When CCWing my gun, I keep a very powerful Surefire light in my non-dominant hand. Thiis seems to have several advantages before going nuclear, a burst in the perps eyes will give at least 5 sec to start runnung (say he's got a knife). As well, if purused the light can make a great way to follow perp and keep him in view and if one needed to shoot, great lighting to see what you were doing (I shoot one-handed better than two, so at least I could make the possible choice to just use the non-dominant hand for lighting and shooting with the dominant hand.) If it had to be different than that, just tossing away the flaslight and using 2 hands to shoot is also and available option.
The other secondary weapon I was thinking of was Pepper Spray. It's disadvantage is aiming the stream of liquid accurately at night and with the non-dominant hand, and if you missed the eyes but the perp felt it hit his chest etc. he might be provoked or frightened into an immedaite charge at you, with a knife say, to stop you from squirting his eyes. In other words, it could percepitate a situation where you had less time to flee than with the Surefire - which is easy to aim the beam towards perps eyes.
So, I've been going with my instinct and carry the Surefire as secondary weapon. But I thought I'd ask others, as I'm fairly new to SD training.
Thanks for any feeback
The other secondary weapon I was thinking of was Pepper Spray. It's disadvantage is aiming the stream of liquid accurately at night and with the non-dominant hand, and if you missed the eyes but the perp felt it hit his chest etc. he might be provoked or frightened into an immedaite charge at you, with a knife say, to stop you from squirting his eyes. In other words, it could percepitate a situation where you had less time to flee than with the Surefire - which is easy to aim the beam towards perps eyes.
So, I've been going with my instinct and carry the Surefire as secondary weapon. But I thought I'd ask others, as I'm fairly new to SD training.
Thanks for any feeback
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