Can someone please school me on why just about every photo of an AR shooter you see appears to be trying to wrap his forend hand around the gas block???? Does this new rifle/carbine grip mode accomplish something??? I mean other than looking "tacticool" what does this do for you???? And finally, whether it does something or not do we all need to join in and hold all of our rifles this way, or is it limited to the AR platform???? Cant figure it out and I am worried I might be missing something here.....
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It's just the new "thing". Some find it easier to swing it on target.
I don't, myself. I hold it like I've always held the forearm of a rifle.
Maybe its actually better, but you know what they say about old dogs and the one about " If it ain't broke ".
Try it and see if it works better for you. Some of those that do it that way have survived several gunfights, so, just maybe.....
I don't, myself. I hold it like I've always held the forearm of a rifle.
Maybe its actually better, but you know what they say about old dogs and the one about " If it ain't broke ".
Try it and see if it works better for you. Some of those that do it that way have survived several gunfights, so, just maybe.....
Jessie;138602225. Some of those that do it that way have survived several gunfights said:But most that do it have never shot at anything that is alive.
Larry
Here is how you hold an AR if you want to win the National Infantry Trophy:
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JJEH
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So you don't like Chris Costa's "C" clamp grip
Arik
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Less muzzle flip. Shoot it holding by the mag or the traditional way on the bottom and then the C clamp. Less muzzle flip, faster follow up shots. I've tried it and it's definitely something to get used to.
Old Corp
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In the last LGS where I worked, it was pretty heavily populated with the latest crop of 'high-speed low-drag' 3 gun competition shooters.
I learned that to hold an AR in any method that I'd ever been familiar with before, labeled me as a 'Fud'. (as in 'Elmer Fudd') And of course, most days I was wearing some sort of S&W revolver, so yes, I was definitely a Fud.
Even though I was shooting competitively, and doing quite well I might add, before these boys were born.
And, the fact that I'd actually survived a few use of deadly force incidents in the real world mattered not, either.
I learned that to hold an AR in any method that I'd ever been familiar with before, labeled me as a 'Fud'. (as in 'Elmer Fudd') And of course, most days I was wearing some sort of S&W revolver, so yes, I was definitely a Fud.
Even though I was shooting competitively, and doing quite well I might add, before these boys were born.
And, the fact that I'd actually survived a few use of deadly force incidents in the real world mattered not, either.
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DWalt
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I've worked on and fired a huge number of ARs and M16s. Could never warm up to the design, don't own one, don't plan to. But I guess if the C-grip works, use it. The normal hold has always worked OK for me. I note that many M4s have a vertical foregrip.. I've not tried one of those.
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Here's a youngster at play... winning the 2010 USPSA Multi-Gun National Championship.
TheHobbyist
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As long as it is a safe hold do what is comfortable. I've seen new shooters cock a sw with their opposing thumb while using two hand hold, Chic Gaylord advocated a rock the baby hold for long range single action, as long as it is safe and gets the results you want
shouldazagged
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I've seen video of U.S. soldiers running training courses and using that grip. All of them in the exercise, as I recall. Is the military teaching it as a means of improving control of muzzle climb?
Ah, neophobes. I guess we should all be shooting from the Depression-era FBI one-handed crouch? And I'm sure once upon a time the flintlock crowd scoffed at those newfangled single action revolvers, too. 
This is the beauty of different techniques: most can be made to work efficiently, so pick what works best for you.
This is the beauty of different techniques: most can be made to work efficiently, so pick what works best for you.
If you are shooting an AR15 platform, you use the C grip.
If you are shooting an AR15 rifle, you just hold it normally.
If you are shooting an AR15 rifle, you just hold it normally.
LVSteve
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I have short arms so that grip doesn't work for me.
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I first noted that grip at an instructors school. When I asked "Why?" I was told it provided additional control in case of a disarming attempt. Took me a couple of minutes to remember that in the real world, that meant grabbing the front sight tower.
If used in an isometric grip (gun hand pulls back, support hand pushes forward) with a firearm with a long fore end, it does provide a decent shooting platform for those of us without much previous experience doing it the old fashioned way. And, as noted, it has a high CDI tactikewl factor.
I'll also note, the 3 gun dudes/dudettes don't have people shooting back or a need to dodge furniture, walls, team mates, etc..
If used in an isometric grip (gun hand pulls back, support hand pushes forward) with a firearm with a long fore end, it does provide a decent shooting platform for those of us without much previous experience doing it the old fashioned way. And, as noted, it has a high CDI tactikewl factor.
I'll also note, the 3 gun dudes/dudettes don't have people shooting back or a need to dodge furniture, walls, team mates, etc..
Remember how the cool guys used to hold their pistols sideways to fire them?
