Do You Even Gunfight Around Vehicles, Brah?

By Bob Owens

Your normal “square range” training is great for working on your marksmanship and (depending on range rules) your gun-handling skills. It’s not very good, however, for dealing with where we’re most likely to encounter threats in the real world, which are in what we call “transitional spaces” between our homes and jobs.

Many armed self defense occur in, around, or near vehicles. That holds true for law enforcement and civilians alike. For police officers this could include both high-risk and “routine” traffic stops or in and around their vehicles when they arrive to the scene of an incident. For you or I, it might be while we’re pumping gas, walking through a mall parking lot, or returning to your car in the grocery store parking lot.

That’s where the art and science of Vehicle Close Quarters Battle (VCQB) becomes very important, and one of the best at Vehicle CQB is William Petty, who just left the highly-respected folks at 88 Tactical to start his own training company, Centrifuge Training.

He does some neat stuff.

You’ll note the very fast one-on-one fight below takes place between two combatants only allowed to use their left arms.