Mr_White
09-29-2016, 02:08 PM
Posting this one day early - hopefully no one minds.
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Week 184: Driving The Gun/Up Transitions
Results may be posted until October 30th, 2016.
Designed by: Gabe White
Target: Any silhouette target, including scaled targets
Range: Shooter's choice
Rounds: 0
This is one of several drills intended to work on shot calling, sight tracking, and trigger manipulation in dry fire. In this drill we're going to be working on an upward target transition, as if shifting fire from the body to the head.
At bare minimum, verify gun is unloaded, have no live ammo anywhere in the dry practice area, and keep muzzle in a safe direction. But there is more you can do to ensure safety in dry practice. Please also read Robust Dry Practice Safety Principles and Procedure following the drill description.
Target considerations: Try to arrange things so the target is at least as difficult as a full-size USPSA Metric or IDPA target at 7 yards. You can use basically any silhouette target for this, but if your available dry fire distance is less than 7 yards, I'd recommend using a scaled target. But you can do this drill if you have the bare minimum of a target representing a body/high thoracic cavity and a smaller target above it representing a head/CNS.
Drill procedure: Start aimed at the body/high thoracic cavity target. Press the trigger and dry fire the gun. Now, continuing to hold the trigger to the rear, use your support hand to cycle the slide enough that the striker is reset or hammer is recocked. Resume your two-handed grip. All that was preparation for what we are actually drilling, which is the next part: simultaneously let the trigger forward allowing it to reset as you drive the front sight to the new target spot - the head/CNS target. When you see sufficient alignment in the sight picture, press the trigger well enough for the target. Repeat many times.
That's how it is going to work with striker fired, single action, and DA/SA guns (this drill addresses shots after the first one, so even a DA/SA gun is essentially going to function as SAO for purposes of the drill.) With a true DAO, you can skip the part where you break grip and cycle the slide to get the mechanism ready to reset.
You will be interrupting your grip a lot, so make sure you reacquire your real grip on the gun each time. Focus on resetting the trigger while driving the front sight into sufficient alignment with the next target and pressing the trigger carefully enough as soon as you would hit.
Do the drill for a period of time you choose, rather than for a specific number of repetitions.
Please report when you've completed the drill, what gun you used, how much time you spent on the drill, and anything you noticed.
Training with firearms is an inherently dangerous activity. Be sure to follow all safety protocols when using firearms or practicing these drills. These drills are provided for information purposes only. Use at your own risk.
Robust Dry Practice Safety Principles and Procedure (the closer you follow this, the fewer opportunities you will have to ND)
Principles:
Allow no distractions – focus exclusively on the task at hand
Keep muzzle in a safe direction
Use correct trigger finger discipline
Verify no live ammo in gun, on person, or in the dry practice area
Use dedicated dry practice targets that are put away until you consciously choose to begin dry practice, and taken down when you consciously end dry practice
Use dedicated dry practice magazines and dummy rounds/inert training cartridges that stay in the dry practice area (if you use any magazine or cartridges)
Procedure:
Unload gun in a location other than the dry practice area
Leave live ammo, and magazines with live ammo, completely outside the dry practice area
Enter the dry practice area
Verify gun is unloaded, that any magazines do not contain live ammo, and that any cartridges present are inert/dummy cartridges
Consciously choose to begin dry practice
Put up dry practice targets
Do your dry practice
Take down dry practice targets and put them away
Consciously choose to end dry practice
Exit the dry practice area and do something unrelated for a few minutes
Return gun to location and condition of your choosing
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Week 184: Driving The Gun/Up Transitions
Results may be posted until October 30th, 2016.
Designed by: Gabe White
Target: Any silhouette target, including scaled targets
Range: Shooter's choice
Rounds: 0
This is one of several drills intended to work on shot calling, sight tracking, and trigger manipulation in dry fire. In this drill we're going to be working on an upward target transition, as if shifting fire from the body to the head.
At bare minimum, verify gun is unloaded, have no live ammo anywhere in the dry practice area, and keep muzzle in a safe direction. But there is more you can do to ensure safety in dry practice. Please also read Robust Dry Practice Safety Principles and Procedure following the drill description.
Target considerations: Try to arrange things so the target is at least as difficult as a full-size USPSA Metric or IDPA target at 7 yards. You can use basically any silhouette target for this, but if your available dry fire distance is less than 7 yards, I'd recommend using a scaled target. But you can do this drill if you have the bare minimum of a target representing a body/high thoracic cavity and a smaller target above it representing a head/CNS.
Drill procedure: Start aimed at the body/high thoracic cavity target. Press the trigger and dry fire the gun. Now, continuing to hold the trigger to the rear, use your support hand to cycle the slide enough that the striker is reset or hammer is recocked. Resume your two-handed grip. All that was preparation for what we are actually drilling, which is the next part: simultaneously let the trigger forward allowing it to reset as you drive the front sight to the new target spot - the head/CNS target. When you see sufficient alignment in the sight picture, press the trigger well enough for the target. Repeat many times.
That's how it is going to work with striker fired, single action, and DA/SA guns (this drill addresses shots after the first one, so even a DA/SA gun is essentially going to function as SAO for purposes of the drill.) With a true DAO, you can skip the part where you break grip and cycle the slide to get the mechanism ready to reset.
You will be interrupting your grip a lot, so make sure you reacquire your real grip on the gun each time. Focus on resetting the trigger while driving the front sight into sufficient alignment with the next target and pressing the trigger carefully enough as soon as you would hit.
Do the drill for a period of time you choose, rather than for a specific number of repetitions.
Please report when you've completed the drill, what gun you used, how much time you spent on the drill, and anything you noticed.
Training with firearms is an inherently dangerous activity. Be sure to follow all safety protocols when using firearms or practicing these drills. These drills are provided for information purposes only. Use at your own risk.
Robust Dry Practice Safety Principles and Procedure (the closer you follow this, the fewer opportunities you will have to ND)
Principles:
Allow no distractions – focus exclusively on the task at hand
Keep muzzle in a safe direction
Use correct trigger finger discipline
Verify no live ammo in gun, on person, or in the dry practice area
Use dedicated dry practice targets that are put away until you consciously choose to begin dry practice, and taken down when you consciously end dry practice
Use dedicated dry practice magazines and dummy rounds/inert training cartridges that stay in the dry practice area (if you use any magazine or cartridges)
Procedure:
Unload gun in a location other than the dry practice area
Leave live ammo, and magazines with live ammo, completely outside the dry practice area
Enter the dry practice area
Verify gun is unloaded, that any magazines do not contain live ammo, and that any cartridges present are inert/dummy cartridges
Consciously choose to begin dry practice
Put up dry practice targets
Do your dry practice
Take down dry practice targets and put them away
Consciously choose to end dry practice
Exit the dry practice area and do something unrelated for a few minutes
Return gun to location and condition of your choosing