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KR Training – 2014-04-26 – DPS2/AT-2 Quick Hits

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Summer’s coming, so:

  1. Drink Water
  2. Apply sunscreen
  3. Drink Water (h/t Caleb Causey)

We had no heat-related problems at KR Training this past Saturday, but it’s just time to remind folks to update their habits because yes… Texas summer is coming.

The past couple years saw a huge rush for foundation-level classes. Now it seems that everyone’s happy to have a gun and the basic knowledge of how to use it, so now folks want a little more. There’s certainly an uptick in the intermediate-level courses, both interest and enrollment. That we had another AT-2: Force-on-Force Scenarios was a great thing. It is wonderful to see people understanding the value of such a class and being willing to undertaking that education. In fact, one of the students in the AT-2 course commented that she didn’t want to take the class, but afterwards was very glad she did.

Speaking of enrollment, it was the usual: varied. Men and women, young and old, various socio-economic strata. Yeah, you just keep trying to stereotype gun owners and people that understand and are willing to undertake responsibility for themselves.

As for the classes themselves? Things went pretty well. Here’s a couple points I’ll highlight for students.

#1 – Marksmanship still matters.

Yes, being “combat accurate” is a thing (tho I don’t care for that term). This isn’t bullseye shooting for sure, this isn’t about trying to get the tightest group possible. But you still have to get within a reasonable area (e.g. 6″ circle). You still need to hit what you’re needing to hit — you can’t just throw lead and hope for the best.

This all goes back to the notion of “(un)acceptable hits“.

Trigger press, sight alignment, these things matter. Speed matters too, but a fast miss doesn’t do you any good. If you have to go a half-second slower but you can nail it every time? Then go slower, nail it, and in time the speed will come.

#2 – Plan and figure things out beforehand.

This is likely one of the biggest lessons to come out of the Force-on-Force work. If you have never thought about your plans, what to do if X happens, when X happens is the worst time to try to figure things out. Maybe you will be able to, but it’s going to eat up precious time.

But if you’ve been around this Earth long enough, you likely understand the phrase about how proper prior planning and preparation prevents piss poor performance. The same holds here. Whether that’s talking with your spouse and children about what to do should the flag fly, how to handle in-home action (e.g. what room is the “safe room” and how to go about getting there), secret phrases (“We need to leave, now” or “Pineapple Pineapple!”), figuring this stuff out ahead of time helps. In fact, being involved in the FoF scenarios themselves gives you some ideas and plans — “Hey, I’ve seen this before”. It doesn’t have to be a real encounter either (the power of visualization comes into play here).

I hope all the students had a great day. I enjoyed working the shoot house again. We continue to refine our work there, and feedback from students is positive.

Thank you all for coming out. Hope to see you at the range again soon.

Drink water!

 

Applying 1A to 2A

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David Kopel, an adjunct professor of advanced Constitutional law, has published a paper examining how SCOTUS has used the First Amendment for guidance on Second Amendment questions.

You can read a summary/overview here.

The full paper can be found here. Here’s the abstract

As described in Part I of this article, the Supreme Court has strongly indicated that First Amendment tools should be employed to help resolve Second Amendment issues. Before District of Columbia v. Heller, several Supreme Court cases suggested that the First and Second Amendments should be interpreted in the same manner. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago applied this approach, using First Amendment analogies to resolve many Second Amendment questions.

Part II of this Article details how influential lower court decisions have followed (or misapplied) the Supreme Court’s teaching. Of course, precise First Amendment rules cannot necessarily be applied verbatim to the Second Amendment. Part III outlines some general First Amendment principles that are also valid for the Second Amendment. Finally, Part IV looks at how several First Amendment doctrines can be used in Second Amendment cases, showing that some, but not all, First Amendment doctrines can readily fit into Second Amendment jurisprudence.

I have not yet had a chance to read the full paper, but I did want to comment on a related matter I was thinking about prior to learning of this paper.

The notion of “if it saves just one life, then it’s worth it”.

I was reading this article and it trotted out the “just one life is worth it” trope. Yes, the article is from the NRA-ILA so it has an expected slant, but it got me thinking.

Is this really valid reasoning?

Can we apply this reasoning to other Constitutionally protected rights, such as those listed in the First Amendment? And would those so willing to apply this trope to 2A be willing to apply it to 1A?

