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Hey folks! What drills or techniques do you recommend to help reinforce safe gun handling with less experienced shooters? Some I've used include:
- Picking up the gun from a table and bringing it to a low-ready or Sul position. Drill is successful when the user ends with the weapon in a proper grip with the dominant hand (high on the beaver tail for pistol grips), weapon is pointed in a safe direction, and trigger finger is indexed.
- Malfunction clearing with a pistol. With an empty chamber and no magazine inserted, shooter assumes a firing stance, takes aim at a target, and presses the trigger. When the firing pin strikes the empty chamber, the shooter indexes, taps the bottom of the pistol grip where the magazine would normally be to simulate seating, racks the slide, reacquires target, and when ready squeezes the trigger again. Drill is successful when the shooter is able to manipulate the firearm while keeping the muzzle pointed in the direction of the target and properly indexed until actively firing.
Note: Can also be performed with a magazine w/ follower & spring removed, or with a magazine designed for dry fire.
Will post more, but starting with these.
- Picking up the gun from a table and bringing it to a low-ready or Sul position. Drill is successful when the user ends with the weapon in a proper grip with the dominant hand (high on the beaver tail for pistol grips), weapon is pointed in a safe direction, and trigger finger is indexed.
- Malfunction clearing with a pistol. With an empty chamber and no magazine inserted, shooter assumes a firing stance, takes aim at a target, and presses the trigger. When the firing pin strikes the empty chamber, the shooter indexes, taps the bottom of the pistol grip where the magazine would normally be to simulate seating, racks the slide, reacquires target, and when ready squeezes the trigger again. Drill is successful when the shooter is able to manipulate the firearm while keeping the muzzle pointed in the direction of the target and properly indexed until actively firing.
Note: Can also be performed with a magazine w/ follower & spring removed, or with a magazine designed for dry fire.
Will post more, but starting with these.