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#1 B.S. DuBois

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Posted 12 November 2011 - 08:27 PM

I'm a fan of this drill - try to do it at least once a session - really helps me with trigger control.

Feel free to post photos of how you did shooting this drill


Start at 3 yards. You have to get all 50 hits to pass. Once you can shoot the whole drill without a single miss, either increase the distance or add time pressure. For instance, try to finish the entire drill in under 5 minutes while maintaining 100% accuracy.

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  • Dot 1 – Draw and fire one string of 5 rounds for best group. One hole if possible, total 5 rounds.
  • Dot 2 – Draw and fire 1 shot, holster and repeat X4, total 5 rounds.
  • Dots 3 & 4 – Draw and fire 1 shot on #3, then 1 shot on #4, holster and repeat X3, total 8 rounds.
  • Dot 5 – Draw and fire string of 5 rounds, strong hand only, total 5 rounds.
  • Dots 6 & 7 – Draw and fire 2 shots on #6, then 2 on #7, holster, repeat X4, total 16 rounds.
  • Dot 8 – From ready or retention, fire five shots, weak hand only, total 5 rounds.
  • Dots 9 & 10 – Draw and fire 1 shot on #9, speed reload, fire 1 shot on #10, holster and repeat X3, total 6 rounds.
This is a great marksmanship drill that came from David Blinder at personaldefensetraining.com.

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#2 Prdator

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Posted 12 November 2011 - 09:22 PM

If you can Consistently clean this at 3yds your doing good!!!! Once you can do that move back one yard at a time ( keep it clean thought) My best is clean at 7yds and 48 at 8yds.

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Posted 14 November 2011 - 02:13 PM

I will have to try this. Seems like a fun and effective drill for sight and trigger control.

#4 Eric Gambill

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Posted 15 November 2011 - 12:19 AM

This drill is good enough by itself, but the time pressure added makes it a great drill for USPSA/IDPA. Use a timer and record your times on each string of the drill. Get 2-3 clean runs then start setting goals for the drill.....like shooting it clean with every string .10 under your average. This one has really helped me out, you could spend a year shooting it at 3 yards and always learn something.

I always tried to shoot it cold

#5 Baddman

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Posted 12 June 2012 - 08:25 PM

This is awesome! Gonna give this some time i think. Certainly will help me w/ the transition from open to ltd.

#6 TacticalK9

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Posted 12 June 2012 - 08:44 PM

sure is a great way to burn a few boxes of ammo!

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#7 Motojunkie

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 02:45 AM

This is my favorite drill. It tests many different skills and I always come away with lots of stuff to work on.

#8 Eric Gambill

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 03:28 AM

From what I said in the earlier post, I have stopped actually recording times for the strings. I cleaned this at 3 yards and have now moved to 5 yards (at match speed), crazy how much harder this drill gets with 2 extra yards.

#9 Jesse Tischauser

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Posted 14 June 2012 - 12:38 PM

Seems like it would be hard to remember all the different drills unless you stopped the timer to read the instructions in between.

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Posted 14 June 2012 - 01:12 PM

Seems like it would be hard to remember all the different drills unless you stopped the timer to read the instructions in between.


My first few times shooting it I had anoher target to peek at on the table next to me.

After a few times I've got it down. I shoot it backwards sometimes.

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#11 Eric Gambill

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Posted 14 June 2012 - 01:27 PM

Seems like it would be hard to remember all the different drills unless you stopped the timer to read the instructions in between.


I take an extra copy of the sheet with me on the clipboard.

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Posted 15 June 2012 - 07:55 AM

Wow! I'm a total newbie when it comes to actually shooting (competition or drills) but this sounds like an awesome training drill for any purpose! I'm going to have to try this!

#13 Scott_S

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Posted 04 December 2012 - 07:54 PM

I'm going to run this tomorrow thanks for posting the PDF

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Posted 08 December 2012 - 10:17 PM

This is rough! Thanks for posting.

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Posted 09 December 2012 - 12:11 PM

Crazy hard drill with a DA 1st shot! (Cz Shadow)
I've never come close to shooting this clean.


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#16 Scott Hearn

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Posted 09 December 2012 - 01:54 PM

Crazy hard drill with a DA 1st shot! (Cz Shadow)
I've never come close to shooting this clean.


Heh. Try it with a DA revolver...

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Posted 10 December 2012 - 07:07 PM

First one and I dropped one right out of #4 got hasty and it cost me. Made it to weakhand only and dropped another. So 48/50 2 down. Next session I'll clean it and then work on faster/further.




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