Accommodating injuries in training/practice

[thekingoftroy]

It's good to practice support hand. Often times the dominant hand will suffer an injury during a gun fight and knowing how to operate your gun with the other hand can be a life saving skill. One you don't want to learn in the moment.

 

[bradsteen]

Well, that was a humbling experience...

Today's range trip was entirely one-handed shooting with the support hand at defensive distance (~25 feet). I ran the LCP Max, Security 380, Steyr M9, and PSA Dagger full-size with red dot. For each I fired 30rds of slow single shots, focusing on mechanics and and accuracy, and 20rds of controlled pairs, focusing on presentation and speed. I ran all the singles together for 380 to get 60rds of mechanics focus before moving to pairs, and the same with 9mm. I did several reps of presentation without firing before firing each gun, and during each gun's usage. Some things I noticed:

• Fatigue set in a lot quicker than I expected
• Presentation one-handed from the support side is something I've rarely practiced, so those reps before and during firing really helped keep it more consistent than it would have been otherwise.
• Manipulating the weapons was a little awkward - ended up loading mags with my dominant hand, then doing everything else with the support hand.
• Maintaining sight alignment was much more difficult and took concerted effort to control wavering.
• Double taps resulted in a significant decrease in accuracy.
• The weird triangle front sight on the M9 took a few shots to get used to. After that it helped with accuracy for the first few shots of each mag, but as presentation fatigue set in it got progressively harder to reacquire.
• The LCP Max was the most difficult to shoot. No shocker there, as it's hard enough running it normally. But one-handed it was difficult to be accurate with singles, and pairs were terrible.
• The red dot is an absolute game changer. I was able to maintain a consistently high degree of accuracy in spite of using it last (when I was the most fatigued). Acquiring the dot took some getting used to, but it really impressed the heck out of me.
• When I went through training and quals for work (...Jeez, was that really 20 years ago?!? Damn...) they taught us to cant the pistol at a 45 degree angle when shooting one-handed. That worked well enough for the larger guns, but I found with the LCP Max I had to keep it vertical to maintain what little accuracy I could manage. Not sure why that was.
• Back to the red dot... I found that by watching the dot's movement pattern I could quickly identify what parts of my trigger press needed more work. It was fascinating to see the dot jiggle more initially during the press, then stabilize and go almost still right before the break. Gonna dig into that a lot more at my next range session.

If you ever start to think you're an amazing shot, just give this a thing try and you'll take yourself down a peg or two!

Also... Apologies for all the edits, I fat-fingered the submit button before I was done writing the post, so playing catch-up!

 

[titsonritz]

Well, that was a humbling experience...

Today's range trip was entirely one-handed shooting with the support hand at defensive distance (~25 feet). I ran the LCP Max, Security 380, Steyr M9, and PSA Dagger full-size with red dot. For each I fired 30rds of slow single shots, focusing on mechanics and and accuracy, and 20rds of controlled pairs, focusing on presentation and speed. I ran all the singles together for 380 to get 60rds of mechanics focus before moving to pairs, and the same with 9mm. I did several reps of presentation without firing before firing each gun, and during each gun's usage. Some things I noticed:

• Fatigue set in a lot quicker than I expected
• Presentation one-handed from the support side is something I've rarely practiced, so those reps before and during firing really helped keep it more consistent than it would have been otherwise.
• Manipulating the weapons was a little awkward - ended up loading mags with my dominant hand, then doing everything else with the support hand.
• Maintaining sight alignment was much more difficult and took concerted effort to control wavering.
• Double taps resulted in a significant decrease in accuracy.
• The weird triangle front sight on the M9 took a few shots to get used to. After that it helped with accuracy for the first few shots of each mag, but as presentation fatigue set in it got progressively harder to reacquire.
• The LCP Max was the most difficult to shoot. No shocker there, as it's hard enough running it normally. But one-handed it was difficult to be accurate with singles, and pairs were terrible.
• The red dot is an absolute game changer. I was able to maintain a consistently high degree of accuracy in spite of using it last (when I was the most fatigued). Acquiring the dot took some getting used to, but it really impressed the heck out of me.
• When I went through training and quals for work (...Jeez, was that really 20 years ago?!? Damn...) they taught us to cant the pistol at a 45 degree angle when shooting one-handed. That worked well enough for the larger guns, but I found with the LCP Max I had to keep it vertical to maintain what little accuracy I could manage. Not sure why that was.
• Back to the red dot... I found that by watching the dot's movement pattern I could quickly identify what parts of my trigger press needed more work. It was fascinating to see the dot jiggle more initially during the press, then stabilize and go almost still right before the break. Gonna dig into that a lot more at my next range session.

If you ever start to think you're an amazing shot, just give this a thing try and you'll take yourself down a peg or two!

Also... Apologies for all the edits, I fat-fingered the submit button before I was done writing the post, so playing catch-up!

If you don't have some pick some of these up practice at home manipulation, drills clearance drills, one-handed, reloads, etc.,

https://www.amazon.com/Action-Pro-Trainer-Cartridge-Ammunition/dp/B004KZ357G/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=3N3I2JZNL1TDU&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.C_KKmhD-hJO31QbeONBDrK0gcGpZde6wLZloTLg8xYNNGRd3s8uHttxGYpVH33689-lgaGC6ZJRpQOwpNI3Qm61I-XrQRCGFhBwD3N5J25Elh-B8HNTLs0eTmRC-wEKek2rBHZhM-taAkG1TOQpTm8OWlp0RMG5hvCpLt2m3cZ7VJxi7xV_yA37QV-kwSZeR-krwOKtZvclY9dWWFenCSQ.3jTvPBswuNr9iqWAwM9t8P9scVVVvNi5uDRSOMLxiiA&dib_tag=se&keywords=dummy+9mm+ammo&qid=1769311225&sprefix=dummy+9mm+ammo,miscellaneous,152&sr=8-4&tag=link-nwfa-20]

Stuff like this…

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=io6qqiDqz4g

 

[JDubDub]

High-sided myself during a motorcycle race and broke 5 bones in my strong-side wrist and hand (and tore my right MCL just for fun). Spent 13 weeks in various casts and with doctor's orders to do near zero exercise. In other words, completely bored out of my mind. Ended up at the range, shooting 1 handed 2 or 3 times a week. Challenging to say the least, but great for my overall shooting skills. Even got lucky and won a bowling pin match shooting a 627 with full power .357 loads.

 

[roseburger]

I had to poop the other day, but I worked through it.

 

[Nosferatu]

I had to poop the other day, but I worked through it.

Those Lamaze classes finally paid off, eh?

 

[Capn Jack]

Today I had to follow my wife through Safeway with a cramp in my foot.

I'm going to bed early tonight and try to get over the truma.