Temple index?
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September 16th, 2014 at 7:06 pm
This is a very specific technique, talk to a very specific group of individuals, for use under very specific circumstances.
It is basically A technique to use when pointing the gun anywhere else would be flagging someone or something important.
September 16th, 2014 at 8:52 pm
I use this now and then, and ^^^ is correct. You do this when you have to, or want to, it’s perfectly valid.
The assclowns making fun of it almost without exception have no low light or vehicle training…. Or lowlight vehicle training 😉 which is where this technique really shines for me (pun). They’re by far worse than the people using a temple index just because they saw someone else do it. At least the latter group of monkeys has a chance of figuring it out for themselves.
I’ll admit, I don’t often lock dead on the temple, most or the time I just use a “high port”, same thing just not touching my head. In vehicle this is a 100% must because otherwise you ARE flagging something important or someone.
Low light it’s key if you only have a weapon light, are indoors, and don’t want to point that light at an unknown object. By carrying high port (ten gun, temple index, whatever) you can light the ceiling. 500lums on the ceiling means DAYLIGHT in the room for an instant.
Fucking assclowns on both sides makes me almost want to agree with antis for mandatory training 😉
September 16th, 2014 at 9:58 pm
I look at it… and I just see someone getting their elbow jostled and ending up with one in their temple. I can see that it would have some tactical applicability in certain situations. But the possible drawbacks frighten me.
September 16th, 2014 at 10:26 pm
And a trained operator can rack the slide with his eyebrow.
September 17th, 2014 at 12:59 am
Its so Abner points his gun at his least valuable body part.
And the people ridiculing Abner know the technique and know why Abner’s application of it is a clown show.
September 17th, 2014 at 9:29 am
I can see the applicability of pointing an unholstered handgun upwards while exiting a car, to avoid muzzle flashing other occupants. Holding it along the seam of one’s trousers might also work in that situation.
But explain to me how in any other situation, any other situation at all, having a gun muzzle beside one’s head is more useful than holding it in close to the ribs for retention or down along the pants seam for safety.
I recall the question, “Where do you want your gun pointing when it goes off, accidentally/negligently/surprisingly? At your friends, the sky, or the ground near your foot?
September 17th, 2014 at 9:41 am
I guess I can see a value to using it un-assing from a car full of people. The question I would ask is why you couldn’t wait to draw until you exited the vehicle?
September 17th, 2014 at 4:15 pm
Oh come on, just use the SUL and skip this.
All you have done is block the vision from one side of your head.
And tell me, if you have a gun in each hand, to you bring them both up and basically wear blinders?
September 17th, 2014 at 4:19 pm
“And a trained operator can rack the slide with his eyebrow.”
Hah Kristophr… I use my teeth! Makes them all wussies, right?
Ok,, what we are seeing is an instructor who wants their name added to a technique. Like the “Chapman Stance’ or ‘Cirillo cant’ or ‘Fistfire’.
That’s ok, but to make a technique that is only useful in a very narrow set of parameters is to make a poor technique.
Like I said, SUL.
September 18th, 2014 at 12:14 am
I have no idea where this type of technique originated (I’ve heard the OSS in WWII but don’t know for sure) but it was hugely popular on 70s TV shows (see Magnum P I for example). After the Modern Technique came into wide use in the early 80s, it was even given a nickname in some circles as “The Sabrina” after 1 of the characters on Charlie’s Angels.
September 20th, 2014 at 10:12 pm
Abner says he “only accepts challenges from flesh and blood men standing in front of” him….
I think Abner told everybody a lot more about himself than he intended to.
To quote George Costanza, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that”.