Let’s consider cyberbullying. Consider the numerous children that have committed suicide or violently “acted out” as a result of cyberbullying. How can we prevent cyberbullying? Well, it does seem that banning computers or banning the Internet is never brought up as a solution, but if there was no access to computers or the Internet — if they were banned — then certainly “cyber” would cease to exist and so too would cyberbullying.

If it saves just one life, isn’t that worth it?

Isn’t curtailing free religion, free speech, free press, free association — because it could save just one life — worth it?

Well, isn’t it worth it?

Have a reason

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I know.

“It’s cool.”

But so what? What does it really gain you? What true purpose does it serve?

In his book, Strength, Life, Legacy, Paul Carter writes about having a reason for everything:

Every movement, set, rep, volume, frequency, everything you do, you should know WHY you are doing it. Are you doing this because someone said you should, or are you doing it because someone said you should be doing it? If they did, did they tell you why you should be doing it?

When you sit down to write out your routine and your programming, everything should have a reason for being on that piece of paper. And it shouldn’t be vague, like “I do this because I wanna get jacked.” That’s not really a clear cut reason.

I bench press because I need to build my bench for competition. I do inclines after that because I have found that inclines help my bench press very much. I get very good carryover from it.

I do pause squats to build my bottom position strength.

I do block deadlifts and shrugs because block deads have helped me off the floor as do shrugs (yes shrugs have helped me off the floor). This is where I am weak in the deadlift.

I do some curls because it helps keep my elbows feeling good.

I do ab work because I compete beltless, and I know my abs need to be very strong.

That’s basically my whole competition routine breakdown. Everything I do has a very particular reason for being in there. If you have movements in your routine, have a reason for each one being in there. Otherwise why is it in there?

Always ask yourself these kinds of questions in order to help make yourself a better programmer and planner.

Yeah, it’s about powerlifting, but it applies to anything in life.  If you are doing something, you should have a specific, known, and articulable reason for it.

I’m going to apply it to firearms.

During classes at KR Training, we see all sorts of equipment selection, we see people that come from having other training backgrounds. We question people as to why they have this equipment, or why they do some skill in some way. This isn’t to prove that our way is right and theirs is wrong, it’s about ensuring there is a solid reason. I can think of two illustrations.

I remember we had a student that had a lot of training from another school. At that school, they taught to always rack the slide. Yes, this often meant they ejected a good round. We asked why he did what he did; “because it’s what I was taught”. Of course, but why? “To ensure there’s always a round in the chamber.” So far, so good, but didn’t you know there was one? “Yes, but it doesn’t matter because always doing it eliminates the need and time consumed doing a diagnostic check.” Fair enough. He understood the trade-off of losing the round (and being “down by 1”), and he knew that in a more administrative situation to just do things like press-checking. But when he was “in the fight”, it was a far simpler mode of operation to just always rack it and ingrain that motor habit, instead of having diagnostic branching and decision making. That’s not how we do it, but he knew what he was doing, why he was doing it, the trade-offs, was willing to accept the trade-offs, and basically had a thoughtful decision instead of blindly following tacticool dogma. No problem there, man.

We have seen various types of equipment, including those ultra-minimal holsters that are nothing more than a clip of kydex that covers the trigger guard, with a string attached so the kydex breaks away when you draw the gun. OK, why do you use this equipment? What does it gain you? What are you losing? Is this the best equipment for a class (you’ll be drawing and reholstering numerous times; is this going to facilitate or inhibit class)? Outside of class, how do you expect to reholster? If you did have to draw your gun in self-defense, how much fiddle-farting are you going to have to do to reholster that gun (because you will need to)? and do you think you’ll always have a nice, calm opportunity to do so? Let’s not get into the SERPA holster either…

In the end, there’s not always One True Right Answer to things. Those little clips may wind up being the right answer given your particular daily circumstances. Me, I don’t like carrying really small guns, nor do I like changing my carry gun to match my pursue or the weather. But time to time it happens that circumstances force me to make choices I wouldn’t normally make. At least I can explain and articulate my choices and reasons.

Don’t take this as a dis on your personal choices. In fact, don’t let ego get involved in the first place. Make sure you have solid, articulable reasons for your decisions and choices. Make sure they are helping you achieve your goals.

