Johrichal Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Hi everyone, just trying to get started in uspsa production shooting and was wondering if you guys have any suggestions for drills. I went out and tried shooting double shots at multiple targets yesterday and the results were pretty bad. Takes me way too long to get my sight picture back and accuracy of my second shot is not very good. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixxerjunky Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 El presidenteBill drillI would like to be able to practice these pretty regular. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKnoch Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Increase grip pressure especially with offhand to increase splits and just watch your sights. Force yourself to not shoot that second shot until the front sight settles back in the notch. Bill drill is great for this. Are you running shots on a timer? What are your splits?Sent from my XT1635-01 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johrichal Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 Havent got a timer yet im using an app on my phone and to keep accuracy with my 2nd shot im at or just above 1sec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johrichal Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 And ive tried increasing pressure with my offhand but it makes it hard to hold steady... I think that part is just practice and conditioning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uewpew Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 good drills (and skill set): Live Fire: group shooting (sight focus, trigger control, shot calling) 7yd Bill Drill (grip) 15yd+ Bill Drill (grip & sight tracking) Blake Drill (target transition) 4 Aces (reloads) Dry Fire: White wall (sight focus, trigger control) Hopkins Drill (transitions) IMO you didn't provide enough information to provide any useful technique tips...so my advice is: Before going out and practicing drills...watch YouTube videos, buy books on the subject, talk to local shooters about technique, ask local guys to critique your methods. Practicing "bad" techniques is not going to help you in the long term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onepocket Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Dot drill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johrichal Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 Thanks for the advice ewuwpew. What other info should I have included? To clarify Im not new to shooting at all ive been shooting since I was old enough to hold a gun til this point it has just been more based on hunting and plinking which ive never seen the need to practice fast follow up shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uewpew Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 more information: target distance, caliber, picture of your grip & stance. I too shot for fun & hunting for many years before entering into USPSA...i developed quite a few not so good habits that i had to break in order to gain speed. weak grip, poor stance, flinching, shifting eye focus, poor trigger reset, waiting for "perfect" sight picture instead of "acceptable" sight picture, etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johrichal Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 Ok target distance was somewhere around 30 ft im shooting 9mm 147gr coated lead over 3.0grs of TG at 1.140" oal. Out of a cz75 sp-01. I have watched videos on grip and stance the stance I feel Im pretty good with. The grip im still working on I love the feel of the sp-01 rubber grips but they almost feel like they are too small for me I dont feel as though the palm of my off hand has enough room to really get pressure on it which doesnt make sense to me because they are pretty beefy grips and ive never noticed a problem with my grip on my other guns although I havent really shot much else since learning a proper grip. I dont have pictures but will try to get some next time I shoot. Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMJack Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 I realize this is an old thread, but one thing I've found really helped my competitive shooting is lots of dry fire / sight pictures. I've got older eyes (and older body!) and when I first started competing would 'lose' my sight picture during a stage, I suspect due to eye fatigue. Dry firing at home every day transitioning from target to target really strengthened my ability to retain the front sight... If you see everything perfectly this isn't an issue, but for me it made a huge difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcalvert Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 I like drills that use partial targets mixed in and concentrate on making tight shots after an easy wide open target. Shifting gears is a good skill set to develop. Also like to drill on standards with long shots using strong and week hands include some gun manipulation skills here. Reloads, transfers etc. dcalvert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhall Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 As a new shooter, I'd guess that you need to improve all of your skills. Remember that the best way to improve a skill is to break it down to the smallest part and refine that very simple action. Once you do that you can add it to another skill you have refined in the same way. The result will be a complete movement/skill that is completely subconscious. You our can do this with virtually every component of a stage or match. If you have competed in matches, you can take any of the difficulties from your most recent match and practice them until they go from weakness to strength. Suggestions on specific drills would be: Reloads Trandition drills (preferably 2 shots max) Bill Drills Movement, into positions with gun in firing position, firing as soon as sight picture is acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Although technically not a "drill," my advice would be to learn what it means to call every shot on every target at any distance. Or in other words, to know - at the instant the shot fired, whether or not it hit the target. (The A box or whatever the target was.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MemphisMechanic Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 On 4/18/2017 at 6:06 PM, Johrichal said: I went out and tried shooting double shots at multiple targets yesterday and the results were pretty bad. First truth of USPSA: no one you're watching shoots double taps or pairs or whatever you want to call it. Not past very close distances, anyway. Theyre aiming every shot. In time, you'll learn to fire 4 sighted shots a second at a 7 yard target. Until then, shoot the one shot per second that you can actually aim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowdyb Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 If I had to pick one single thing it'd be the El Pres and variations. Or the old IDPA classifier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B585 Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 6 hours ago, MemphisMechanic said: First truth of USPSA: no one you're watching shoots double taps or pairs or whatever you want to call it. Not past very close distances, anyway. Theyre aiming every shot. In time, you'll learn to fire 4 sighted shots a second at a 7 yard target. Until then, shoot the one shot per second that you can actually aim. This^^^^. I am almost 1 year into shooting USPSA. In the beginning, I was told to shoot accurately and don't worry about time. My first event I got the most points on 2 or 3 stages but I was ssslllooowww so I didn't place well. After confirming that I needed to work on speed, I started shooting faster...which quickly lead to faster than I could see the sights....my times improved, but I dropped a lot more points...I did this for several matches blaming my mistakes on being new. Finally, after 5 or 6 matches, I wasn't improving that much. I then realized the error of my ways and start trying to correct bad habits. It took a lot longer for me to get back to being consistent and improving than if I would have just focused on making seeing what I needed to see from the beginning. Don't make the same mistakes as me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MemphisMechanic Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 (edited) 9 hours ago, B585 said: After confirming that I needed to work on speed, I started shooting faster...which quickly lead to faster than I could see the sights.... That brings us to point #2: Shooting a few tenths too slow wasn't your problem as a novice, just like it wasn't mine. It's the multiple extra seconds you take to reload, draw, and especially move from point A to point B. To bring your stage times up as a newbie, shoot your sights with patience on cruise control... then absolutely downshift and floor it like a panicked primate until you're at the next position... and ease back off the throttle as the shooting resumes. Slowfastslow. Not fastslowfast. Edited August 1, 2017 by MemphisMechanic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highhope Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Dot drill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stick Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Dot torture dot-torture-target.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quliming Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 accuracy is number one most important thing. Make sure you can hit stuff first. Then maybe try some bill drill . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatboywoody Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Group shooting & bill drills at various distances. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravster Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 Increase grip pressure. What are your splits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highhope Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 El presidente and Bill drill are all good too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nalle2491 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 BILL DRILLS!!! Time after Time after Time!!! Make sure and use a timer as much as possible with the PAR timer on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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