So I am making a big effort to make Master in IDPA and A class in USPSA next year. I have been looking at what I do with my limited practice time due to travel and realize that maximizing what time I have outside of just dry fire is gong to be important. Here is the training plan I came up with. Please give me your thoughts.
Goal: Have a meaningful live fire training session that practices all the fundamentals of competition shooting skills. The training session should be repeatable, easy to set up, and take minimal time out of the day. The training session should be trackable and easy to record to monitor progress. Total time from leaving the house to returning should be no more than 2.5 hours including drive time. Should be affordable and around 200 rounds per session.
To meet these goals I have decided to get away from using paper target as much as possible. I had 9 8" steel targets made that stand on 2x4s. My thought process is the 8" steel is the size of a down 0 in IDPA. All my times and practice will be recorded as time and hits or misses. This way I put more of a premium on accuracy and don't have to tape anything. I still need one paper target to act like a barricade and I do need it for some of the distance fundamentals and the FAST drill. I keep this stuff in my truck. The range is 20 min from my house, and this takes me about 10 - 15 min to set up. That gives me Over an hour of shooting time. I hope to get this down so door to door I am only taking 2 hours out of my day.
Here is the plan:
String 1: Fast Drill cold @ 7 yards (2 to the head, slide lock reload 4 to the body) 6 Rounds
- Test on demand performance. Benchmark
String 2: Walk Back Drill. *Fire three rounds each at 3, 7, 10, 15, and 20 yards with no time. 15 Rounds
- Enforce fundementals of grip, trigger, and sight picture
String 3 - 5: 1 Reload 2 @ 10 Yards x3. 9 Rounds
- Speed
- Reloads
- Sight Picture
- Trigger
String 6 - 7: Fire 2 rounds each, reload fire 2 rounds each @ 10 yards. 24 Rounds
- Speed
- Reloads
- Target transitions
String 8 - 9: Fire 2 rounds each while moving @ 10 yards, reload fire 2 rounds each @ 15 yards while moving 24 Rounds
- Shooting while moving
- Reloading while moving
- Distance transitions
String 10 - 11: Fire two rounds each @ 10 yards, slide lock or speed reload. Fire 2 rounds each @ 15 yards. Tactical reload while moving to 12 yards fire two rounds each. 36 Rounds
- Position entry and exit
- Moving under time pressure
- Various reloads
String 12 - 13: Fire two rounds each strong hand, reload, fire two rounds each weak hand @ 10 yards. 12 Rounds
- Strong and weak hand shooting
- Pistol transitions
- Grip and single hand trigger control
String 14 - 15: Fire two rounds each strong hand, reload, fire two rounds each weak hand @ 15 yards. 12 Rounds
- Strong and weak hand shooting
- Pistol transitions
- Grip and single hand trigger control
String 16: Fire two rounds each left side of barricade, reload fire two rounds each right side of barricade. 12 Rounds
- Barricade transitions
- Shooting from cover
String 17: Fire two rounds each left side of barricade left hand only, reload fire tow rounds each right side of barricade right hand only. 12 Rounds
- Strong and weak hand shooting
- Pistol transitions
- Grip and single hand trigger control
- Barricade transitions
- Shooting from cover
String 18: Fire 8 rounds on the paper targete @ 40 yards, no time. 8 Rounds
String 19: Fast Drill @ 7 yards (2 to the head, slide lock reload 4 to the body) 6 Rounds
- Benchmark
Total of 200 rounds.
Attached is the range set up.
Thanks for your input.
Jay