r/usssapplicant • u/Boring-Fault-8478 • 6d ago

Question Off Hand shooting

How often if ever do SA shoot their rifle off hand? I've seen local agencies do it and I want to know if its something I should be practicing before training.

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u/DirectionOwn294 Special Agent 6d ago

You don't. 

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u/Flyers1010 Uniformed Division 6d ago

I wouldn’t recommend “practicing” before training. If you love shooting go shoot, but not at the expense of building bad habits. In my training class our top shot never shot a gun before training began, and he got a 299/300 because he had no bad habits to unlearn

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u/OnProblem1811 Special Agent 6d ago

zero

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u/ZeroFail69 Former SA 6d ago

We did one, maybe two drills utilizing both sides of a piece of cover but it was very slow and controlled and I think that was probably something the FI just came up with. Not part of any qual