For folks reading this that want richer feedback, try adding three things to the mix: use slow-motion video rather than real-time, use live fire and show us your target after the first shot/string, use a shot timer and show us your time.
Additionally, draw from something other than a neutral stance or a surrender stance. Carrying your backpack, standing looking at your phone, getting into your car, sitting in a chair, etc.
Just a heads up, the more you guys criticize what gets posted the less life this sub is gonna have. Just be happy people are posting to it considering there's only 500 active people here at a time. Let the meta happen as it's gonna happen, it'll die down on its own.
Oh no, that's not typical. Something triggered a few weeks back and it's been very themed lately for some reason. We had edc, leather hate, leather love, would you shoot, rate my draw.... It's like spring brought out a bunch of memey people and they all feed off of and copy each other
I’m mostly here for the personal stories that people share of situations in which they used or thought they might have to use their gun. I tend to learn more from them.
How about getting actual training from a credible instructor, instead of seeking critiques from fat redditors that haven’t had any training to begin with?
This whole subreddit has become very cringey. Quickly became one of my favorites to one my least favorite. Half of the people here I wouldn’t trust within 500ft of a gun.
Pretty much this. I just scroll past most posts from this sub now. The only ones I've liked are the dude with the mustache finger blasting his glock. And that's just because it makes me laugh.
A little cringe? I think this whole subreddit has become a lot cringe! At this point it seems like it's just a bunch of grown up men playing around with guns like toys. Smh.
EDC going to get ice cream with my daughter followed by a picture of 3 pistols, 10 extra mags, 3 knives, a multitool, 4 flashlights, M249B SAW, and the keys to a Ford Taurus.
I feel ya bro. I feel the same way for every CCW pistol I see with a red dot and light. Usually Gucci Glocks... Oh quick PSA check Apex for their recent trigger recall if you have one in your glock.
Thank god someone finally said it. Not to mention half these idiots probably shouldn't be carrying in the first place. Go get some training and education before coming here, especially education about the legal lines when it comes to brandishing, DGU, and what comes after such a use. Most of you likely don't even consider what comes after you not thinking properly and employing what you think is just another tool in the toolbox.
Nah. It’s a newish phenomenon. The sub will go through some “fads” where there end up being too many posts on one topic such as the draws. You just have to scroll past the fad of the month/quarter (day??) to get to other posts/threads that are more interesting.
Dry fire posts have always been a little odd to me. It’s something we should all be regularly doing, and it’s not necessarily something the internet needs to see.
I'll never understand going to the trouble of complaining about posts by making a dedicated complaint post. Scroll on, you'll never be able to control what others do nor should you try. It's reddit and not that deep
Also if you want actual reliable advice on your draw/shoot/holster go to a reputable range and pay a reputable instructor for a class or some one-on-one training.
My favorite ones are the pocket dumps...people be carrying a Desert Eagle, 4 mags, knife, leatherman, flashlight, tourniquet, 2 watches, tactical pen and a metal fucking wallet.
It's not really about compliments, it's about critiques and advice. Majority of the ones I've seen are asking about ways to do better at what they're doing. I quite enjoy them because I enjoy giving advice to people that really put forward their drive to be better
I get that there’s often not a lot to talk about as it relates to concealed carry, but I find the ‘rate my draw’ posts very annoying as well. They remind me of Napoleon dynamite when Uncle Rico has that video of him throwing the football outside his van
I was gonna say the same shit yesterday, but then I thought to myself that this is the ccw sub and new people might find it helpful. Idk. It’s def cringe to me but so is half the internet and 90 percent of tiktok
Then downvote and move on. Or you could do this......Ready? You could actually post content that ypu would like to see more of. I know it takes slighly more effort than complaining, but I think you can do it.
Agreed, you don't need anyone to critique your draw today. Film yourself like your already doing to get likes on redit, but instead of posting here make a YouTube channel and upload it there. You can use the slow motion feature on YouTube to critique yourself then just delete the video.
All I have to say is this. Carrying a weapon does not make you strong or weak, its how you choose to use it. It's better to de-escalate then escalate a situation, less paperwork in my mind. But it's your choice to draw or not draw, but you better be sure when you pull that trigger, be a use it's a one way street once you do.
Agreed, you don't need anyone to critique your draw today. Film yourself like your already doing to get likes on redit, but instead of posting here make a YouTube channel and upload it there. You can use the slow motion feature on YouTube to critique yourself then just delete the video.
Take a class from a reputable instructor with real world experience and buy a shot timer. Train what you learned from the class and record the metrics from the shot timer. This is the way.
There's some that are bait-y, but I genuinely believe that there are some individuals who are actually looking for critiques. Some really do NEED critiques.
