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It almost seems that low ready and high ready are two conflicting topics. Just do a search on "low ready vs. high ready" and you'll find plenty of web pages attempting to convince you that one is better than the other. Worse, the comments will be filled with bickering on why one should be used and why the other shouldn't. Even worse, each side will cite that law enforcement preaches low ready while the Navy Seal swears by the high ready.
Today, I'm going to disrupt the entire bickering and preach the opposite to both camps. I have been enlightened by a real firearm instructor on this topic a few month back, even though it has been a training session for airsoft. This instructor is an active duty military personnel who has been in the thick of battle. His take on this issue is that low ready and high ready goes hand-in-hand. They are tactics dictated by terrain. So, based on that concept, can you guess when you should use one over the other?
Low Ready - When you are traversing flat or downgrade territory. When there are no obstacles that could entangle or block your weapon. When you traversing downward, you will likely engage enemies that are lower than you. Low ready would provide you with faster engagement. This pose also allows you to see with the greatest field-of-vision. Examples... going downstairs, going downhill, eye level tree limbs.
High Ready - When you are traversing upgrade territory. When there are obstacles that could entangle or block your weapon. When you traverse upward, you will likely engage enemies at a higher elevation. This pose produces smaller field-of-vision, because your weapon may block your vision. Examples... going uphill, going upstairs, low bushes on the ground.
Now that I have explained the instructor's training/reasoning, it would seem that law enforcement and Navy Seal should teach both. Maybe they do and that everyone is just full of it. But let me logically deduce why the law enforcement teaches low ready and why Navy Seal uses high ready.
Law enforcement activities generally occur in the urban area, which consists of flat ground. Therefore, based on the rules defined earlier, it's only natural that LEO (law enforcement officers) are taught low ready. However, it seems to me that high ready is very useful for LEO when traversing upstairs. Can you imagine any LEO walking upstairs with the gun in the low ready position?
I suspect that Navy Seal uses the high ready position because their area of operation generally involves water. So naturally, they will be using the high ready position most of the time, if they are traversing water at waist level, based on the earlier rules. Even so, should they use high ready all the time? I don't know? I can't envision them using high ready while walking down stairs. In fact, their rifle may even hit the ceiling in that case.
OK. Now that we have common sense--no one is going to use low ready or high ready ALL the time, unless they are just target shooting and shooting off their mouth--out of the way, let's put your brain to work and see how smart you are. I'm going to ask a few trick questions... uh... I mean... scenarios. Tell me if you would use the low ready or the high ready position.
1. You are traversing the street. There may be potential tangos on the rooftop.
2. You are moving down the stairs in a skyscraper. As you try to escape, tangos are on your tail.
Was that too easy? Let me ask you the ultimate brain teaser, then. While everyone is bickering about low ready vs. high ready, they forgot the most important detail... How high should you hold your gun in the low ready position?
Jake
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 03:27:58 +0400
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