Practice Drills

[9x45]

How often do shoot drills? Which ones? How many rounds? Scored and timed, or just to get it down. Which gun and holster? Concealed or Open?

[g.willikers]

The local outdoor range has restrictions on just about everything, so all shooting there are drills.
With target distances of either 10 or 25 yards on the one allowable cardboard backing per shooter of 28" square:
I attach five 6" circles, four in a square pattern with one in the middle.
Engaging the five circles in various sequences, with on the clock reloads, works pretty good, in spite of things.

[MrWesson]

If the range is slow fire and a set distance I typically increase range to uncomfortable levels and work on accuracy... 25yds is a good start but i'll shoot at 50 too.

If I can shoot from a holster I always take advantage of that but my local range is the type you back your car up to and have your own outdoor shooting "bay" @ 25-50yds. Its a killer setup.

I like the 10/10/10/10 drill. 10yds/10shots/10seconds/10" circle This is very hard to get right with a pocket pistol though... I'll move it a bit closer for that.

I don't time myself all the time but its nice to do.

I like steel shooting USPSA sized targets from a holster with double taps from a holster. No BS taping/setup.

While not shooting i'll google some video drills and copy. Drills are fun, keep me entertained and as a bonus make me better(or better at doing the wrong things).

I'll usually practice with about 300 rounds or until i'm tired of it(usually the later). FWIW I reload and shoot cast bullets so 300 rounds doesn't cost me much.. If I bought off the shelf i'd make it work with 100 or slightly more.

[Jeff22]

Here's a whole bunch of them:

http://thefiringline.com/forums/show...ighlight=drill

I do much of my practice at 50 feet on an indoor range. For the big guns I use IPSC or IDPA silhouette targets. For the .22 conversion units I usually use the NRA B-24 or NRA B-34 targets (which are 1/2 scale)

[Tactical Jackalope]

How often do shoot drills?

Drills? At least once a week. (Dry)

Live fire drills. I try to go out every month, at least once. Sometimes twice.

Which ones?

• Draw from concealment followed by one shot to COM or head.
• Draw from concealment followed by 2 shots to COM and 1 to the head.
• Draw from concealment followed by 3 shots to COM.
• Draw from concealment fire either string of numbered shots I mentioned followed by a reload of my spare mag and 2-3 more.
• Reloads.
• Tap, rack, bang.
• Have a friend or RO load my mags during drill with snap caps and practice clearing malfunctions.

How many rounds?

Anywhere from 50/100 - 200/250. Depends who's there.

Scored and timed, or just to get it down.

I practice what I'm not as good at most. Scored, yes at time. To get it down is most important, but getting better and better doesn't hurt.

Which gun and holster?

SIG Sauer P229 = NSR Tactical Holster AIWB or Raven Concealment IWB 4 o'clock (Rare)

SIG Sauer P226 = NSR Tactical Holster AIWB or Bravo Concealment Light Bearing Inforce APL AIWB or Safariland ALS Light Bearing OWB.

Concealed or Open?

These days mostly concealed.

[9x45]

Nice, yea I should have said live fire drills. So whats you time for a Mozambique drill time running the P229? At what distance? That is a good standard because all the gun games use that in classifiers.

[Tactical Jackalope]

I won't say time, because it happens every single time. I get challenged to revolve my life around reporting and "proof" with videos, time sheets, notaries, Massad Ayoob to endorse me, etc. I mean we can be friends and I can text you little videos here and there lol. But anyways.

I start at 3yds from retention to COM then take a step back and do the last head shot.

Then 5yds, then 7yds.

Clear cover garment, draw, present, shoot 3 as I said.

This is with the P229, 9mm, NSR Holster carried appendix, DA/SA.

[9x45]

Nice, I carry appendix also, the Alabama Hooker. Movement is good for that drill, most guys leave that out. Safariland horizontal mag pouch

[scroadkill]

Ive set up a small steel range down in my swamp - primarily 3 @ 2/3 AR500 idpa steel targets at 10-12 yards and 1ft apart, and a few small 8" gongs sprinkled around.

Ill invite one of my sons or friends over and we fire up the shot timer and run a few scored and timed drills..

for warm up..
vice presidente 111R111
one armed bandit SHO 111 R WHO 111
bill drill
el presidente 222R222
mozambique 111 -- (2 on 2/3 IDPA, 1 on 8" gong)

then we bring in the barricades and no shoots and start moving with 2-3 different shooting positions per string.
We keep moving the no-shoots around and mixing up the course of fire until low on ammo.

once low on ammo we play horse - call your shot. match it or take the letter.

100-150 rounds typical.

I just got my first CZ a SP01 shadow in 9mm.. Im working to get used to it, while staying familiar with trusty para 14.45

ideas and suggestions welcome.

[g.willikers]

^^^^^
You are so lucky to have your own range.
We used to have a place to do that kind of stuff, but it came under attack due to a few irresponsible members.
And the privileges of setting up whatever we wanted vanished.
A good source of ideas are the USPSA and IDPA Classifier list of stages, either as is, changed to suit, or in combination.

[9x45]

USPSA has hundreds of classifiers, but IDPA only has one. However, it's 90 rounds, and incorporates all of the skill sets in one setting. You can download the stage descriptions and setup from IDPA.com. 3 targets, one barricade, on barrel. 5 to 20 yards.

http://www.idpa.com/compete/stagedetails/39

here is the score sheet

http://www.cardboardkiller.com/docum...core_Sheet.pdf

[g.willikers]

IDPA has, or used to, a large collection of easy to set up courses of fire on their web site.
I just looked and they are gone.
But, fortunately many have been saved on club sites, like this one:
http://www.ukiahgunclub.com/html/idpa_stage.html