Dry Practice Observations 2018

[Coach]

Bill reload bill
Bill drills
step in and 6
move 6, reload and 6
Left to right
right to left

 

[Coach]

Live fire tonight.
With the Limited gun:

3 yard draws from hand at sides.
3 yard draws from Surrender.
Near to far
Transitions from 25 yards
50 accuracy
Absorbing the draw at 15 yards.

Approx 235 rounds fired. Some were lead bullets I was given. Lead sure is smokey.

With the carry gun from concealment:
3 yard draws
7 yard draws
3x2
One hole drill
Weak hand draws

about 90 rounds fired.

It got dark on me.

 

[cedartop]

Dry fire with EDC from concealment.

Gabe White Standards
MSP Standards

 

[Coach]

Step in
LMR
RML
Left to right
right to left
Shooting on the move. (forward and backward)
Bill Drill
Turn and Draw
Front sight forward
plate transitions

 

[cedartop]

Live fire. A lot of 25 yard work, Defoor #2, Bills, Blakes. Up at 10 yards did draws to the head and shooting on the move via figure 8.

 

[riverman67]

Work has been, well, work these last two days.
In early, out late.
I'll double up tomorrow
I'm going to sleep

 

[Coach]

The timer says I am making some progress on Bill Drills. I have been trying to focus on gripping harder with the weak hand and relaxing the right hand. Seems to be helping.

 

[Coach]

Table top unloaded starts
Step in
Bill reload Bill
Move 6, reload 6
Left to Right
Right to Left

 

[cedartop]

Table top unloaded starts
Step in
Bill reload Bill
Move 6, reload 6
Left to Right
Right to Left

For whatever reason I always forget to keep these in my rotation.

 

[riverman67]

Session 1
1 thru 12 from r and r
Outer limits
Pendulum
5 to go
I suspected my draw was getting lazy so I went back to the basics a couple of sessions ago.
I'm back to chasing a .7 to a sight picture.
That's where I was last winter and about as good as I ever get.
I'm going to start working the other stuff back in

 

[Coach]

For whatever reason I always forget to keep these in my rotation.

Glad I could help.

Still no new injuries doing it.

 

[Coach]

Plate transitions
Straight plates
Unloaded table starts
Turn and draw
Step in
Left to Right
Right to left
LMR
RML
Shooting on the move
Bill Reload Bill
Bill Drills
Move, reload 6

Concealed draws from appendix (halfass appendix)
3X2 from concealment

 

[riverman67]

Second session yesterday
Carry gun stuff
Today
Carry gun stuff
Limited gun
Outer limits
Pendulum
5 to go
Starts and stops
Starts and stops 2
Moving starts and stops
1-10 from R and R while moving.

 

[Coach]

Loading ammo and cleaning guns today.

 

[riverman67]

I cleaned guns
I'm currently visiting with one of the children
Niece, nephew and the MIL left about 1130.

 

[Coach]

All this dry practice and now we need a slicker.

 

[riverman67]

 

[rhino]

I will be interested in knowing how your USPSA classification percentages are changing with the intense dry practice.

 

[Coach]

I am going to shoot Production at the Parabellum special classifier to try and improve my classification. I am not sure if I will use my carry gun or not yet. My Limited classification is not going to move. I can predict that for certain. Classification is not my goal. I want to be more competitive at Nationals. I have not had enough live fire matches to do that is my assessment. But I am trying to fix that between now and Nationals. Trying to do the best I can with the time I have available.

 

[rhino]

I am going to shoot Production at the Parabellum special classifier to try and improve my classification. I am not sure if I will use my carry gun or not yet. My Limited classification is not going to move. I can predict that for certain. Classification is not my goal. I want to be more competitive at Nationals. I have not had enough live fire matches to do that is my assessment. But I am trying to fix that between now and Nationals. Trying to do the best I can with the time I have available.

I asked because it seems like so many of the stand-and-shoot classifiers require specifically the skills most people drill in dry practice. I'm curious how that will go.

What I'd be interested in seeing isn't necessarily how the best six of eight moves, but more how the scores do on individual classifiers. I would expect that someone who got to their class by heroing six classifiers, but did poorly on all of the others would be more consistent on all of their classifier scores after some intense dry practice. Then I would expect to see most of their classifiers to score about the same percentage as their classification percentage.