H2 - Bill Frady discusses weak-hand shooting, AI regulation under the 2nd Amendment, and local news on 98.9 WORD

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Broadcast Transcript Segment 1: Adaptive Shooting with Paul Markel Bill Frady: 2-Way Tuesday. When somebody wants my advice about anything having to do with shooting, my first thing is: I'm not an instructor. I listen to instructors. I know instructors. I can call instructors and say, "Well, let me ask you this question." So, I was asked a question last week, and I brought an instructor in. Joining me now from StudentOfTheGun.com is the original student of the gun himself, Paul Markel. Good afternoon, sir. Or, it's still morning where you're at in Utah, right? Paul Markel: Yep, still morning in the mountains. Bill Frady: You got snow on the ground there? Paul Markel: No, no, sir. Bill Frady: Well, I know it always snows up there where you are. It snows in August, right? Anyway, let's not dwell on that. My question to you: If someone out there has been a shooter for quite some time, and they are involved in some sort of catastrophic accident where they lose parts of their hand, or the use of their dominant hand to the point where they can no longer close it on a gun, and they have to switch to the weak hand—what do you normally do to help them make that transition? Paul Markel: Well, in a situation like you just described, it's not a "would I like to," it's an "I have to." You don't have an option. It's not like trying to be ambidextrous because it's cool or convenient; now you're in a situation where it's an absolute necessity. The one thing I would say—and we talked about this last week—is that you need to pick a gun designed so it can be used well by the non-dominant hand. 90% of adult men are right-handed, so most of the time we're talking about the left hand. There are many guns that can be operated with the left hand, but there are still some set up and designed primarily with righties in mind. For instance, a great example is the Sig 226. All the controls and levers are on the left side of the gun, designed to be run by a right-handed thumb. If you're holding it in your left hand, all that stuff is underneath your palm and you can't easily use it. So, you're going to want to choose a straight-up gun like a Glock. Most Glocks are set up so you can use them either-handed. What I would say to a person manipulating a standard gun with the left hand is that you don't even need to change the magazine release. The truth is, with training and practice, you can eject a magazine just as well by pinching that button with your middle finger as you could with your thumb. It is going to be annoying because you're not used to doing things with that hand. My recommendation to people anyway—whether they have one hand, two hands, or whatever—is that you should break your training sessions up into thirds. You should do one-third of your shooting with two hands, one-third with your dominant hand only, and at least one-third of your training and practice with your non-dominant or support hand. The more you do that, the better you're going to get overall. Bill Frady: What do you think about those drills where a guy is switching from left to right, left to right—shot, switch, shot, switch? Is that a decent drill just to get familiar? Paul Markel: I don't do a strict one-to-one, but I'll start out two-handed, then let the support hand drop off and shoot dominant-only, and then slip the gun over to my support hand and finish the drill left-handed only. We have drills where we have a student begin a drill with two hands, and then open their right hand, let the gun drop, and they have to retrieve it with their left hand only and finish the drill. Things of that nature. Now, the good news with handguns is that if a person is right-eye dominant but they have to use their left hand because of injury, just cant the gun. Just punch it out, and since your right eye wants to do what it wants to do, you can ever so gently cant the gun—not flipping it sideways, but canting it—and line it up in front of your dominant eye. Bill Frady: Yeah, w ...

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