Freestyle to SHO or WHO Drill

[GunBugBit]

This seems obvious and I'm sure many of you already do this, but I haven't seen it in the dry fire books I own.

 

Many of us already do drills where we draw into strong-hand-unsupported or weak-hand-unsupported (strong-hand-only (SHO) or weak-hand-only (WHO), if you prefer) or where we switch from freestyle to SHO or WHO, but what about switching from freestyle to SHO or WHO without first drawing or performing a reload?

 

So the drill is simply:

 

1. Draw into freestyle (normal two-handed) grip and fire two shots
2. Switch to either SHO or WHO
3. Fire two more shots

[GunBugBit]

A variation of this is to just do the index-only version.  That's with no trigger presses.  This focuses on switching grips -- freestyle to SHO, freestyle to WHO.

[DKorn]

How often would you use this in a match? Are there any classifiers that require this skill?

[RAP]

On 2/12/2018 at 10:15 AM, GunBugBit said:

This seems obvious and I'm sure many of you already do this, but I haven't seen it in the dry fire books I own.

 

Many of us already do drills where we draw into strong-hand-unsupported or weak-hand-unsupported (strong-hand-only (SHO) or weak-hand-only (WHO), if you prefer) or where we switch from freestyle to SHO or WHO, but what about switching from freestyle to SHO or WHO without first drawing or performing a reload?

 

So the drill is simply:

 

1. Draw into freestyle (normal two-handed) grip and fire two shots
2. Switch to either SHO or WHO
3. Fire two more shots

 

I set up classifier CM 03-11 El Strong Hand & Weak Pres as part of my dry fire routine. It allows me to work on my reloads and strong hand only and weak hand only shooting. You have 2 strings of fire. 1st string draw and engage 3 targets freestyle perform mandatory reload and engage 3 targets with strong hand only. String 2 you draw and engage 3 targets freestyle perform mandatory reload and engage 3 targets weak hand only. Practicing this classifier as part of my routine dry fire drills has helped me in my reloads and SHO & WHO shooting. 

[Sliv2]

 

[GunBugBit]

My best match of any kind came after I had been doing a lot of WHO dry fire.  The match didn't contain any WHO in the stages.  That's probably not the sole reason I had a good match but it sure didn't hurt.

[GunBugBit]

18 hours ago, RAP said:

 

I set up classifier CM 03-11 El Strong Hand & Weak Pres as part of my dry fire routine. It allows me to work on my reloads and strong hand only and weak hand only shooting. You have 2 strings of fire. 1st string draw and engage 3 targets freestyle perform mandatory reload and engage 3 targets with strong hand only. String 2 you draw and engage 3 targets freestyle perform mandatory reload and engage 3 targets weak hand only. Practicing this classifier as part of my routine dry fire drills has helped me in my reloads and SHO & WHO shooting. 

This classifier even has a turn'n'draw from surrender (hands on ears or earpro).   Pretty much all of the raw skills in this one.

[RAP]

Yep, plus the targets are partials adding additional difficulty. I think this is a good one to practice because of the various skills required. It's certainly helped me. 

[GunBugBit]

Great choice for a classifier stage to work on, dry fire and/or live fire practice!

 

In the Limited division, a hit factor of 7.0 is needed to be at 100.0%.

 

Assuming 24 shots that are all A's, total time would be 17.1s to be at 100%.  Since most of us will be slower on the second string due to the weak hand portion, this would look something like 7 seconds for string 1 and 10 seconds for string 2.

 

In dry fire the par times should be lower of course.

Edited February 15, 2018 by GunBugBit