A Closed Car and a Seatbelt
Dry-Fire · At Home
Verified clear, in your parked vehicle, at home, out of public view. Wearing your coat and seatbelt, run ten reps of the full sequence: check the mirrors, unbuckle, clear the coat, and get a grip without drawing. Then five reps where you unbuckle and get out instead. Driving away or getting out comes before drawing whenever it is possible.
Live-Fire · At the Range
Twenty rounds at 7 yards. Start seated if your range allows it, wearing your coat, and fire two rounds per string from the draw or from ready.
Service Pistol
Seated in a patrol car in winter gear is your daily condition. Practice in it.
Concealed Carry
A long coat under a seatbelt can trap the gun completely. Find out tonight whether yours does.
Carbine
Reaching a carbine from the driver's seat should be practiced with the vehicle parked and the rifle confirmed clear.
AUX (when ready): unbuckle, clear the coat, and get a full grip in under three seconds.
Find out what your winter coat does to your draw in the car before you need to know.
Your Daily Callout — By Archetype
If the car runs, drive. That is faster than anything you can do with your hands.
Keep the doors locked and leave room in front of you at stop lights.
With your family in the car, the best move is almost always to drive away.
Decide how you wear the coat in the car and do it the same way every time.
Layer: run five reps from the passenger seat.
- Treat every firearm as if it is loaded — always, no matter what you think you know.
- Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
- Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you have decided to fire.
- Be sure of your target — and everything beyond it.
Dry-fire: no ammunition in the room. Verify the firearm is clear — twice. Use a safe backstop. When you finish, say it out loud: “Dry fire is over.”
The Four Universal Safety Rules
Non-negotiable. Every drill, every rep, every time. This applies to live fire and dry fire.
- Treat every firearm as if it is loaded — always, no matter what you think you know.
- Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
- Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you have decided to fire.
- Be sure of your target — and everything beyond it.