EricW Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 One of my favorite dryfire drills is the 1 and 1 drill: Draw, shoot 1, reload, shoot 1. Target is between 7 and 10 yards away. I really struggled with this last year as I was having mucho trouble putting the pieces together. As of today, when I'm not rushing, I can breeze in under 2.2, par is about 2.1 to 2.15. I can hit a string of sub 2's occasionally, but eventually rushing gets the better of me and mags start flying into low earth orbit. I think last summer I was somewhere around a 2.75 or some ungodly huge number. No clue about live fire yet. I'll hit the gravel pit tomorrow and see what I come up with. What I really like about this particular drill is all the different stuff you have to do in a relatively short while. You really get a sense of time management. Adding .1s to your par time feels just like mammon from heaven. You're feeling like, "man, what do I do with all this extra time?" It's a silly, little drill. And I certainly didn't invent anything new, but I'm amazed at how much I'm learning from it. It's also a great diagnostic drill when you're getting balled up on the reload doing El Prez's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Stoeger Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 The best part is you do lots of gunhandling and only have to use up 2 rounds! TT posted a drill like this on his forum. However, you draw, transfer to weak hand, shoot, reload (you transfer back to strong hand) and then fire another Weak hand shot. You cant help but learn.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Di Vita Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 Great drill. Fun one to see what you can blaze on it....I hit a PB a few weeks ago I wasn't sure was even possible. When I do this I just usually try to keep it sub 2 with both shots on the head at 7 yards. Great drill for upping consistency in your draw and reloads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopalong Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 Was goofing off yesterday Live fire had a few loaded rounds left and for some reason tried this very drill except 2 pepper poppers at 12 yds. Draw .95 reload 1.95 both poppers down. The only time I did it. Now I know some of you are saying 1.95 that's slow..... but I was shooting the wheel gun and Jerry says anything 2 or better is fast so I'll take it 3 days before Nats. !!! Good drill, most likely need to do it more often. Hop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 That is a great drill - I used to do it often. To really polish up your technique - do it at 15 yds. (The ultimate distance. ) be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sterling White Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 Eric, I like the idea but am not convinced that you should only shoot one round and not shoot two shots each time. My reasoning - in most situations we fire two rounds because the majority of the targets are paper. This could place a heavier emphasis on one shot, sticking the reload, and the second shot without any follow through. I can understand it if your practicing for the prez or some other cof requiring only one per. Just thoughts..... sw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted July 14, 2005 Author Share Posted July 14, 2005 gmw, I appreciate the comment, but actually I tend to disagree. I've looked at my ammunition expenditures and I really question the value of multiple shots on every, single drill you do. I do the occasionall Bill Drill to make sure I'm timed to the gun, but after two or three, all it's really doing is measuring my draw speed. I have zero motivation to expend a small mountain of lead to cut a few hundreths off a .15 to .18 split. When I go to the range, I'm cutting the number of rounds I shoot and paying more attention to the sight pictures I see when I pull the trigger. Shooting less ammo let's me run more drills and to me that's way more important than ingraining the "double-tap." Any notion of a "double-tap" disappeared from my repertoire years ago. I shoot two, distinct shots per target, nothing more, nothing less. I'll bet my match splits are never faster than .20's and average 0.25s. The only difference between the second shot on a target and the first is that my front sight isn't arcing up and across the berm to the second target. Who knows, I could be totally wrong, but for me today, less is more. Just my $.02... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtypool40 Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 hell I like this drill because my splits are so sloooow, I can't compete on the double tap or bill drill times. Not that I blaze ont his, but I get sub 2.0 regularly. Not sub 2.0 head shots like Jake, but some of us are human. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo radley Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 hell I like this drill because my splits are so sloooow, I can't compete on the double tap or bill drill times. Not that I blaze ont his, but I get sub 2.0 regularly. Not sub 2.0 head shots like Jake, but some of us are human. What a great drill -- thx, DP for digging this back up. I've been playing with it a bit tonight, just dry-firing. 3.5 is no problem; 3.0 is iffy. One thing I notice, is I get screwed up on the 2nd and 3rd mags, because my hand shoots right for the No.1 mag position, then has to go searching.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoShooter Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Was goofing off yesterday Live fire had a few loaded rounds left and for some reason tried this very drill except 2 pepper poppers at 12 yds.Draw .95 reload 1.95 both poppers down. The only time I did it. Now I know some of you are saying 1.95 that's slow..... but I was shooting the wheel gun and Jerry says anything 2 or better is fast so I'll take it 3 days before Nats. !!! Good drill, most likely need to do it more often. Hop Wow ! that is one fast reload with a weel gun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Gaines Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 I was practicing this drill about a month ago, but was shooting 2 shots, reload, and shoot one into the next target at 25 yards Basically I was recording my draw time, my split time and my reload time, with a transition shot on the reload with 3 shots, I just thought it was more effective way of training since like a poster said earlier we typically put 2 into paper, the third shot was designed to get my time on the reload and practice moving my eyes to the next target. I did it more just to record the times and to know what my abilities were. to see if they have improved or deminshed. Do it right to left, left to right, far, close etc. Then fire 2 shots at both targets, with a reload in between, see if your split time changes between the 2 targets. I'm all about saving money and if I can get more information with less rounds, I am all for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtypool40 Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 I use a VP at different distances for that. I check consistency of splits and transitions, draw and load. This thread is just about smoke and hope on a close draw and load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 I love the draw 1 reload 1 drill. It's cheap and lets you really work the gun. I had one of my few glory moments with this baby shooting it in 1.95 with the wheelgun (I was alone, of course...Murphy's Law ) A great drill to learn to relax and just be focussed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Di Vita Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 I enjoy doing this as a speed drill. I've managed to get it down pretty low in live fire but don't do it as much anymore. Normally this is a dry fire drill for me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Jake what was your fastest run on this one? Just curious, cause I know you're a friggin' speed demon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Di Vita Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Fastest run I got in live fire was 1.31. .67 draw, .64 reload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ankeny Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Smokin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Fastest run I got in live fire was 1.31..67 draw, .64 reload. Faster than my average reload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eerw Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Fastest run I got in live fire was 1.31. .67 draw, .64 reload. Faster than my average reload. That's my first shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 .. back to practicing for me!!!! good time jake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Jake, that's what I'm talking about. Awesome man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coog Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 WOW! Speed demon. Way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caspian38 Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Fastest run I got in live fire was 1.31..67 draw, .64 reload. OK are we talking HEAD SHOTS STILL! I'm sure you probably are ... I shot this today at 5 yards and I couldn't get even close ! 1.66 was as low as I go and that was an A/B I got one faster but it was only a little faster and I never saw the dot (cheating) .72 draw .94 reload. I noticed that if my draw slows down my reload speeds up ... it was weird I did the drill 25 times or so ... and I had a few smokin reloads(for me ) .72-79 but then my draw would be .95-1.05 I also noticed that my big sticks are faster to reload (reliably) maybe more to grab ? they are heavier(loaded) though so my time from the pouch to the gun Seems slower... most of my great reloads happened with 10 rnds or so in a big stick. I'll try it at 7 later ... as I find that practicing my draw closer keeps it fast at the further distances .... but if I practice at distance I get locked into doing a slow draw even when i'm practicaly touching the target. mental thing thanks ERICW for the DRILL ...I liked it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaJoe Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 Ok the fastest I could rip this one off keeping them both in the A zone was 2.28. 1.02 draw. Sounds pretty crappy in comparison to others' scores. It's all good. JOe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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