Gun drawing as an art?

[mercop]

It has been my experience that during real life situations the draw just happens, all of a sudden the gun is between you and the threat. To build neuropathways you should practice drawing and reholstering. I have heard guns hit the deck before when people try to reholster after a situation.

Drawing in response to visual and not audio cues (competition) should be stressed.

 

[Frank Ettin]

I don't know if it's really worth debating whether drawing is an art, a skill, a science or whatever else you might be tempted to call it. I do think it's safe to say that it can be an important art or science or skill. I think it's also safe to say that there are safe, efficient and proper ways to do it; and there are unsafe, awkward, clumsy and improper ways to do it.

I think it's a good thing for people who plan to carry a gun to learn one of the proper ways of drawing it and to practice that way so that it becomes, and remains, a conditioned reflex.

...I have heard guns hit the deck before when people try to reholster...

Which is why we teach and practice reholstering as exactly the steps of the presentation done in reverse.

 

[offroaddiver]

This is beauty in motion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYc5NXyIaYg

Would be poetry but doesn't last long enough.

 

[Old Grump]

Starting slow motion is how I was taught, speed comes with repetition, not forcing it. The only time I ever drew because I had to I don't remember doing it.

 

[Frank Ettin]

Starting slow motion is how I was taught, speed comes with repetition, not forcing it. The only time I ever drew because I had to I don't remember doing it.

I agree completely. What's important is being smooth. You become smooth by starting slow, paying attention to each step, doing each step just right and doing it all correctly over and over again. And you wil then naturally get faster. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.