Videos tagged with Tactical Hyve

This expert-level guide, presented by Matt Kalisch of Tactical Hyve, details five critical Close Quarters Battle (CQB) mistakes frequently observed in trained individuals. It emphasizes prioritizing room domination, maintaining security discipline, avoiding excessive speed, ensuring strict muzzle awareness, and the vital importance of thorough planning with tailored SOPs. The advice is geared towards enhancing survivability and effectiveness in tactical scenarios.

This guide outlines the progression for civilian Close Quarters Battle (CQB) training, emphasizing that it requires significant commitment and is not for casual practitioners. Experts from Tactical Hyve stress the paramount importance of mastering fundamental shooting skills and weapon manipulation before even considering CQB tactics. The training involves teamwork, communication, and countless hours of focused practice with a consistent group, warning against superficial 'LARPing' often seen on social media.

This video from Tactical Hyve, featuring instructor Matt Kalish, emphasizes that actively clearing rooms during a home invasion is extremely dangerous and often ill-advised for civilians. Instead, the expert guide stresses prioritizing calling the police, securing family members, and having a well-rehearsed home defense plan. It highlights the critical importance of legal awareness, understanding your limitations, and avoiding an overconfident 'ALPHA' mentality without practical experience.

This guide details optimal buttstock placement for rifle shooting, emphasizing driving the stock into the shoulder's hard pocket to create a recoil-absorbing 'wall'. Proper placement enhances control and aids in staying on target. The video also touches on less optimal placements, like the stock rising above the shoulder, which can hinder recoil control and target acquisition. Instruction is provided by Matt Kalisch of Tactical Hyve.

This guide, presented by Myles of Tactical Hyve, emphasizes that knowing firearm safety rules is insufficient; they must be applied subconsciously. The video highlights that frequent handling, including dry fire practice, is crucial for developing these ingrained habits, moving beyond academic knowledge to practical, automatic application, especially for average gun owners.

This video details the Modified Low-Ready position for Close Quarters Battle (CQB) scenarios, emphasizing its utility in tactical stacks. Instructors Matt Galish and Dave Harris explain how the buttstock-above-shoulder and barrel-across-body configuration allows for safe and rapid presentation of the firearm when entering a room or navigating tight spaces, preventing flagging of teammates. The technique focuses on driving the weapon forward and upward, maintaining a stable shooting platform, and ensuring mobility.

Joe Farwell of Tactical Hyve explains a technique for achieving faster splits while maintaining accuracy. The method involves using the middle and ring fingers of the strong hand for trigger manipulation and the support hand for maximum side-to-side contact on the firearm. This approach aims to reduce interference from the strong hand during rapid firing, allowing the gun to cycle efficiently.

This video showcases a 60-yard Bill Drill, a timed shooting exercise focused on accuracy and speed. Participants, including Johnny, Larry, and Miles, engage targets at a significant distance, with times and hit/miss data being recorded. The drill highlights the challenges of maintaining precision under time pressure at extended ranges.

World Champion Kyle Litzie of Tactical Hyve provides expert instruction on achieving a proper cheek weld. This technique is crucial for consistent eye alignment with optics, minimizing parallax errors, and enhancing rifle stability for better recoil control. Litzie demonstrates adjustable stock solutions and DIY methods for improvised cheek risers, emphasizing proper head positioning and consistent tension to build muscle memory for faster, more accurate shooting across various rifle platforms.

This video from Tactical Hyve focuses on improving firearm grip consistency through a series of drills at an indoor range. The instructor emphasizes dedicating training sessions to hyperfocusing on grip mechanics rather than target accuracy. By performing single, then multiple rapid-fire shots and conducting a post-shot checklist, shooters can identify and correct grip issues that impact accuracy and speed.

This video details the 'deliberate pieing' technique for Close Quarters Battle (CQB) entry, emphasizing a slow, methodical approach to clearing doorways. Instructor Dave from Tactical Hyve explains how to achieve 'diminishing returns' by maximizing visibility, using the doorway as a pivot, and taking small, controlled steps. The guide also covers specific footwork for entering the room after pieing to avoid 'hanging up' in the doorway.

This video details the 'Tactical Hyve Steel Challenge,' a competition focused on engaging multiple steel targets as quickly as possible with a single shot per target. The instructor establishes a baseline time of 50.77 seconds with one miss, challenging viewers to beat this performance. The challenge involves 51 steel targets of varying sizes and distances, emphasizing accuracy under speed.