Shooters Bad Habit #12

Shooters Bad Habit #12 is a night vision habit that can be useful and helpful for yourself and others.

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all right hey what's up guys so today

let's talk about a bad habit i see

pretty often and most of the time it's

when i'm teaching

night vision courses for civilians or

night vision courses for

the military or law enforcement side

now the the bad habit is when dropping

or putting down your equipment

leaving them on

now it doesn't seem like that big of a

deal like oh i left my mall you know on

ir mode and just put it down on the

table but

what what that potentially

could cause is you forgetting that you

had it on or accidentally hitting the

actual fire buttons

and blazing that laser into somebody's

night vision or your own

so

um

one of the one of the biggest things i

saw at least in the military were like

dudes dudes just forget sometimes right

especially the heat of the moment um in

classes you know when you're overloaded

with too much information or man that

was that was crazy that was hectic

whatever it was

and uh people leave their stuff on

they'll leave it activated and literally

dangling off their sling

so just like when i put down my rifle

and i'm gonna unsling it to like take a

break or get some water go to the

bathroom whatever or i'm done right i'm

done for the day and i'm gonna put it

away like i go through the process of

making sure that one

i

unload my rifle because if it's not

unloaded then like why would i put it

down by itself and i understand there's

certain contexts where you'd be like

okay with it and you know that's life

but when when in a training environment

if i leave my rifle on you know the the

table or i go ahead and prop it up on

something or put it in a rifle rack or

whatever i unload my rifle that way it's

not sitting there just by itself hot not

that it's going to do anything but

if somebody wants to you know finagle

with it or whatever they they can see it

or if i come up to it and i see it with

a bolt locked to the rear with no mag in

it i immediately know the condition of

my weapon right so i can go through that

process the same thing when i put down

my rifle

and i'm not going to use it for the next

you know whatever amount of time i will

go ahead and make sure my laser's off

right make sure like i'm i'm good it's

unloaded and now i can put it down

now

it doesn't seem like that big of a deal

until it happens to you where your laser

or somebody's laser is just on in a

classroom and it blazes right into

somebody else's helmet that they're

putting down their their actual you know

nods on and guess what happens but i am

ruined so

big big issue when it comes to a

class-oriented place right where people

are getting tired they're getting

exhausted they start putting things down

and then they forget

but if i put down my rifle i unload my

rifle and i shut my lasers off and if

they have caps i'll cap them

right so if they have like a little

rubber cap like the raid or they have

the diffusers i'll throw the diffusers

on there like i'll cap them

the same thing goes for when i put down

my night vision so if i go to take my

helmet off and get a break

right i go ahead i make sure my night

vision is off i will cap them or close

my caps depending on what you're using

and stuff like that i'm gonna i'm gonna

start protecting them as much as

possible a lot of times i put them down

and i'll actually put something in the

way so i'll grab like a piece of

equipment and like shove them in the way

when i'm putting them on a table and

like you know chillaxing through through

reps or something like that or if i'm

like going through the shoot house and i

come out into the classroom and i put it

down to go get some water

i'll go ahead and put my my rifle down

right unloaded laser off laser capped

and then put my night vision down

night vision off night vision capped and

sometimes i'll even go ahead and throw

you know some kind of object one of my

pieces of gear or something in front of

it

just

in case

because even your daytime caps have

little pinholes in them and even that

little pinhole can take a laser strike

and then all of a sudden you have a

laser burn in that pinhole uh spot

that's visible in your night vision so

just something to be aware of guys i i'm

a big fan of like taking care of my

equipment as much as possible uh you

invested a lot of money into your

equipment why be lazy and then ruin it

or get it ruined or ruin somebody else's

because i don't know about you but i

don't want to replace somebody's night

vision and i know it's their fault all

that jazz but you also lays the [ __ ] out

of it that's your fault right you're

being you're

you're pretty much being a piece of [ __ ]

so don't be a piece of [ __ ]

but overall guys like just simple things

but it is a bad habit i see on the range

in a shoot house in a training

environment and an operational

environment too so just something to

think about and if you can

pay attention your stuff man shut them

off if you see people's lasers on go

ahead and go go through the process shut

them off so i'm a big fan of it uh if

you if you don't give a [ __ ] cool

[ __ ] shut the video off if you do

hopefully this helps you kind of be more

conscious of the condition of your

equipment and then you make yourself a

better and more professional human being

especially when utilizing your equipment

hope this helps guys take

you