Well that’s just your opinion man. Some people haven’t ventured out of mom’s basement to get advice from others irl. But then again what is socializing, if not behind my mighty KeYbOaRd.
If you really want to know how good you are ,have a buddy chase you around ,push you to the ground ,throw a little dirt in your eyes.then with a 150bpm heart rate see how accurate you are.
Why not have a canned response? "If your draw time is over one second, shoot faster. If your hits are not in the alpha zone of a full size USPSA target at 7 yards, shoot more accurately."
I'd rather see someone wandering around their house and drawing when a random timer on their phone goes off. Not hard to draw when you're standing at ready. Let's see what you do when you've got a hot pot of Kraft Mac N Cheese in your right hand and Reddit in your left.
Instead of complaining, how about suggestions for content you would like to see? Firearm forums tend to become an echo chamber of copycat content and fanboi cliques, meanwhile the point of the forum is lost. For reddit, someone gets upvoted and a stream of copy follows trying to ride that karma wave. Try sorting by new and upvote originals. I'd love to see more about local laws and getting to national CCW reciprocity. WWYD with reactions in the format of yes or no, why, and cite your local use of force laws which make it a good DGU. Gear reviews and why a $10 belt is better than the $200 one. Holster review and why it's best for a specific gun, 1 brand is not the best for all. AIWB is not the best, it may be the best for you, but say why like "I have no skills to draw any other way. I like to stuff. Average Individual Without Balls. It's best for my everyday threat level." etc .. discuss why constitutional carry without a permit option is actually bad. ID politicians that actually support 2A and self defense rather than pretend to, cite why and actual actions.
You want someone to give you pointers??? Fuck that get in a fight and pull the glizzy out see who's alive. You get shot ya draw was ass, ya live You good
That and the would you draw posts. First of all, if you’re getting into situations where you’re thinking of drawing all of the time you need to re think some choices you make
Yup. Just yesterday I was debating whether to leave the sub or not. It’s gotten pretty pointless. Used to be a great place to keep up on new holster designs and carry guns. Now it’s a place of lame videos and people showing how much useless shit they can put on a pistol.
For folks reading this that want richer feedback, try adding three things to the mix: use slow-motion video rather than real-time, use live fire and show us your target after the first shot/string, use a shot timer and show us your time.
I’ve never seen a rate my draw that included all those features and I agree that would make a way more interesting video
Additionally, draw from something other than a neutral stance or a surrender stance. Carrying your backpack, standing looking at your phone, getting into your car, sitting in a chair, etc.
Or, as we saw yesterday, throw all three of those out the window and do a combat roll draw lol.
Definitely don't post a video of you walking backwards. That was total cringe /s
Also, be honest and post the blooper reel.
I’ll take the rate my draw over the CCW license with SR9 covering the personal info and “only insert time frame until I was approved” posts
And I’d take that over “muh holster is better than yours” or “if you don’t XYZ when concealing then you’re trash” posts...
Inb4:
John Wesley Harding once shot a man for snoring. 🤷♂️
Haha I know right? I'm just waiting for the "I had a DGU against a guy who cut in line at the supermarket, need legal advice" posts.
Don't forget the "look at the 9 thousand dollar customized pistol, holster, and optic I bought, which of course means I'm the king of CCW." posts.
I still love the poster who asked if he should draw his gun at a guy looking at him weird.
Just a heads up, the more you guys criticize what gets posted the less life this sub is gonna have. Just be happy people are posting to it considering there's only 500 active people here at a time. Let the meta happen as it's gonna happen, it'll die down on its own.
The questions that keep me up at night after browsing this sub...
I only joined this sub 2 weeks ago but I honestly assumed that was 90% of the content here besides the obviously baited would you draw posts
Oh no, that's not typical. Something triggered a few weeks back and it's been very themed lately for some reason. We had edc, leather hate, leather love, would you shoot, rate my draw.... It's like spring brought out a bunch of memey people and they all feed off of and copy each other
Sadly, over the last few weeks, this is exactly what this sub has become.
I’m mostly here for the personal stories that people share of situations in which they used or thought they might have to use their gun. I tend to learn more from them.
How about getting actual training from a credible instructor, instead of seeking critiques from fat redditors that haven’t had any training to begin with?
We're not all fat and many of us do have training.
This whole subreddit has become very cringey. Quickly became one of my favorites to one my least favorite. Half of the people here I wouldn’t trust within 500ft of a gun.
Pretty much this. I just scroll past most posts from this sub now. The only ones I've liked are the dude with the mustache finger blasting his glock. And that's just because it makes me laugh.
lol y’all just now think it’s getting cringe?