On hearing protection – learn from my mistakes

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Oh what a difference there is in hearing protection.

There’s no question I’ve lost some of my hearing — just ask my wife. 😉  The main culprit in my life is loud music, but motorcycles and guns haven’t helped. On the guns front, I just got a major upgrade in preserving what hearing I have left.

I used to just have thick passive ear muffs. Offered like 33-34 NRR, worked nicely, but of course, you can’t hear very well — which is the point, but did make things difficult when in classes or teaching and you need to hear and give range commands.

So I bought a pair of Pro Ears Predator Gold. Why these? Because Pro Ears are top of the line. But I got the “slim cup” model because if I was going to spend that much, I wanted something I could use with any firearm. At the time, I was doing more long-gun shooting, so this made sense. Since then tho, I’ve found that I pretty much stick with handguns. But more so, a vast majority of time I’m around guns it’s during a class when there could be up to a dozen handguns going off at the same time, rapidly, many rounds, and yeah, that gets loud.

So something like the Predators, with only about 26 NRR, are OK, but not the most protection you can get.

What made it worse? After all the sun, sweat, sunscreen, etc. the cup pads were getting hard. With the pads getting hard, that meant they didn’t hold to my head as snuggly as fresh pads would. Furthermore, with both my seeing glasses and then shooting protection glasses, the arms of the glasses go under the muff cup pads, which breaks that seal even more. I had noticed over the past year that I didn’t always like being in classes, too close to the line. I’d be flinching and finding that there was just too much noise coming in.

I finally got off my duff and ordered a new set of ears: the Pro Ears Pro Tac Mag Gold. They say they have 30 NRR, but I’ve seen this model also listed at 33 and 34, so who knows… maybe minor design changes over the years? I finally got to wear them in classes a few weeks ago, and gee if I wasn’t happier!

The cup pads were soft, and conformed quite well to my head.

The band was pretty tight, and really held the cups in place and pressed things firmly against my head. Not too firm that it hurt, but firm enough to ensure a good seal. This along with the fresh pads helped mitigate the glasses issues.

The extra NRR? Well, I’ll just say I barely noticed the gunfire, in terms of it “hurting” my hearing. Awesome!

I got this particular model because they can accept CR123A batteries. That’s nice for me since I have enough things using that style of battery, I don’t have to have a special load of “N” size batteries just for my hearing protection. They do warn this takes up a little more cup space, but it was not a problem for me. In fact, I always felt the cups were too shallow in the Predators for me, which may have helped cause some of my problems because 1. it meant less snuggness against the face, 2. if there was physical contact, it could be transmitting the sound waves right down to my eardrum anyways.

Now, the Tac model inverts the cups to help with cheek weld. Well, maybe YOU can do it, but I tried and it was just a fail. So I flipped my cups over (easy to snap off and on). Sure the logo is upside down, but who cares.

So folks, a few lessons:

  1. Get the best hearing protection you can. You spent all that money on a great gun to help protect your life. But to have your life and lose your hearing wouldn’t be so hot. So, protect it and don’t skimp. I’ll still keep my Predators around for long-gun use, but using them will be exception and not the rule.

  2. Keep the hearing protection in good shape. Replace the pads, keep fresh batteries around, give it a wipe-down before you shove it back in your range bag, and so on. Take care of your investment.

 

Engagement Distances

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The April 2014 Rangemaster newsletter discusses engagement distances of private citizen self-defense incidents. You should read the whole article (it’s only a page long), but here’s a key take-home:

We have had over 60 student involved shootings. Of those, two incidents occurred at less than 3 yards. One involved intentional physical contact between the shooter and the offender, the other involved purely accidental contact. The vast majority of these shootings occurred at distances between 3 yards and 7 yards, with the bulk of those at 3 to 5 yards. So, we see that the typical self-defense shooting is well beyond arm’s-length and may be past the length of your car. The average American sedan is 16 feet long. That is approximately 5 yards. My Silverado pickup is a little over 18 feet long, or 6 yards. This is way beyond arm’s-length.

Another useful thing is a graph Tom made:

Now consider that. 92.1% of his student incidents were in the 3-7 yard range! That’s certainly not “arms length”.

Here’s another point to consider.

