 Let's talk about target presentation Hello everyone Dylan Schumacher Citadel Defense and we're here today to talk about target Presentation or at least that's the term. I'm gonna use. I don't know if that's a real term or not But I'm gonna roll with it. So I do some dry fire from time to time because I try to be Responsible, I'm trying to be better all the time dry fire. I do it in a mirror Because it gives me something to aim at right so I'm dry firing on myself In a mirror and I've done that. I don't know on and off for a couple months Whatever, you know, I mean not all the time I'm doing dry fire just sometimes when the kids are going to bed or whatever and I have a couple extra minutes and I'm able to dry fire in the mirror a little bit and one of the things that I've thought about as I've been dry firing in the mirror on myself is Target presentation often right we do dry fire We're doing it against, you know, maybe you have like a piece of paper or you have just like a plain piece of paper Or you have maybe like an ipsick target in your house or Whatever the light switch right you're using some kind of object or thing as an aiming point because you're really working on the mechanics To get in the gun out or you know presenting the rifle or whatever like that's that's what you're doing, right? So when you dry fire on yourself though One of the things that you notice is target presentation and we're used to shooting targets on the range and stuff Sorry if I screwed up the mic We're used to shooting targets on the range that you know are just standing there, right? They're just standing here. They're giving you a full frontal presentation, right? And other people have talked about this before right? That's not always how it is in real life and all that stuff But one of the things I've thought about is when someone's pointing a gun at you like this What Target do you really have here? Right now my gun and my arms are covering that primary box of where we want to be shooting people Right who are trying to kill us to make them stop trying to kill us right that that's that's the primary box And when I put my rifle out That's covering all that you see that the gun and my arms basically cover that entire zone So what what kind of target do you really have here when I'm presenting my rifle? Now again, that's a full full frontal shot You know basically if you look at this one more time, right? you've got kind of the left side of my head a little bit and Maybe here's the mag just below that you're looking at this is kind of my diaphragm right here So you're really looking at an intestine kind of gut shot deal, right? And my pelvis is open can't see that because it's not on camera so When someone's presenting their rifle to shoot you Same thing with a pistol, right if you're if you're out with a pistol that's covering the same thing, right? I mean my arms and the gun are again covering most of that box Again, you're gonna have kind of the tops half top third of my head Maybe some some side shots around my cheek there but really the top half of my head kind of from Eyeline to the top of my head and then again you get a little bit more you probably get above the diaphragm a little bit I think that's worth considering now I think there are two kind of schools of thought here one is okay, you know and that rifles up and it's presented Right, you got to take that shot. Well, you're basically looking at like this portion of the head, right? That's always going to be available the heads always can be available because they have to see you to be able to shoot you right, so if the rifle is up That's basically what you're looking at as far as Available target space the other school of thought is Just send a bunch of bullets over there and it'll work itself out and honestly as I've thought about it on and off for a couple of weeks, that's kind of where I've landed In the sense that okay if the rifle is up and I'm shooting right and this I'm the bad guy You're shooting me and I start to get hit in the arm and everything the target is going to change, right? When I get shot in the arm either because of a pain reaction or a physical can't change it reaction, right? Those bullets are going to hurt my arm. My arm is going to move one way or another Either again because a bone breaks and I have to move it It can't support the rifle anymore or because how that hurts and I need to move right so things are going to things are going to change and the targets going to Modify itself according to your ballistic behavior, so Those are kind of the two schools of thought and I think that the defining line in general I think I'm in the send a bunch of bullets over there and it'll work itself out target presentation doesn't matter So just delete this video The other thing though, I think is depending on how critical that shot is in the moment. You might not have the Luxury of being able to send a bunch of bullets over there and just let it work itself out, right? You might have to go for that headshot and those of course are reasons that we practice Shooting little tiny objects quickly and stuff like that, right? There are reasons we do that and this would be one of them now Do I think I'm gonna pull up every time on that headshot? No, probably not because I don't want to be fishing around for it when I could just start sending bullets, right? But as I'm sending bullets, maybe I'm looking for it Right because one that that's the only off switch in the human body, right and two It's gonna solve my problem faster, and I don't want to die I want the bad guy to die who's trying to kill me for a variety of bad reasons, right? So I hope this again this video is helpful just gets you thinking okay Target presentation and and we should keep dry-firing. We should keep shooting targets that are full presentation targets, right? There's nothing wrong with that per se the point is thinking about okay Knowing that real life is different than practice and that's always gonna be the case There's only so much you can replicate in that right you could do a sims course, right? Like a sim munitions course We're gonna have someone actively moving and shooting on you that would be that would be good It's probably as close as we'll be able to get and you'll start to see that target presentation more But for those of us who don't have time or money or availability to go take a course like that especially since the ATF just outlawed Sim rounds that only sold like police and military units now because screw you that's why So not all of us will have the ability to do all those things So I think as you think about targets right and as you think they make targets that that are presenting, right? They make target for the bad guy like this or he's standing here with his rifle or whatever But even on those targets, you know what they do they draw the same ipsick zone and it's right over Where where all the arms and stuff are and and that's what I don't like about those targets typically, right? Or they like have a guy here, and he's like holding his gun over here like this, you know, so that it's still open Again, this is just food for thought to think about target presentation Someone's pulling up on me with a rifle or a pistol or whatever And they're giving me that full frontal intent because they're trying to shoot me like I'm trying to shoot them and How what are my available targets and then how am I then going to navigate that right available targets? Like we talked about kind of the side of the head How am I going to navigate that? Well, maybe I'm going to take that precise shot because for whatever reason that that situation dictates That's what's available to me, and that's what I need to do or Maybe I'm just going to send bullets over there and figure it out And you know what I call the me and with all method which again, I think I'm partial to so I hope that's help We'll hope that gives you something to think about do brave deeds and endure