I’m more of a fan of the would you draw lol
"5 year old refuses to go to bed, WOULD YOU DRAW?!?!?"
A little cringe? I think this whole subreddit has become a lot cringe! At this point it seems like it's just a bunch of grown up men playing around with guns like toys. Smh.
EDC going to get ice cream with my daughter followed by a picture of 3 pistols, 10 extra mags, 3 knives, a multitool, 4 flashlights, M249B SAW, and the keys to a Ford Taurus.
Would you draw me like one of your French girls, Jack?
Could not agree more. Make a subreddit called ratemydraw if yall want but it is just annoying at this point.
In the grand scheme of things, I’d rather have those posts than say, caliber polls, empty chamber polls, critique my carry posts. ¯\(ツ)/¯
I feel ya bro. I feel the same way for every CCW pistol I see with a red dot and light. Usually Gucci Glocks... Oh quick PSA check Apex for their recent trigger recall if you have one in your glock.
I was a little confused before I opened the comments.
Thank god someone finally said it. Not to mention half these idiots probably shouldn't be carrying in the first place. Go get some training and education before coming here, especially education about the legal lines when it comes to brandishing, DGU, and what comes after such a use. Most of you likely don't even consider what comes after you not thinking properly and employing what you think is just another tool in the toolbox.
I've said it before, and got downvotes for it.
OP, thank you for saying this. I'm fairly new to this sub and subbed just off the name. I thought this was just how the sub had always been.
Nah. It’s a newish phenomenon. The sub will go through some “fads” where there end up being too many posts on one topic such as the draws. You just have to scroll past the fad of the month/quarter (day??) to get to other posts/threads that are more interesting.
I concur with this sentiment.
Dry fire posts have always been a little odd to me. It’s something we should all be regularly doing, and it’s not necessarily something the internet needs to see.
I guess we should probably go back to sharing videos from fight websites asking "WWYD?"
I feel the same way about the hands up starting position
I'll never understand going to the trouble of complaining about posts by making a dedicated complaint post. Scroll on, you'll never be able to control what others do nor should you try. It's reddit and not that deep
Better than endless EDC posts.
Right? Like we give a fuck what kind of chapstick you keep in your pocket, make sure to get it in the pic on the hotel nightstand lol
A community designed to help people should help people, even if it is small, tedious questions like help with draw.
If you need help with your draw, go take a CCW class. You should go learn from the professionals not some randoms on Reddit. No offense.
Also if you want actual reliable advice on your draw/shoot/holster go to a reputable range and pay a reputable instructor for a class or some one-on-one training.
At least they all take the time to show us their empty mag and rack the side a dozen times before dry firing.
My favorite ones are the pocket dumps...people be carrying a Desert Eagle, 4 mags, knife, leatherman, flashlight, tourniquet, 2 watches, tactical pen and a metal fucking wallet.
It's not really about compliments, it's about critiques and advice. Majority of the ones I've seen are asking about ways to do better at what they're doing. I quite enjoy them because I enjoy giving advice to people that really put forward their drive to be better
I get that there’s often not a lot to talk about as it relates to concealed carry, but I find the ‘rate my draw’ posts very annoying as well. They remind me of Napoleon dynamite when Uncle Rico has that video of him throwing the football outside his van
I was gonna say the same shit yesterday, but then I thought to myself that this is the ccw sub and new people might find it helpful. Idk. It’s def cringe to me but so is half the internet and 90 percent of tiktok
Agree, they are annoying. I don't care about your draw, and it's probably the least important aspect of your self defense strategy.
This is often overlooked entirely. You can have a sub 1 draw but if you can't hit a target then you're as useful as drawing a wooden gun.
Then downvote and move on. Or you could do this......Ready? You could actually post content that ypu would like to see more of. I know it takes slighly more effort than complaining, but I think you can do it.
Wait so the sub isn't obligated to curate it's content specifically for me? /s
Thank you!!!! How about people start a
This is the obvious fix.
I kind of agree, but at least the Olight hate circlejerk appears to have died down for now, so the draw videos seem pretty innocuous by comparison.
Sounds like something a 4 o'clock 1911 carrying fudd would say.
And just like that I find out I’m a fudd…….
😂
You could uh... you know... not watch them?
Lol you post this after we have the best day of memes and also no man people need help
I tried.
This is about 90% of the reason why I posted a video of me shooting "something". The other 10% was to show off my footwear.
I just scroll past them. Not my interest. I have learned some very good tips on this subreddit but the draw thing is not one of them.
Hands up ya varmint!!!
Nobody is forcing you to watch them.
Draw videos are peak cringe and max little-dick-retard energy.
