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Here it is - good luck with it.

Set up the drill, the same as before. But this time, instead of shooting for score - shoot the drill with a visual goal.

You don’t care about your score, draw speed, or anything - but the visual goal.

Before shooting, dry fire the drill with the visual goal in mind: The goal is to remember seeing the outline of the A-box of each upcoming target BEFORE you see your sights appear in the A-box. 

(Since targets #2 and #3 are not very far apart, you will really have to snap your eyes to the next A-box in order to actually see it before your sights are there. It’s easy, on these types of targets, to just kind of lazily “bring the gun along” to each target, instead of driving it there with your eyes.)

Back to dry firing. You’re in your start position and you’re looking right at the first A-box. Draw (you can use a buzzer if you want) and be aware of seeing your sights or “the top of the gun” as they come into the A-box. As soon as you’ve seen that - find the next target’s A-box! Right after your eyes lock onto it, you should then see your sights as they come into it. Again, as soon as you see that - find the next target’s A-box. As soon as you see your sights come into the A-box - find target #1’s A-box! 

For every target - see the A-box, then the sights in it. If you ever remember that you didn’t see that, or if you do remember seeing your sights AND the A-box at the same time - you didn’t do it properly. 

For targets #2 and #3, if you weren’t able to clearly see the A-box BEFORE your sights got to it - you should at least be able so see “like that” for target #1. (Because of the wider transition.) 

Keep dry firing the sequence until you clearly know “how it feels to see the target BEFORE the sights” - for each target in the 9-shot string. 

Now, with the visual goal in mind at all times, load up and shoot the string several times. For each string, note not only your score (+.5 second for every shot outside the A-box), but remember how it felt to see each target in the string. e.g., See the targets “outside” of the sights.

It might also “feel easier” to shoot the drill with a visual goal instead a score goal.

Deliberately starting and finishing one thing at time is a good way to do something. Seeing the A-box first is “starting,” and seeing your sights arrive in the A-box is “finishing.” A-box, sights; A-box, sights; A-box, sights; over and over…

Stick with it,

Brian

Transition Drill Part 1:

Set up 3 USPSA/IPSC targets at 10 yards, about a yard a apart, edge to edge. You’ll score the string as “Time Plus.” On the buzzer draw and shoot one shot at each target - left to right, then repeat left to right, then repeat again left to right - for a total of 9 shots for the string. Check your time, add .5 second for each “non-A,” and note your score. You don’t really care about your score that much, just remember it for later. Shoot a 6 - 10 strings, to establish an average score. While you’re establishing your average - you’re just shooting like you normally would. Don’t try any new tricks or anything at all. In the end just know your average score for the drill.

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