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Old 08-06-2014, 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Rastoff View Post
If you're inside the house, it's already Close Quarters Battle. Maybe you meant hand-to-hand? (Don't ya just love semantics? )

All joking aside, this is an interesting subject. What to do when the ammo runs out?

If you've had training in empty hand combat, absolutely! Close that gap and take over. However, for the average Joe, who only has 7 rounds loaded in his gun that holds at least 10 , moving to another room might be better.

In the video his situation went from bad to horrible really fast. Stay in the house and die. Leave and there might be more bad guys. What a pickle. Grappling would probably still have cost him his life. It might have given his family a chance to get away or the police to arrive.

There really was no good thing to do at that point.
Yeah, the video presents a very bad scenario (in addition to its intended point). Presence of mind - and not panicking is key. My training would tell me to close the gap and settle it, WHILE TELLING MY WIFE TO GET THE FIRST GUYS GUN!
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