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Facing the entrance when possible, booth or table is fine and I'll choose one of either available to me based on their locations.

I've been to some pretty seedy places in the inner cities for lunch. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that I unloose the gun from it's holster and place it under my left leg at times in some locales.

I look for a back exit, and usually observe how to get to the kitchen and plan to move to and through the kitchen of the place to a back exit

 

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If I'm with someone or a small group of people that actually know me well, they'll request I sit where I can watch their backs.

 

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Rule number 1, Never put your back to any possibility of being blindsided. Always face any opposition that may occur. 2. Position is fundamental in protecting you and others. Military training spec-ops 101.
You are taking point to ensure you have the advantage not the intruder, ever.

More like sentry duty for me. I wasn't an operator

 

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A booth can be more confining than a chair, because it's easier to knock a chair over than slide out of a booth in an emergency. Back against the wall if possible, with a view of the entrances/exits is a given. I also like to have a view of wherever the staff hangs out, such as the cash register.

Somewhat more confining than a table/chair location, however the booth affords the opportunity to draw unnoticed. Given notice something may go down, or it's going down right then, I can draw from seated unseen by others.

Pluses and minus' to each. I prefer a booth myself for the reason stated

 

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The ability to draw and fire while seated at a booth is, IMO, a critical aspect when considering one's carry kit.

I've been to training where you were seated and had to draw and fire on threats without getting up out of the chair [ and at least one IPSC COF started off seated taking threats. Of course it's a critical aspect of SD with a pistol.

People are fond of believing they need to stand and square to the target to deliver effective fire on some turd threatening life. Why? Because they've never done anything but fire standing squared to the target. We live in a 360 world, one should be able to put effective fire out on a threat seated, laying on their back shooting between their legs, upside down and backwards [ you may fall that way and have to engage, you think you've got time to spin around, stand up and engage? Best of luck when time is in short supply and the choices you make likely determine whether you survive or not.

Staying alive with a pistol is a thinking mans game. I've had students shoot upside down and over their heads, laying on their left and right sides and between the legs at threats. A first for all but a few, something the brain needs to know it can do so if and when the time comes you're knocked down and have to draw and fire, you're not of the mindset you have to jump up to to defend yourself and throw lead

 

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I only recall running this scenario once in a class. Shooters were seated in fold-up chairs at an eight-foot folding table. The prescribed default was to quickly stand, knocking the chair backward, draw and fire at a paper silhouette about five yards away. Think monkeys and footballs.

Most of this stuff, one has to figure out and work out on one's own. Discussions like this one hopefully help.

Draw and fire from seated, they had you stand for safety reasons. Far too many would draw seated and put a round through the table or themselves as the muzzle will cross some part of your body seated.

As for last sentence, that's exactly how I developed many of the skill sets I own today, on my own through experimentation and pushing/discovering what limits I may have or not have BEFORE I have to use them on the streets. Like developing the firing to your six without turning around or moving your feet which students have enjoyed throughout the COF

 

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I’ve shot from a chair, car seat, or whatever, too many times to count.
Never once did I stand up prior to shooting. I’ve also shot from under tables and benches, (and through a plastic culvert).

Done those and shooting from a moving vehicle seated. That was with mp5's and then pistols. Veryy enlightening.

 

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my biggest issue with shooting from a booth or table is the trapped feeling in the event i get shot back at...every scenario i have shot that started sitting turned into movement of some kind...

Wall of bullets as you extricate yourself from the seat? LOL

 

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roger that...

Knew it 🤜