Do you train using your firearms while wearing a gas mask? What models do you prefer and dislike? How do you train with gas masks? Do you also add night vision equipment? If you practice any of these kindly share your experiences.

What advice would you share with others that you gained from your trainings? Pictures, videos, and stories most appreciated. Thank you.

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What type of gas masks have ya'll used or tested? Researching options and want to hear feedback from the community. Thank you.

bears repeating.

MCU2P works but still needs a bit of practice as far as the cheek weld.  Easy to practice that dryfire.

I would use a mask with a good field of view.  It can be tough to get both a good cheek weld and a good sight picture with masks that don't have a good field of view.

Rolling the sights inward helps, and using a red dot is very helpful vs irons.  

Trying to recall exactly the geometry of why the roll helps create more space and can’t think of it, but it does work and is a common technique.  Probably depends on the mask.  Pretty sure you are just moving the stock away from the mask while keeping the sight in front if your eye more than anything else.

Obviously make sure you are only running one filter as well...


We would basically just run the same drills while wearing a mask.  For SWAT we would periodically run full quals in masks.  

Fucking masks...  $100 item kept functional by a couple 2 cent tiny rubber flaps.  Knocked one flap out somehow before a building clear once where CS had been deployed... not enjoyable at all.