Using A Car As Cover - Experiences From Former Green Beret Kevin Owens

After a weekend of training at the Sawmill Training Center Kevin decided to take advantage of the thrashed cars from our Defensive Driving Course. It is a common thought that if the situation should arise, a vehicle can be used to protect you from gunfire. Are you sure that is the case? In this video Kevin shoots into a car to test the vulnerability of different places commonly thought of a good cover on vehicles.
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[@calzown]

Engine block, roger that.

[@damianfries7262]

In this short 10 minute video I got a wealth of information that would have taken years to obtain. Not everyday one can go out in the back yard and shoot at a car and understand exactly whats going on! Thank Kevin!

[@FishHuntFreedom]

Great real life scenario instructional video. More of these 👍

[@fieldcraftsurvival]

More to come!

[@FishHuntFreedom]

The FieldCraft Survival Channel just some video suggestions from a viewers standpoint, protecting your home from rioters but from inside your home, alarms or devices to utilize to prevent intruders from coming into your home, what to do if stopped by rioters while in your car and carrying. Just my two cents

[@fieldcraftsurvival]

Awesome, we appreciate those suggestions! Stand by, may have something for you in the coming days and weeks.

[@JohnChargualaf]

the driver. the driver right in the . KZbin: DEMONETIZED!

[@urbanjungle9600]

“The best way to stop a car is shoot the driver in the face!”! Brilliant advice. Love this channel for its non bs plain simple advice.

[@Law9652]

I think he said kill the driver first, which is even more non BS-y.

[@rickm4295]

I absolutely love to hear this man talk. "Shoot the driver in the F****NG face to stop a vehicle" lol. What a warrior man. Thats why he is still here to teach us , no bull****

[@lostinthewoods8032]

5:25 is gold.

[@AKay4tothe7]

As a Memphis resident, this video will come in handy. Thank you!

[@fieldcraftsurvival]

Glad it was helpful!

[@roninsvalhallawarriors3125]

Love Kevin here, he has a lot of love for what he does! Stay frosty My guys at FCS!!!

[@bradh6185]

Great information. Thanks for this demonstration. For future reference, the bar between the windshield and the front door is labeled by the auto industry as the "A pillar". Between the front and rear doors is the B pillar. Between the rear door and rear window is the C pillar.

[@mtusfi]

The middle pillar between the doors is called the B frame. Going from front to back: A, B, C and sometimes D in SUV or van designs: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_(car) Great practical content. Thank you

[@MrUC53]

Yes as a firefighter would explain it. Good job

[@Whitesp44]

We were trained that the door is more for some concealment. The A frame ( we were told) is better for cover but should be treated as slight concealment if anything. During a felony stop I'd like to see more of us park sideways and utilize the engine block. But again, you utilize your lights, spot and takedowns as well as PA for commands so we all use that V formation with two cruisers. Some high speed departments have kevlar lined doors. Great video! Important info for everyone.

[@chaoscollision8792]

Kevin is the man. A bunch of solid dudes behind fieldcraft. Gonna be very successful

[@elliottbassett5960]

Glad to see Kevin featured on the channel! I hope to hear him more on the podcast. Happy 4th to the FCS crew! 🇺🇸

[@Mavicz99]

Love to Kevin's no nonsense approach.

[@christophershen2269]

Kevin is a great addition to the team! I would love to see more videos with him on tactics and marksmanship! Very engaging personality for the channel!

[@MrRubasso]

Information that can make a difference in a person's life, particularly here in Brazil. Thank you, Fieldcraft Survival!

[@snowmanfl]

Some of the best content FieldCraft put out featured Kevin Owen!

[@CFairNH]

I'm in the glass business and the windshields definitely act just like you are saying. The more the angle of the windshield the worse the bullet deflection. Great video guys!!

[@triplejdeuce5735]

Just completed a Centrifuge Training VCQB Course instructed by Will Petty. Surprisingly the A, B, C pillars provide the best cover while giving you the advantage of seeing what’s going on around you. Will an engine block stop rounds, yes, but you can’t see the bad guy advancing on you if you are hiding behind it. And you have to expose your head to shoot over it. Therefore, stacking pillars is the best cover if you must shoot from a vehicle. I highly recommend taking his class, it will definitely change your mind about how to fight from a vehicle.