I was recently listening to a trainer/instructor giving some shooting advice. He said something to the effect of learning to shoot at 25 yards, because if you can do it there, you can do it at closer distances. I take some issue with that statement.

Now, I understand where he’s coming from, because generally speaking getting acceptable hits from 25 yards is a harder task than getting acceptable hits at 3 yards. And if you can do a harder version of a task, you can probably also do the easier version of the task. So I get what he’s after and I don’t totally disagree with him.

But here’s the thing.

It’s harder.

If I’m teaching someone to shoot, I am not going to set a target at 25 yards and expect them to hit it. No, I’m going to start them out at 3, 5, or 7 yards (depending what the range will let me do, the closer the better) because I want the student to succeed. If the first thing the student does is fail, that doesn’t bode well for their ego, nor their desire to keep coming back to learn (nor their perception of you as a teacher). If they can see “yeah, I can do this!”, then you slowly build up to a higher difficulty level. Build their confidence, build their skill and ability. This is how you teach, and how most people are receptive to teaching and learning.

It also brings me back to my discussions on minimum competency. If I need to get someone going with the minimum skillset that gives them the most payoff when weighed against the most likely circumstances and situations they could find themselves in, then I want to work them in that 0-5 yard, 0-7 yard, maybe out to 10 yards range. If the student’s goal is to learn how to use a pistol for self-defense, if the overwhelming majority of incidents happen in that 3-7 yard range, then at least at the onset the student should learn to function in that context and the teacher should verify that the student can function in that context!

Furthermore, it is a different skill to shoot at 25 yards (go read Brian Enos’ book).

While it’s unfortunate that Memphis is such a violent city (read another article in the 2014-04 Rangemaster newsletter about “Violent Crime Reporting”), it does provide us with a fair amount of data we can use to better understand self-defense incidents, what happens during them, and how good citizens can respond to them.  Yes, learn to shoot well at 25 yards, but start first at 5 yards.

(thanx to Tom Hogel for the graphic, and the inspiration to write this article).

KR Training – 2014-04-05 – DLG-E/DLG-E Quick Hits

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This past Saturday at KR Training was slightly different — we had 2 classes, and they were the same class. Two classes is the norm, but usually it’s different classes. There’s been such a demand for Defensive Long Gun: Essentials, Karl scheduled it twice in the same day. Full house each time, great weather, the day was set for goodness!

Karl is updating curriculum in light of the new shoot house structure. I spent both classes running students one-by-one through the shoot house. Given the class is about long-gun use in a home-defense situation, it helps to get some experience at dealing with walls, corners, movement, target discernment, etc.. Granted, the bigger lesson that most everyone already knew was: call the police, hunker down. Room clearing is not something you really want to do, movement through your house (or office, or some other building) with a known threat is not an ideal thing to do. But life may necessitate it (is your house’s floorplan such that your room is on one side of the house and your children’s on another? If Junior screams in the middle of the night, you’re going to move).

Biggest things I can relay to the students is what I said at the end of class regarding what I saw:

  • Don’t crowd the cover.
    • You have this tool that is purpose-built to overcome distance, so you don’t have to. Yes, “monkey-brain” wants to close the distance and smash with rock, but we have better tools so let’s work to overcome our monkey-brain and use our tools in the best way possible.
    • In short: distance is your friend. Put as much distance between you and the danger as you can.
  • Target discernment is vital.
    • You just can’t shoot because of preconceived notions or what you think might happening. You have to know. Granted it was tough when you just had static pictures (no sound, no motion) but the lessons were learned.
    • You have to be sure you can see what you need to see. Work on ready positions. Make sure when the gun is in the ready position that you can see all you need to see; some people were holding the carbine somewhat high and couldn’t see what was below (e.g. maybe his hands were at his beltline). Work on being able to quickly mount the gun from the ready position.
  • And remember, beer & tv.

For those curious about shotgun ammo, here’s the link to the shotgun ammo trials I did. Remember, the key thing you want is:

  • Federal Premium FLITECONTROL
    • The FLITECONTROL is the most important bit.
  • 00 buckshot. 8-pellet preferred (over the 9-pellet)
  • Low-recoil (might just say 1145 fps, vs. the 1325 fps, or whatever it is)
  • Then other things like:
    • 12 gauge
    • 2.75″ shells

As for our own internals, the more we use the shoot house, the more we learn. We’re getting better at how to set it up and run through things, ensuring maximum learning, but also not taking too much time so we can get everyone in class run through it. Timing worked out much better this day than the prior classes. We’ll continue to refine and improve.

