Training: Ramp up your pistol skills with rollover prone (VIDEO)

By Eve Flanigan

Prone—it’s a preferred firing position for rife shooting, but a technique not many pistol carriers practice. In this video, we’ll take a look at “rollover” prone, a method that can help you prevail in defensive, target shooting, or hunting situations.
Why rollover prone?  Here are a few benefits:

Using the earth as a support for the firearm, or alternatively, the hand supporting it, offers unparalled stability for precise shot placement at longer distances—so long as terrain features aren’t blocking your line of sight.
Animals, both the four- and two-legged variety, expect to see humans as a vertical image. Being in prone makes a shooter difficult to visually discern.
Being comfortable with shooting from the ground expands opportunities to take cover. For example, a car tire makes a great bullet-stopping shield. But, defending yourself or another from beneath the undercarriage is a skill honed by practice in some variant of prone.
Shooting pistol from military, or flat-on-the-belly prone, is fatiguing and soon painful to the spinal column.  Rollover prone prevents accuracy issues related to breath, since the chest is off the ground.  It also offers breathability and mobility for shooters clad in body armor.

Rollover prone, left side, as done by a right-handed shooter. Note the bottom

Source: Guns.com