[@subjectiveone1937]

Great video guys. Being that I'm a civilian with no real combat training, I have always wondered where the best place would be to take cover with regard to the use of a vehicle. If I ever find myself in an active shooter situation this just might save my life.

[@R0mans13]

The department I worked for tested the b pillar with everything from our .40sw to a .308. The .308 made it through the B pillar but nothing else did, including a federal rifled slug. When I sit next to a turd at the light I'll set my head back behind it. Good video guys, good info that could save lives

[@DougieBee]

I had the opportunity to inspect many destroyed thin-skinned SUV's used in Iraq before the insurgency kicked into high gear. Like AP AK rounds. No way to be sure. We checked trajectory using string. While the engine block stopped rounds, nothing else did. Documented multiple hits that pierced the leading edge of the hood, passed through the firewall, dashboard, front & rear seatbacks, rear shelf bulkhead, and out through the rear of the vehicle. Aligned my expectations of protection vehicles with reality.

[@jardo531]

Car for sale. Gently used.......for target practice.

[@fieldcraftsurvival]

haha $2500.00 OBO

[@slik560]

A definite wake up call. So much for vehicle as cover! Terrific real world info

[@DevinJamesMetal]

Mike, this is awesome man! Thanks for giving us this knowledge. Love your channel brother 🇺🇸

[@mnewell05]

You guys are amazing! You have the best most informative tactical videos on KZbin by far. Keep em coming gentlemen. Love em!

[@RoninSerradaEscrimadore]

This is an excellent video. Very humbling and helpful. Thanks, guys!

[@aaronthomas382]

Thank you Kevin! This is so relevant right now.

[@Albakry100]

Thank you Kevin and Fieldcraft. That was very informative. Keep up the good work

[@fieldcraftsurvival]

Our pleasure!

[@SamSam-ih6nt]

Good stuff. Glad to see the company expanding.

[@RealisticCakes]

Great life saving education! Thank you!

[@scottharrisfirestone1390]

Thanks for the content and experience

[@Nope145]

Nice video. Practical demonstrations. You gotta love em.

[@chelo671]

Another stellar content, thanks 🤘

[@gunkmoto3821]

Really informative info well explained and executed.

[@MichaelLeopold1]

Thanks for the demonstration

[@thomsoncarter3121]

Seen a newer focus engine block stop a couple of bullets. Plastic intake manifold didn't fare well. Lots of,older crown vics had ballistic Panels in the doors.

[@NebulousCat]

I never thought about the glass dust. That would be death to your lungs and eyes.

[@akdefense]

Jerry Miculek did a video on shooting from inside a car and he was covered head to toe in PPE. Lot's of glass dust.

[@tmysty]

Thanks Kevin!!!!

[@markymark9359]

Very helpful. Great video

[@TheEnvelopeOZ]

This was excellent.

[@samuelborchardt-cho7379]

Kevin is such a chill instructor.

[@freneticfanatic]

The A frame on my old Chevy cobalt stopped 3 rounds of 5.56 from about 3 feet away FWIW

[@gelmibson883]

Everyone: "Lets take cover behind the A frame." A frame be like: "I am 2.5inches wide."

[@rahadban6442]

Going prone behind a rim/axle! idk that it’s always a good idea to be laying around on the job though 😆 Good shit gentleman, good shit. STAY DANGEROUS ☮️

[@TheKentuckyPatriot]

Awesome! I hope you have a wonderful 4th of July weekend :-)

[@johnqpublic2718]

Nice topic. Me learn much.

[@fieldcraftsurvival]

Glad to hear it!

[@Victor-hb4hj]

Thanks guys.

[@MillimeterMech]

Great content!

[@CoachBaker_11]

Would love to see more demos of shooting into and out of the vehicle through glass and how the bullet reacts per Kevin explanation.

