08-22-2011, 09:52 AM
Saw a drill that sounded interesting in a recent issue of American Rifleman, a modified El Presidente for handguns:
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So my brother and I set up some boxes with man(ish) size targets and ran through this for at least an hour yesterday. That was the first time I've had a real drill in mind that requires moving and shooting, and it was a blast. Gets the adrenaline going, helps find weaknesses in your skills, forces you to practice with your weapon and mode of carry at speed, and gives you a personal benchmark to improve on. I was running it starting with my little .380 in my ankle holster, my brother with his 9mm in a side holster. We'd start with 6 in the magazine, time starts when you pull form the holster, rack, shoot 6, run to cover, reload, shoot another 6, time's up. He got down to ~17 sec, and I clearly need more work as I always had at least one miss, so I'm in the mid-20's (fail). Anyway, I highly recommend it. :thumbup:
I need to get some real stands though to get the targets up a bit, maybe next time.
Once we had enough, we backed up the start and cover locations by another yard or so and ran it with shotguns a few times to finish off our targets. Just one blast for each target, run, reload 3, blast 'em again. I was SERIOUSLY out of practice with handling my shotgun, I was always getting something out of sequence! Need to do that some more!
Any other fun drills you guys have tried that aren't too hard to set up? Since I don't hunt, this kind of thing interests me a whole lot more than just standing there doing target practice, and it's much more practical/realistic for handguns.
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So my brother and I set up some boxes with man(ish) size targets and ran through this for at least an hour yesterday. That was the first time I've had a real drill in mind that requires moving and shooting, and it was a blast. Gets the adrenaline going, helps find weaknesses in your skills, forces you to practice with your weapon and mode of carry at speed, and gives you a personal benchmark to improve on. I was running it starting with my little .380 in my ankle holster, my brother with his 9mm in a side holster. We'd start with 6 in the magazine, time starts when you pull form the holster, rack, shoot 6, run to cover, reload, shoot another 6, time's up. He got down to ~17 sec, and I clearly need more work as I always had at least one miss, so I'm in the mid-20's (fail). Anyway, I highly recommend it. :thumbup:
I need to get some real stands though to get the targets up a bit, maybe next time.
Once we had enough, we backed up the start and cover locations by another yard or so and ran it with shotguns a few times to finish off our targets. Just one blast for each target, run, reload 3, blast 'em again. I was SERIOUSLY out of practice with handling my shotgun, I was always getting something out of sequence! Need to do that some more!
Any other fun drills you guys have tried that aren't too hard to set up? Since I don't hunt, this kind of thing interests me a whole lot more than just standing there doing target practice, and it's much more practical/realistic for handguns.
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