[45Gunner]

Four friends have kicked in just over $100 a piece to purchase a Target Tree. Our initial plan is to utilize it at our private range to build a combination of speed and marksmanship. All of us shoot 1911's so the plan is to practice emergency reloads during the course of competitive shooting against fellow team members. For those that don't shoot 1911's, our magazines hold either 7 or 8 rounds.
All drills begin from the holster.

Have you utilized a Target Tree to build skills and if so, how creative have you become in devising drills to use it to maximum utilization? Can you share those drills?

Have you found other methods to train which promote accuracy and speed other than just shooting at paper targets against a stop watch?

(FYI, we all carry the 1911 concealed which is why we train so diligently with it.)