The one additional thing I would ask you both to keep your eyes on is the muzzle/sight stability when you get there. Basically, could you put two shots in the same fist size group once you get there without wobbling or pulling off target in over transition?
It’s not just the time that you are trying to make, it’s the muzzle stability. IMO as a pure technical drill, it wouldn’t just be the timing of a single shot on target, it would be the timing of a pair to be able to judge your stability once you got there.
So if going to play around with that dry and live, try it with a pair of shots.
I am still on vacation, but I did bring my strike clicker with me. If you listen with audio, you can hear the click of the trigger. Watch my hands at the click, there’s no bounce with the press out whereas there’s a little bounce as I’m trying to stop the transition from the low ready start.
https://youtu.be/F-ALGDx3IUE
Note that if your draw doesn’t have a horizontal press out at the end, you won’t get much of the benefit from this. For people who do a full extension rise up at the end of their draw or a fishing, casting wave from above, this won’t help (and the low ready will be superior).
Agreed, and I wasn’t implying tactics just technical commenting. The analogy to shooting while zippering would be shooting before starting pressing out from a compressed high ready. I estimate that I could probably still get thoracic shots on target from compressed high ready during the same time that somebody would be shooting legs or pelvis in a zipper. Either way would work in reality. Philosophically I kind of like being muzzle on intended target early.
EDIT: thought a video might help explain the compressed analogy to zipper. Listen with audio to hear the “shots.”
https://youtu.be/p5Osgofk8rw
Would it change the calculus if there was a table or chair in between you and the target and zippering might not have the intended effect? Yes, no, maybe? Again, I am not a tactician and I don’t mean to imply anything to that regard. Just technical thoughts.