Who cares. Quit gatekeeping. If people want feedback on their draw then let them post. Nobody is forcing you to look at it
I mean. You could just scroll over them. Complaining about it does nothing other than fill the sub with more trash posts.
I disagree. I'm loving the added content.Don't like em, don't watch em.
Its been cringe and borderline homosexual. Hey guys, look what I can do....
Agreed, you don't need anyone to critique your draw today. Film yourself like your already doing to get likes on redit, but instead of posting here make a YouTube channel and upload it there. You can use the slow motion feature on YouTube to critique yourself then just delete the video.
Agreed
All I have to say is this. Carrying a weapon does not make you strong or weak, its how you choose to use it. It's better to de-escalate then escalate a situation, less paperwork in my mind. But it's your choice to draw or not draw, but you better be sure when you pull that trigger, be a use it's a one way street once you do.
Agreed, you don't need anyone to critique your draw today. Film yourself like your already doing to get likes on redit, but instead of posting here make a YouTube channel and upload it there. You can use the slow motion feature on YouTube to critique yourself then just delete the video.
Take a class from a reputable instructor with real world experience and buy a shot timer. Train what you learned from the class and record the metrics from the shot timer. This is the way.
There's some that are bait-y, but I genuinely believe that there are some individuals who are actually looking for critiques. Some really do NEED critiques.
Someone should make
Watches Lucas Botkin once, immediately posts a “Critique my draw” post lol
Time for
I think the feedback posts are frequent enough, and probs valuable enough, that it should be it’s own sub.
Well that’s just your opinion man. Some people haven’t ventured out of mom’s basement to get advice from others irl. But then again what is socializing, if not behind my mighty KeYbOaRd.
Can we just go back to hating on leather again?
If you really want to know how good you are ,have a buddy chase you around ,push you to the ground ,throw a little dirt in your eyes.then with a 150bpm heart rate see how accurate you are.
Why not have a canned response? "If your draw time is over one second, shoot faster. If your hits are not in the alpha zone of a full size USPSA target at 7 yards, shoot more accurately."
I'd rather see someone wandering around their house and drawing when a random timer on their phone goes off. Not hard to draw when you're standing at ready. Let's see what you do when you've got a hot pot of Kraft Mac N Cheese in your right hand and Reddit in your left.
Yeah more and more I find myself skipping past posts here that land on my front page. Think it may be time to move to other subs.
I feel the same way about all the "Glock on ma cock, HK on a bale of hay" posts.
R/cmd should be it's own page
I'm honestly not sure what kinda of content you'd mostly find here, other than edc photos and draw vids.
I'm honestly not sure what kinda of content you'd mostly find here, other than edc photos and draw vids.
I'm honestly not sure what kinda of content you'd mostly find here, other than edc photos and draw vids.
Instead of complaining, how about suggestions for content you would like to see? Firearm forums tend to become an echo chamber of copycat content and fanboi cliques, meanwhile the point of the forum is lost. For reddit, someone gets upvoted and a stream of copy follows trying to ride that karma wave. Try sorting by new and upvote originals. I'd love to see more about local laws and getting to national CCW reciprocity. WWYD with reactions in the format of yes or no, why, and cite your local use of force laws which make it a good DGU. Gear reviews and why a $10 belt is better than the $200 one. Holster review and why it's best for a specific gun, 1 brand is not the best for all. AIWB is not the best, it may be the best for you, but say why like "I have no skills to draw any other way. I like to stuff. Average Individual Without Balls. It's best for my everyday threat level." etc .. discuss why constitutional carry without a permit option is actually bad. ID politicians that actually support 2A and self defense rather than pretend to, cite why and actual actions.
We just cycle through them, bullet setback, and pocket dumps. It is what it is.
"""Critique my draw" videos are getting old guys." threads are getting old guys.
It just got cringe ? I hated them from the start.
You want someone to give you pointers??? Fuck that get in a fight and pull the glizzy out see who's alive. You get shot ya draw was ass, ya live You good
Thank you so very much for posting this! You saved me the time of doing it.
there's 2 or 3 day old posts on the sub? what else would users post? the sub is pretty dead as is. I say the more posts, the better.
they are just people with small dicks who want to post dicks on the internet
That and the would you draw posts. First of all, if you’re getting into situations where you’re thinking of drawing all of the time you need to re think some choices you make
You're just saying that because you're draw is garbage.
Yup. Just yesterday I was debating whether to leave the sub or not. It’s gotten pretty pointless. Used to be a great place to keep up on new holster designs and carry guns. Now it’s a place of lame videos and people showing how much useless shit they can put on a pistol.
I’ll have you know, I recorded a 60 second video of me drawing over and over.
It’s always been cringe
Agreed setup a thread and post there. It’s overdone