Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
By USCCA
Table of contents
Introduction
In the video above, Navy SEAL Mike O’Dowd and Army Ranger Angel Cortes from Defense Strategies Group will teach you how to escape a front vehicle ambush.
Learn to fight your way out safely and effectively!
Step 1: Assess the Situation
First, determine if you can use your vehicle as a weapon or mode of escape. If possible, slam on the gas and drive away.
However, if you’re stuck in traffic or blocked at a light, you need to get out of the car.
Step 2: Prepare to Fight Back
When a threat appears, draw your gun quickly. As the driver, you need to put the car in park to prevent it from rolling. Do this while returning fire.
Step 3: Shooting Through the Windshield
Front windshields are strong and designed to protect you from debris. When shooting out of the windshield, aim low.
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Bullets rise as they exit the glass, so aim for the waist or legs of the target if the threat is approx 10 yards away, adjust if farther. Alternatively, press your gun muzzle into the glass to create a hole, allowing subsequent shots to go through without deviation.
Step 4: Exit the Vehicle
Decide who exits the vehicle first. In this demonstration, Mike exits first while Angel provides cover fire. Open the door, block it with your foot, and sweep left to check for additional threats.
Move to the back corner of the car for cover.
Step 5: Provide Cover Fire
As you exit and move to cover, return fire. This suppressive fire allows your partner to exit the vehicle safely.
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Communicate and coordinate with your partner to ensure both of you can move and fire effectively.
Step 6: Family Considerations
If you have family members in the car, ensure their safety first. Get them out of the vehicle quickly, but don’t start firing until you know their locations to avoid accidental harm.
Step 7: Keep Moving and Assessing
Don’t stay in one place. Keep looking for the next point of cover and monitor the threat’s movements. Stay alert to threats from all directions.
Conclusion
Training is crucial. Practice these techniques with vehicles as props to build muscle memory. It’s loud and chaotic, but essential for real-life scenarios.
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I’m curious to know how well you’ll be able to communicate after one or more guns are being fired inside a vehicle, especially if all the windows are shut? Seems to me you’d be pretty deafened, although better deaf than dead! Otherwise a great video and thank you.
Cool video, good info but was a little surprised that the driver, O’Dowd, shot right handed from the rear bumper when left handed stance would expose less of a target area.
was fine with this until the communicate and cover fire part…………instead of yakking and cover-fire why not just stop the threat!