Okay folks,
I'm turning to the experts or at least those with more experience than I.
I'm looking for two types of training drills; those I can do at home and those to do at the range.
I want to improve my consistency and accuracy.
At home, I know to dry fire and practice getting the trigger to break as a surprise. I have heard to put a penny on the front site to help keep the site on target.
Those are the types of drills and training tips I'm looking for, what else should I do?
Deloge
1 day ago
7 comments:
A quarter or a dime works better than a penny as your skills improve for different reasons, the quarter because it's bigger and heavier and once it hits it's tipping point it falls faster, a dime because it's smaller and has a smaller balance point.
Dry fire from holster/concealment.
Use both hands and eyes separately and together in your dry fire and range exercises. Cross eyed to gun hand too, both ways.
As part of your plan is CHL related, practice drawing from any and all concealment rigs in the vehicles you actually drive. You'd be amazed at the number of people that have CHLs but would have NO IDEA AT ALL as to how to draw from a seatbelted driving position in their vehicle, although the odds of needing that are likely as high as the odds of needing any other skill...
Practice ALL MALF drills related to your firearm(s) where you can do them in your sleep.
Study the "shooter's wheel" until you know it without thinking of it (both left and right handed). Save time when you are at the range figuring out what you're doing wrong if you don't have a friend or instructor to say things like 'dammit, I told you you'd keep going low and left if you do that fifty times now!"
Lasers also have utility in finding problems with presentation and trigger pull. They're cheap now too. I detest them as aiming devices but I've found them helpful at being able to immediately spot the muzzle wobbles and jerks in dry and wet fire practice. Coin on top of or near the front sight doesn't visually show you which way you screwed up in mangling your muzzle orientation like lasers do. It's only a couple screws to swap Crimson Traces or similar on and off your carry guns for training purposes.
Practice all MALF drills and reloading exercises with both hands individually as well as together.
Just some things I thought of off the top of my head.
Tom,
Thanks, those are exactly the ideas I need to develop a training regime.
I was up negotiating RSA related dealings and brain damaged today. Glad synapses are firing well enough to be helpful at this "early hour" as far as my now entirely goofed up body clock.
Always happy to be of assistance.
Remember the words of my DPS firearms instructor Cal (I'm not DPS, he's an instructor for them and a friend, so as there's no confusion about that point), that he spoke when I was practicing wrong hand drills but using my strong eye only as he watched me, saying nothing until the range went cold and I was done:
Well, if you were to lose your strong side hand, who's to say you didn't lose your strong side eye as well? You should learn how to do everything any way you might ever need to do those things.
You were using your left hand to shoot around the left side of cover. Is it a good idea to use your weak hand for shooting purposes so as to stay behind cover and then stick your head WAY OUT THERE so you can use your right eye like you've just done for the past 30 minutes I watched? You seem quite good at it and it might be useful some day BUT it kinda defeats the purpose of using your left hand to stay behind cover, don't it?
Might add, Cal is in the habit of carrying 3 guns, 2 spare mags for the 2 semi guns, and a backup revolver as well as multiple knives. Some may call him paranoid and compare him to the silly guy who had to have all the tacticool stuff in that first Police Academy movie, but he's about the same age as my dad, been in many a dangerous Peace Officer situation, and he isn't dead, which is something one can't say about a few people that have tried to kill him over the years.
:-)
Oh, in case you aren't on the mailing list, you likely aren't aware of this:
April 23, 2009 - TSRA Legislative Alert
On Monday, April 27, the Texas Senate's State Affairs Committee will consider Senate Bill 1164, important TSRA legislation allowing Concealed Handgun Licensees to protect themselves on college and university campuses.
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Please contact members of Senate State Affairs Committee, thank the co-authors, and urge all committee members to pass the bill out and protect it from changes not authored by Senator Wentworth.
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I was going to add a few things, but Tom Got to them all!
I just thought of something else if a couple hours windshield time/gas money to go shooting doesn't bother you in trade for NO RANGE FEES and more money available for ammo/components.
Fort Hood Sportsman's Range is FREE as in REALLY HONESTLY FREE for civilian (and LEO and Military Personnel) usage provided you follow their rules and it'd be about a 2 hour drive for you but FREE for approx 6 hours a day.
RULES:
All firearms must be registered with Provost.
Open 8:30AM - 2:45PM every day for pistols. Pistol Range positions at 10, 25, and 50 meters
Shotguns and Rifle 25, 50, 75, and 100 meters shooting Saturday and Sunday only. Slugs only with Shotguns.
No more than 5 firearms per person per day allowed entry on base. No limit on amount of ammo you bring with.
Need special permission and have to be checked out to fire .50BMG which nobody really much bothers with because shooting .50BMG at 100 yards is boring as hell and in spite of excessive pleading by a person named Thomas, they are NOT going to change the rules and let me or anybody else on the Armored Division Tank/Artillery Ranges even when offered money.
You must supply your own targets and ammunition and shooting up target frames is frowned upon.
Sportsman's Range Phone for any other questions is 254-287-0204
--Thomas side note, they don't discriminate but I've mentioned to them that my dad's first cousin is a retired 3 star, US Army. I don't talk about my dad being Lt. Colonel USAF (Retired). :-)
Your tax dollars at work for YOUR BENEFIT. It doesn't happen much in life so enjoy it while it lasts.
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