Here’s an AAR from one student (twmaster)

Thank you all for coming out!

 

KR Training news

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Couple bits of KR Training-related news.

First, the April 2014 newsletter is up. Classes through the summer are scheduled. Some cool offering this summer as well.

Second, a mailing list (Yahoo Group) has been started for KR Training alumni. It’s a place where you can ask questions or share links to articles, for those that want more discussion than we do on Facebook or in the newsletter. You can find the list on it’s official Yahoo Group’s page or by sending an email to krtraining-alumni-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

 

Why 2?

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I read this article (h/t to Greg Ellifritz) about carrying folding knives:

So, now I’m going to blow your mind. What side do you carrying your folder and let’s say you cannot carry a fixed? I would say the vast majority and I mean like everyone I see in classes carries their folder on their strong side. Again, we have to go back to defining the mission. Is this a secondary weapon, your pistol being the primary. If it is, then the better approach is to carry the folder on your weak side. The first thing people say is I cannot use my weak hand for anything. That’s a lot like a boxer saying they can’t jab with their weak hand…doesn’t make much sense does it. If you are a bit awkward on your weak side then you will need to train. We have been training on the folding knife for several years and I’m surprised to hear folks comment about how easy it was to pick up the folder on the weak side with the right structure.

We try to encourage folks to look at themselves from a bi-lateral point of view. That means consideration for weapon system available and deployable from your weak side. Not every scenario is a gun scenario, you have to find the balance. That is code for not getting you face punched in before you can think of other weapon systems. Then being able to retrieve and deploy the blade from a folder is the next progression.

So I’m going to blow your mind: carry 2 folders, one on each side.

Part of my EDC are 2 folding knives (Spyderco Delicas, if you’re curious). I learned this from Insights Training Center in their Defensive Folding Knife class. The folders are both set the exact same way: tip-up carry, clipped inside my front pant pocket, one on my left, one on my right. Yes, that means the one on the left is “backwards”, but trust me it works for consistency. It does mean when I draw with the left hand, I must give the knife a flip, but that’s alright because then I have consistent motion. If I use my right hand to obtain the knife on the left, it’s the same as using my right hand to obtain the knife on the right! Same with the left: it’s consistent no matter which knife I go for.

I often get the question: why do you carry two knives?

We can go back to the whole “2 is 1, 1 is none” mantra, and while true that’s not the primary reason. The primary reason is because sometimes you can’t get to one so you have to go for the other.

It doesn’t even have to be in a combat situation. I use my knives for daily tasks, like opening letters, opening packages — cutting things, you know, what knives were designed to do.( BTW, for those that discourage using your “fighting knife” to open letters because it will dull the blade: 1. the daily drawing of my knife is another rep, another bit of practice towards deployment and use, 2. this is why the Spyderco Tri-Angle Sharpmaker was invented; buy one, use it.) And even in my daily life, sometimes I cannot get to my desired knife. Maybe I’m lying on my side. Maybe I’ve got a seat-belt in the way (and sometimes I’m driving, and sometimes I’m a passenger). Who knows. But believe me, having worn 2 knives like this for the past 6 years, while I may generally go for the same-side knife, there have been more than enough times when I had no choice but to go for the other-side — and so far, no knife fighting outside of the classroom.

And yes, sometimes I go for the other-side knife just for the practice.

I agree with the author about the importance of weak-side and being offset from your primary. But even then, you may not be able to get to your one-side, and there’s so little cost and overhead in having a folder on both sides. Consider it.

KR Training – 2014-03-29 – DPS2/AT-2/AT-1A Quick Hits

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Another “big day” in the books.

Twice a year, KR Training offers a big day of training: 3 classes in one day. Usually the offerings are: Defensive Pistol Skills 2, AT-2: Force on Force Scenarios, and AT-1A: Low Light Shooting. The day winds up being this way because of AT-1A as there’s only a small window at certain times of the year it can be offered due to the need to coordinate class time vs. sunset. It makes for a great day training, that goes well beyond the simple mechanics of shooting, into more mindset and tactics issues — like “maximize enjoyment of beer & tv“.

