Drill suggests anyone?

[hube1236]

Yesterday, I am at the range, just doing one shot presentations at ten yards. At 1.68 - 1.75 seconds, I get A shots all day long- I find the sight and target. When I start pushing myself, gun comes in between my eyes and the target and I release, I get down to 1.25 - 1.5 seconds, and I hit -1 pretty much all of the time. Looking at the time, it behooves me to aim as unaimed will give me the .5 sec penalty.

1st question, how can I improve the speed of aimed draw. Do I just burn ammo at the 1.25 rate and train myself to see the picture sooner, or do I continue to aim and the repetition solves the problem,


Double taps, first one perfect- second one- low left clenching the fist I have been doing bill drills to help with the timing of the shots, any other recommends?

[Navy joe]

Take a class where a trained(Read IDPA master or better) competition instructor can point out the flaws in your draw. Failing that, buy Matt Burkett's videos. Lastly, burn ammo. No sense getting all herky jerky fast with it, do it slow breaking the draw into steps. Do it dry at home. Practice the steps separately first; i.e. moving hand to gun, just do that for five minutes a night, then practice with the steps put together. Then add ammo. For conserving ammo I like to load one in the mag and carry my spares loaded with one. Draw, slidelock load, holster, draw, slidelock. Practicing a couple of skills. You can vary it to fire a shot after the load and then holster, tac-loads, whatever, just load your spares accordingly.

[rwmagnus]

hube1236 I'll second Matt's videos the DVD's are a great resource. http://www.mattburkett.com V4 has alot on the draw, shooting faster etc. V5 covers IDPA pretty well, also touches on the draw.

I'd also suggest videoing yourself at least in dry practice. Sometimes what you thing your doing is different from reality. It would be nice to have a qualified instructor to lend a hand if one is available to you otherwise research what you want to know to death and practice. Just make sure your practice is quality practice.

[Eskimo Jim]

Check out the links on www.downzero.com. It is an IDPA club but there are lots of links there for various drills.

-Jim

[Ankeny]

Coaching over the Internet can be pretty hit or miss. Navy Joe is offering some pretty sound advice. I don't have a real stellar draw, but I still do OK in IDPA and IPSC. Don't get discouraged. If you spend time at a computer, there is a lot of information on Brian Enos' forums about the draw. Matt's tapes are good, as is Ron Avery's series.

As for "double taps", shun them like the plague. A true double tap consists of one sight picture followed by two rounds fired. There is no reason to ever shoot a double tap, even at close yardage, let alone at 10 yards. Develop the ability to shoot "controlled pairs". Get confirmation of the sight picture for both shots and call both shots with certainty. Visual and kinesthetic inputs gathered through total awareness of what we are doing, processed without consiously "trying", are what allow us to shoot at high speed. The eyes are the fastest part of the human body. Learn to use them. Always see what you need to see to make the shot.

[Correia]

Agree with Ankeny about the double tap. Other excellent advice above.

And video taping yourself shooting/drawing is great. Every time I watch myself shooting I learn something. (usually while I yell "what the heck was that supposed to be!?!" at the television).