Draw Speed Drill

[daves_not_here]

Try this drill with dry-fire safety measures in place.

Go through draw motions without actually grabbing the gun.

Make sure you register your hand on your gun as if you would draw.

Complete the draw with empty hands.

It should feel effortless to go through the motions without the gun.

Do this five times.

Now try to do a draw with the gun.

I got to a 0.9 second draw from concealment this way. I think it was mostly a mental block.

How did it work for you?

Does anyone know if this has been posted before?

DNH

Edited January 16, 2013 by daves_not_here

[daves_not_here]

Down to 0.8 seconds from concealment.

I've been alternating between the empty hand and with the gun.

It's helping me to relax and be more efficient.

I noticed I really wasn't using my support arm with the presentation.

DNH

[Eyefly]

I like this idea. It's almost like throwing in a dummy round in your magazine to see if you flinch. I will give this a shot today to see how it works.

[kooyahdesigns]

willing to give this a try also. Thanks

[Klemmer]

Sounds like a winner. After your five 'dry' reps, how many times do you perform the complete draw stroke? Is this like 5 dry, 5 complete, lather-rinse-repeat?

[shtr3]

Great idea. Gonna try it and see what happens

[carlosa]

Even better than doing it with empty hands is to just do a few reps slow focusing on economy of effort and what that feels like..

After a few reps crank it up to match speed, while chasing the effortless and smooth feeling of the slow draws..

[JaeOne3345]

Even better than doing it with empty hands is to just do a few reps slow focusing on economy of effort and what that feels like..

After a few reps crank it up to match speed, while chasing the effortless and smooth feeling of the slow draws..