drills for combat shooting

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Im looking for some things i can do at the range to practice combat style shooting.
at the range i go to any thing safe goes, and quite often im the only one there when im there.
there is an area that used to be used for a trap range, so there is an open safe space i could use.
i would like to get into combat shooting like IDPA or IPSC, but there is none of that here, and i dont have a vehicle to drive 1.5 or 3 hours to the nearest range that might.
so im looking for things i can do here to here to improve my combat shooting skills (right now they are zero)

any advice is welcome.

thanks,
Joe
 
I have seen a few books on Amazon.com that looked interesting for stuff.

Practice drawing from your holster. Quick and smooth motion. Site picture. Watch the position of your weak hand when you draw so you don't shoot yourself. When moving, keep your finger off the trigger. Practice mag changes. Double taps. Some longer range shots. Draw and fire at close range. Weak handed shooting. Single strong hand shooting.
 
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What I would suggest is that first you go and take a Black Badge Course. This will teach you the basics, stance grip, site picture. If you don’t you could be just practising bad habits. Once you have that down there are a number of different drills that you can do. Here is one that I use.

1. One target, 10 yards. Draw and fire one round. Repeat ten times.
2. One target, 10 yards. Draw and fire two rounds. Repeat Ten times.
3. 3 targets, one meter spacing, 10 yards. Draw and fire two rounds into each target. Six rounds in total. Repeat ten times.
4. 3 targets, one meter spacing, 10 yards. Draw and fire two rounds into each target, reload and repeat, reload and repeat. 18 rounds in total. Repeat the drill ten times.
5. 3 targets, one meter spacing, 10 yards. Draw and fire two rounds into one end target, reload, two rounds into the middle target, reload and two rounds into the last target. Total 6 rounds. Repeat 10 times.
6. One Standard IPSC Metric target or one standard IPSC Classic target and a 6 to 8 inch gong, 10 yards. Draw and fire 10 rounds into the lower A zone and one round into the b zone if using a metric target. If using a classic target then 10 rounds into the A zone and one round on the gong. Works best if the gong is above the target or right beside it as the same height. Repeat till out of ammo or daylight.

Record your times, splits and target to target acquisition times for each string with a timer. Chart your progress. Start looking for where you can save big amounts of time, i.e. reloads. Then work on those.
 
The Hippie said:
i would like to get into combat shooting like IDPA or IPSC,
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hey Joe,

I'm sure you already know this, but it needs to be said - IPSC might have, originally, grown out of a desire to have 'combat shooting' type thinggie, but it has grown into something which is nothing more than a video game, as far as its "practicality." There is nothing practical about ipsc - we just get to pl ay with equipment which is similar to that used by the police, and only if you shoot in Production (and even that is now growing out of control).
 
I like to practice target transitions.

Set up 2 targets side by side at 15 yards, and then 10 yards to the right of those, set up another 2 targets, so you're basically in a big triangle.

I practice draw on one set, 2 rounds on each target (8 rounds total).
Then practice draw on the other set, 2 rounds each (8 rounds total).

Good for practicing transitions and cadence.
 
as much as we dislike the classifier stages, some of them are still good drills. Pick a selection that hit all the skills, strong hand, weak hand, barricades, off balance and set them up. In the absence of a local IPSC group, it gives new people a baseline for stage construction and technique. Classifiers can be downloaded from www.ipsc.org.
 
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