Rob Leatham on accuracy and plate rack
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Excellent videos Eugene.
Thanks for posting
Excellent videos Eugene.
Thanks for posting
Since we don't have luxury to use metal targets at close distances, I've modified first drill to use several inches black circle instead. It is also somewhat in line with Todd Green's FAST drill (though it is designed for Production kind of gun). How fast you can do it without misses? http://pistol-training.com/drills/fast-fundamentals-accuracy-speed-test
The problem is acquiring the target. On a metal target he gets about 1.2..2" splash from each hit, which is clearly visible from 7y. That is not the case for a bullet hit trough paper target.
Damn, why all my misses were on the close targets? :-/
Your rushing the shot. Your moving the pistol to the next target as your pressing the trigger. After wards you ask yourself how you could have missed because you swear you saw a perfect sight picture on that shot. Truth is you did see a perfect sight picture but then you pressed the trigger and moved to the next target, by the time the shot want off the pistol was well away from your aiming piont.
This can be corrected by teaching yourself to not start your target transition till you see the sights lift after pressing the trigger
Unfortunately it is not that simple. I neglected to mention that most of those targets were swingers. Basically every time I hesitated on a static target after shooting activator steel and as a result, haven't had enough time for a second shot on a first swing of the swinger.
I thought you're not supposed to look for holes, just calling your shots and follow through.
BTW I'm trying to rig something out of coroplast to replace steel in our club matches (training) because we cannot have steel. Paper targets are fine but having some practice with reactive targets would help to calm down in a real match.
Paper plates are actually pretty useful for ranges where no access to steel is permitted. You can set them up like a plate rack or use any other sort of presentation. The good thing about them is they force you to follow through on the sights and call your shots a little better since the temptation to look over the gun to watch the steel fall is removed.
I thought you're not supposed to look for holes, just calling your shots and follow through.
BTW I'm trying to rig something out of coroplast to replace steel in our club matches (training) because we cannot have steel. Paper targets are fine but having some practice with reactive targets would help to calm down in a real match.
Typically yes, but in this case you are using the original point of impact as an aiming point. When I run this drill I just shoot for the center of the IPSC target. Really this drill is more about tracking your sights so whatever method works for you...
That's exactly what I do: staple a row of five 8" plates to a cardboard. It has helped me a lot to hit the real thing and not to wait for visual or audio feedback. I didn't relize how many of my shots were low until I used paper plates.
Still, I'd like to come up with plastic poppers to add some reactive targets to our course. The Newbold mini-popper we have is very unreliable.
