Thanks for the replies, it's difficult to be able to discuss this stuff locally as most folks don't go down the rabbit hole this deep (as you know) and I'm not part of law enforcement.
You mention Police training. Off side shooting IS taught, but its as a result of injury not tactical geometry.
I see, maybe that explains why I've seen more 1 handed rather than 2 handed non-dominant drills. Right hand/arm disabled. I haven't done much IDPA but I noticed they only run 1 handed non-dominant scenarios. So a two handed non-dominant hold as a result of injury might be if your strong hand fingers were buggered up but you decide you still had enough clamping power for a second hand on the gun to be a benefit rather than a hindrance. It would take a good bit of practice for to feel like 2 hand non-dominant is better than 1 handed, as all non-dominant live fire still feels strange
If not switching hands and clearing a corner on your support side, you can cant the pistol in your hand slightly (rotate the top of the slide towards the support side ) to help expose more of the space you’re looking into
Great tip, I'll have try that one too. Hadn't thought of that one.
I’ll admit though that I’m a cross eye dominant shooter, and switching hands actually puts the pistol in front of my dominant eye. However, shooting normally I still use my dominant eye.
Haha! Well, I write left handed, but all strength requiring activities and tools/instruments I do with my right side dominant. I figured it would be less expensive way back when. So I could have decent trigger control with my left, but that's about it.
For me, switching hands and eyes works best when going around a corner to my strong side.
I think we are in agreement, in my mind I was picturing the layout of the downstairs of my house, where there's a shared wall between the living room, kitchen, and dining room. So if I walk laps around in a clockwise pattern, I'm choosing to take the path on my left, but the actual corner and direction to clear is to the right.
I'll tell you now, trying make myself go to the non-dominant eye after switching hands was difficult (but that's only after trying it once). I was only able to do it by closing my right eye, and I'm not sure I'd want to do that in close quarters. I'll try them all though.
It feels much less awkward and it reduces the amount of me that is exposed around the corner by a lot.
I can think of one situation where the advantage in switching hands would be apparent. Checking a very small corner fed space like a closet with no room to pie off angles.
If you do switch hands, you need to practice a LOT. That's not the time to fumble a gun
JohnKSa, since you're on board with switching hands, are you used it enough your training that now you switch at nearly every right sided corner? Or special circumstances only? Like you said, it seems like a lot of chance to fumble and I'm just picturing myself shuffling that pistol every few seconds and dropping it. Perhaps I should avoid my P320 for a while (drop safety joke)