested contact him and set up an instruction date or class to be better prepared for an encounter, you didn’t instigate or cannot get away from.

There are different ways of doing this, but we teach a 4-step method.

1. Grip the weapon and clear any retention on the holster.

2. Draw the weapon out of the holster and point it down range but keep the wrist next to your ribs.

3. This is when your support side hand links up with your weapon either in the center of the body or off to your strong side.

4. This is when you present the weapon all the way out to the target.

Because in most real-life engagements, you are probably not going to be able to get to position 4 right away. The attacker is usually too close, or they have started to draw their weapon before you. To give yourself a chance, please remember situational awareness and most importantly time and distance. Why? Distance buys you time to react in a decisive manner.

I believe step 2 is probably the most skipped or not focused on position. This is where we see shooters just swing the weapon up as if they are bowling (which means they CAN NOT engage until position 4) or draw their weapon out and bring the muzzle high, presenting their weapon as if they were casting a fishing line (which again means they CAN NOT engage until position 4).

Please go through your draw stroke one step at a time and see where you could clean it up.

Then start practicing a good draw stroke 10 times daily, making sure that improved draw stroke becomes muscle memory.