USPSA/Practical Drills for square ranges

[G-Lo246]

Hello all,

 

Wanted to ask what are some great drills to do at a square range. I can shoot rapid fire but cannot draw or move. How does one practice distance changes with only one target?

 

Thanks!

[ColoradoNick]

1 hour ago, G-Lo246 said:

Hello all,

 

Wanted to ask what are some great drills to do at a square range. I can shoot rapid fire but cannot draw or move. How does one practice distance changes with only one target?

 

Thanks!

Print out some scale-able targets 

[IVC]

Draws and movement, luckily, are something that you would mostly train in dry fire anyways. Sure you need to confirm your dry fire training, but that's something you can do from time to time. If you have only one target at your live range you're somewhat limited but you can still make up your own drills. The key is to understand what you're trying to train, then find a setup and design drills that work for you.

 

For example, if you're working on transitions, the goal is to look at the new target, present the gun, fire when you get the acceptable sight picture. You can do this by starting with gun pointed downrange but off target. If you want to do "back and forth" transitions, you'd have to work within the cone of fire that is available to you, but you'd generally have two (or more) aiming dots on the target, then move between them. Just make sure you account for potential misses so you don't damage anything when you push it hard. 

 

For different distances all you need is different size targets at the same distance. If you have only one target, you'd have to paste on it smaller targets, then do the transition drill above by shooting at the different areas of your target. If you pay attention to the different quality of the acceptable sight picture for different sizes of the target, you're training distance transitions. In fact, this is what you do in dry fire and where you'll train most of it, while using live fire to confirm you're doing it right. 

[Runswithwood1]

Yeah that kinda sucks when you're stuck at an indoor range, when outdoor shooting season is done I still dryfire and hit up the local idpa indoor matches to keep me in shape for uspsa