[@SEPHIEL1]

Check out SageDynamics, they do it all with multiple calibers (pistol and rifle)

[@jpipaj]

Great video... guys

[@seanelovesjiujitsu]

Thanks for this dudes 🤙🏼

[@fieldcraftsurvival]

Our pleasure!

[@huntershaffer3833]

Bleeeeeeeep bleepity bleep bleep! That was great! Thank you for the real info, it was eye opening!

[@fieldcraftsurvival]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jupiterjunk]

. 5:25 THE BEST advice for stopping a vehicle. 7:42 THE BEST information on windshields. 8:59 WARNING about windshield "dust" .

[@MrChris-so6lg]

Amazing video. Wish you guys would come to Houston

[@216Ronin]

Just an FYI. Side and rear windows will also be made with laminated glass moving forward. New(ish) NHTSA standards. As a result they will act just lie the front windshield.

[@tjlovesrachel]

Since when?

[@t.c.2527]

Great video...that was very informative 👍 👍🇺🇸 Happy 4th guys🇺🇸

[@fieldcraftsurvival]

Happy 4th!Glad you liked it, thank you

[@buzzonedown]

Rear windshield saved my life once. Shooter drew a line across the back of my head from 25 ish yards to the rear of the vehicle. They will take/deflect a few 22lr's in a pinch. Not much more.

[@trumptookthevaccine1679]

This should be part of the Gunfighter 3 course

[@normwilson117]

kevin's great; more good fieldcraft content

[@raymondmurillo]

Kevin is a boss.

[@biblicalpolitics602]

Good to know, thx

[@12vscience]

Good stuff.

[@WalterPidgeonsForge]

Found an armored former SS Dignitary protection Tahoe at auction.. it was so wrecked I won it for $800.. adapted all the ballistic panels to my 2017 Sierra 2500 CC… 3/8 AR500 water jetted locally to “Dragon Skin” the truck’s vitals.. got to think outside the box.

[@andyprice4696]

Good solid information

[@fieldcraftsurvival]

Glad you think so!

[@U-TubeSurfer45]

I like how you guys took time to put the company logo on the hood of the car hahaha

[@ckeister74]

It's an "A" pillar at the front and "B" pillar at the middle.

[@benjamindover7050]

Thanks for the video. Very surprised by the A frame. I wish I could see the passenger side doors; perhaps the second door might stop a 9mm, though I'm skeptical the other door would've stopped a 5.56mm. I'm not planning on putting either to the test in RealLife™, though. Happy Independence Day.

[@blkstang4830]

If you can it’s best to get away from the vehicle, especially in law enforcement. Bad guys will immediately shoot at the car. If you can move away from the car and return fire you’ll be at an advantage. Also having the emergency lights on will be incredibly distracting and disorienting at night. Good info here about what bullets will do to a car. 👍🏻

[@CWhite228]

2 wheels and a set of brake rotors and calipers is a lot of metal to go through also. Most smaller gas saver cars have a 4 cylinder engine and the actual engine "block" is really small, the rest of the plastic junk like intake manifold and air filter box under the hood wont help much.

[@CrackuhDon]

lmao at the bleeps. I understand though.

[@patrickmccabe1003]

Could have used scenes from the movie "Heat" with Pacino and DeNiro from the bank scene shootout as B roll. No Chance, No Chance. Kevin's Irish brogue is priceless! 300 BLK pistol rifle for SUV trunk gun!

[@rahadban6442]

Going prone behind a rim/axle! idk that it’s always a good idea to be laying around on the job though 😆 Good shit gentleman, good shit. STAY DANGEROUS ☮️

[@mimcquee0311]

A lot of the new cop cars have inner door armor. We tested it successfully against. 308...

[@spunkkat1721]

Hopefully your in law enforcement!! LOL

[@11ccom]

yes

[@tom_olofsson]

The A and B posts will slow down or deflect 9mm but the C post (between rear door and rear window) does not have as many layers of metal so I doubt it would be as good of cover. Careful trusting wheels as cover. All disc breaks are not created equal. Some are thin. Also, rear wheels on older cars and light trucks may be drum breaks with no solid disc.

