We then started working on various drills. There were few drills shot with everyone on the line all at once. Most drills were shot one or two students at a time, which allowed Ben to give a lot of personalized feedback and coaching to every student. I believe it was arranged this way because there was relatively little time spent on basic skills in simple drills – don’t get me wrong, we did go through basic marksmanship, draws, and a few things that could be trained with everyone on the line. But most of the drills in this class were more complex, involving movement and multiple targets, and had to be done one student at a time for safety’s sake.
Throughout the weekend, we received instruction and ran drills covering basic marksmanship, shot calling and sight tracking, different ways of aiming/seeing what we needed to see, target transitions, partial targets, draws, single handed shooting and transfers, shooting into a position, shooting on the move, shooting out of a position, effective dry fire training, and especially USPSA stage analysis, planning, and execution. Dealing with complex USPSA stages was what we spent the most time on.