Handgun skill, practice, drills, and evaluations posts

[43.6N]

Here’s a fun comparison.
I met up with some guys to shoot today.
AR15 DMR type training out to 700.

When it was done they wanted to try their guns on the figure 5 drill.

3 very competent shooters had a cold run between 30-35 seconds.

Me having the benefit of this being my primary handgun drill ran it sub 30 cold with my 12.5” AR.
Height over bore definitely got me though on the accuracy.

I finished with a shotgun run for fun. 8 in the gun with a pocket reload. Awesome, devistating to the target, but also comparably slow. They were all supposed to be buckshot, but I think at least one bird shell made its way into the tube. Maybe some slugs too.

But the major takeaway was that shooting is shooting. That moving efficiently with a gun and Making hits at speed absolutely translates from handguns to carbines.

 

[PuceLemming62]

Inspired by discussion in the “Most reliable and Shootable pistols” thread, let’s discuss some basic pistol drills here.

A majority of handgun training material is focused on police or military use. So there is more emphasis on transitioning to other weapons, reloads, and other things that likely don’t apply to the average hunter. Making the assumption that most of us as hunters carry one handgun, with one magazine, and the other weapons on us may not be suitable for defense (bow, muzzleloader, etc.). So, I asked Form about a bear defense training or assessment drill.

Form’ suggested drill.

Grab your bear defense gun, and a couple loaded mags.

First, slow fire 10 rounds into NRA B8 at 25 yards for score. Form didn’t suggest a minimum, but I think a 90 is a reasonable goal.

Then:

“…3 of the same targets stacked in distance- one at 3.5 yards, one at 7, one at 15 yards. Start in the 15 yard target, shoot three rounds, then 3 at 7 yards, and 3 at 3.5 yards. All using a shot timer and all rounds must be in the 8 ring.”

If you shoot the drill post scores/times, and pics.
More to follow when I make it out to the range.

Thanks for the drills!

 

[ckt3]

But the major takeaway was that shooting is shooting. That moving efficiently with a gun and Making hits at speed absolutely translates from handguns to carbines.

Neat results and sounds like a great day. This quoted part reminds me of hearing a similar message from some well known shooters on YouTube (I forget which unit but they were former sf, delta, or devgru) but the message was if you can shoot a pistol well, you can pretty quickly shoot a carbine well too, as the pistol is more challenging to master and much of the skills/fundamentals carry over.