There’s really not much for me to say about this class, other than how awesome it was!

The weather was perfect.

The classes were sold out, with a good demographic mix. I’m happy to see more women showing up for beyond-beginner-level classes, because personal responsibility, personal safety, and refusing to be a victim is a topic for all genders.

The students were awesome. We really had a great group. No safety issues. Great questions. Eager and open to learning. Good skills. What really impressed me was how they kept going forward. I don’t recall the exact numbers, but I think 70-80% of the students were there for two classes, and probably 40-50% were there for all three. That’s a LOT of information, a lot of stress and pressure, and you just get tired. But even at the end of the day, students were still applying the lessons from the morning class. That’s tough to do all things considered. But we just had a sharp group of students.

So is there much for me to offer up? No, not really. 🙂

Best I can say to the attending students is given the vast amount of information, it’s unlikely you’ll remember it all. Focus on remembering at least 3 things, or maybe more if you can. Think about new stuff you learned, something you found you need more work on (weak-hand-only?), and perhaps if there were any eye-opening or sobering/humbling moments (maybe the force-on-force?). Write those down, and work on those. The other information is in your head and will come back, but for now, at least focus on a few key things instead of struggling to remember it all.

There was one other cool part of the day. If you follow KR Training’s Facebook Page you’ve seen the construction of a third berm. The intent of this berm is to be a 270º-360º berm, with a semi-permanent shoothouse structure. Karl’s been working hard on this construction, and we got to break in the shoothouse! It was certainly a maiden voyage, and we discovered some kinks that will be worked out. Special thanx to all the students for your patience in this regard.

There was one thing that hit me as worthy of writing on, but I’ll save that for another day.

Thanx to all who came out. I hope you had as good a day learning as we did teaching.

Standards of Performance

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Karl emailed the following to me. He said:

I put this together for Kathy Jackson to use as part of her talk at
the AG&AG conference next week. If you want to use it on your blog, go ahead.

It’s going to become part of a larger article I’m putting together based on my slides from the Polite Society talk.

I asked what the greater context of this was, given the percentages. Karl said:

Kathy is trying to show the AG&AG Facilitators (club leaders) some points along the path to instructor level skill, or at least reasonable competence.

So with that, here’s what Karl provided (reformatted for presentation). Karl’s stuff is blockquoted, and I added some additional comments in between.

A reasonable skills progression to recommend:

0. Purchase a shooting timer. The Pocket Pro I is the ‘best buy’ on the low end of timers, and the easiest to operate. Without a shooting timer, you can’t fully measure performance.

Note that there are some cheaper options too, in the form of “shot timer” apps for smartphones (both iPhone and Android). Your mileage may vary with them however, just due to limitations of the hardware microphone being able to pick things up. IMHO it’s not an unreasonable way to start, but long-term you’re going to want to pick up a dedicated and proper shot timer.

1. 100% on the Texas CHL test shot using an IDPA or IPSC target, not a B-27. IDPA/IPSC has a smaller A-zone. Shooting 100% on Texas CHL is basically 25% of GM.

Note: when Karl gives “percent of GM” he’s referring to IPSC/USPSA Grandmaster-level. This isn’t to say you need to shoot at that level, but it gives you some idea of where things lie along the continuum.

2. Learn to draw from an open carry holster and be consistent i your shot to shot timing.

Bill Drill = par time of 5 seconds at 7 yards with all A’s on IPSC or IDPA target. That’s a 40% goal.

Aside: just a few weeks ago, Bill Wilson himself (creator of the “Bill Drill”) discussed a new version of the Bill Drill, called simply enough “Bill Drill 2“.

3. Learn to do a speed reload. Practice “Four Aces” with a par time of 7 seconds, which is 37%.

4. Learn a slide lock reload. Practice the FAST drill. Set a par time of 12 seconds, from open carry. This is a 40% goal.

5. Learn how to draw from concealment, practice shooting one handed. Shoot a perfect score (100 points) on “Three Seconds or Less“. That’s a 50% goal.

6. Learn how to clear malfunctions. Practice the “Farnam Drill“. Set a par time of 15 seconds, which is around 50%.

Finally, shoot the IDPA Classifier (also found here) with a goal of shooting at least 160 seconds (162 is 40%, 130 seconds is 50%).