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    Week 191: Draws and Challenges Dry

    Week 191: Draws and Challenges Dry

    Results may be posted until December 18th, 2016.

    For this drill, all you need is your pistol, a target, and a safe direction. This is going be a dry practice drill that almost everyone can participate in regardless of range restrictions.

    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.

    Designed by Gabe White
    Target: Any silhouette target
    Range: Shooter's choice
    Rounds: 0

    [b]We are going to practice drawing and assuming various ready/challenge positions, drawing and pressing the trigger, and drawing and starting, but then rescinding, a trigger press.[/i]

    First, pick two ready positions. Doesn't really matter which ones, but pick two that you personally use.

    Next, complete as many cycles of the following drill as you want, until you get physically or mentally tired of it. It is fine to break the drill up over multiple sessions. Instead of doing a certain number of repetitions, just keep track of how much time you spend doing the drill.

    One cycle of the drill is:

    A. Acquire master grip on your holstered pistol but keep it holstered. You may optionally verbalize or include defensive body language such as extending the support hand in the universal sign for 'stop, stay back.'

    B. Draw to the first ready position you chose. Your finger should be in register the whole time and you should be able to see the entire silhouette target from your ready position (or at minimum, be able to see the silhouette's hands, were they hanging naturally at its sides.) You may optionally verbalize.

    C. Draw to the second ready position you chose. Your finger should be in register the whole time and you should be able to see the entire silhouette target from your ready position (or at minimum, be able to see the silhouette's hands, were they hanging naturally at its sides.) You may optionally verbalize.

    D. Draw to sights and press one dry shot. You choose what part of the target to aim at (body or head.) You may optionally verbalize during the draw, but don't delay your dry shot waiting on the optional verbalization.

    E. Draw to sights and begin to press one dry shot. But before you complete the trigger press, we're going to imagine that the situation has changed and you no longer wish to fire, so immediately stop pressing the trigger, put your finger in register, and bring the gun to any of your chosen ready positions. You may optionally verbalize.

    Options and considerations:

    Careful with the verbalization. If you are practicing in a place where there may be people unaware of what you are doing who might hear the verbalization and call 911 or otherwise intervene, please forego the verbalization.

    You may use concealment or not.

    You can vary your hand start positions as you choose.

    This drill is designed to cover a range of the challenges/draws that a person might use. It's fine if you want to spend extra time and focus on a specific part or parts of the overall drill.

    Please report: gun and holster used, concealment garment (if any), ready positions used, and anything you noticed during the drill.


    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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    Please report: gun and holster used, concealment garment (if any), ready positions used, and anything you noticed during the drill.

    Gen3G19 w/RMR in Fricke AIWB with pullover concealment.

    First position used was drawing to the 2 with vertical elbow shield.

    Second position was drawing to the 3.

    The drill didn't specify but I took a sidestep on C,D, and E. I did 17 minutes or reps but had to take a few breaks as my shoulder and tricep were cramping from drawing to the 2.

    With the reduced hours of daylight I have been getting to dry fire everyday but it has been mostly comp style stuff. This was a good break from that.
    Last edited by MVS; 11-18-2016 at 08:41 PM.
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