[@xORLOCKx]

Me and that car got something in common, runs but rattles

[@nitramjr111]

Was looking for this comment, was not disappointed

[@kadeemjohnson4147]

I learned this from watching the north hollywood bank shootout

[@JoeMama-hl5qc]

Windshields do not deflect bullets as much as the dude said . Maybe if your trying to shoot 100 yards through glass yes . If you aim at the head through windshield your going to hit the head. Dude shot pistol into the windshield and still hit center

[@nonono50]

With all that is going on I am starting to think I am on the Truman Show! I literally just sat on porch after stocking supplies in car, and thought how can I use car as barrier if have to fight way to it. Either Im chipped or there is some real serious AI going on. I have never searched in my life for this kind of thing yet alone first on feed suggestion. Weirrrrdddd

[@isaacmendes1256]

Cool intro

[@michaelwalz4488]

I've always heard behind the axles is another good place to be... true/not true?

[@JamesLee-mp2qz]

Those pillars are thin, though, even if they could stop rounds... But better than nothing i guess.

[@21psd]

😂 'Runs but Rattles". Probably because of all the bullets rolling around in there now!

[@mikehoncho806]

Hey Mike do you have anything on the Tongo Tongo ambush. I know you said you were in Niger, it seems as if no one knows about that incident sadly enough those guys are real heroes

[@napoleonbonerfart278]

Its really surprising how many people think youll be safe from gunfire in a car. Engine blocks and wheels are your best bet, lots of metal protecting you in both.

[@Monster11B]

Not an A frame... A pillar. The next one back is the B pillar. The rear is the C pillar.

[@rynosaurasx2370]

Looks like my first car 2000 Nissan Altima

[@ed4253]

That's a 93-97 gen

[@ReadySetGoPictures]

Did it go though both doors I assume? Or just the one?

[@JayM1989]

Those bugs would be driving me insane until I gave up and just decided to become one with them and maybe start breathing them in and maybe even start liking it

[@davidhudson2527]

Taking out a 2nd mortgage for a armor plated vehicle and run flat tires? 😉

[@dustindevorkin8906]

When I was in the academy I was told there were ballistics panels in the doors.

[@Shattered_Times]

Thats my understanding in alot of departments.

[@CWhite228]

Rated for what caliber at what distance? Id hate to go off of that info and find out the hard way that theyre for pistol rounds when the bad guy has an ak...

[@mimcquee0311]

@@CWhite228. 308...tested

[@Intel_8]

That may have been true. Ford and Chevy (not sure about Dodge) did and may still offer ballistic panels as a factory option on their fleet vehicles. I don’t recall off the top of my head what the ballistic protection level was though. NYSP as an example had them on their Tahoe PPVs and you could immediately tell by the weight of the door vs the non-ballistic doors.

[@theadventurebros4686]

thats refrigerant from the ac r134~!

[@mimcquee0311]

Been encouraged to use rifled shotgun slugs vs vehicles.... Maybe next video?

[@quentinsteele6595]

Why he never showed the other side of the car or the engine block was he showed all the other hits during the AR presentation on that car potential and look I think some went through

[@shadythereok]

I can hear our neighbors now, get the hell away from our car

[@StretzTacticalinc]

But, but, but my VCQB & my temple index!!

[@Teddy_______]

I was under the impression that cars exploded in great balls of fire when you shoot them...

[@enocherone]

thats just hollywood movies, nothing is faker than hollywood

[@iancase2251]

What about the wheels? Steel, vs cast aluminum?

[@DCFiredawgmedic]

.,”A”post,”B” post etc till you run out of vehicle

[@xxxlonewolf49]

Rounds throw the glass do the same thing rounds do into tank armor, it's called normalization when it turns to dig into the armor, in this case the glass.

[@JoeMama-hl5qc]

Even at extreme angles windshield doesn't deviate the rounds that much . I put two windshields together at a crazy angle and was still hitting the target with 7.62 and .223 .just saying