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shawn1172
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9/11 range day- tried the El Presidente
shawn1172
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I have my own tradition of going shooting on 9/11 so I took a break from football today to run some drills with the 1911 Combat Commander. Thought it a fitting weapon for the day. A couple months ago I read in American Rifleman about practice drills I wanted to try.
First was the "Dot Drill"- at 7 yards from the target, draw from a concealed holster and fire a single shot at a 2" dot. For working on gun presentation, sight alignment and trigger control. Supposed to be done with 3 targets, each with 6 dots. Goal is to hit each dot with a single shot. That turned out to be harder than I thought. I kept trying to go too fast when I should have taken my time to have a smooth draw and accurate shot. Couldn't help trying to go fast and ended up missing a lot. Did this one 48 times.
Then the "El Presidente". I got the details a bit wrong as I was working on memory of something I read a while ago. What you're supposed to do- 3 silhouette targets spaced 5 feet apart. Middle target 3 yards away, one side 5 yards, the other side 7 yards. Draw from a concealed holster and fire 2 shots into each target's kill zone, move lateraly 10 feet to cover, reload, engage targets again with 2 shots each.
I mixed it up a bit and had the middle target at 10 yards, left at 5 yards and right target at 7. Otherwise, it was the same. Except there wasn't any actual cover to use, I just moved 10 feet, reloaded and fired again.
That was fun! And I did better than the dot drill. I did this drill 8 times, 96 rounds. Most of my shots hit the 9 ring, got 9 in the 10 ring, several in the 8 ring and just a few out in the 7. I tried to go as fast as I could while maintaining reasonable accuracy. I was there alone so nobody there to watch my form or time me. But I did time myself on the last one, just checking the second hand on my watch. 22 seconds. Not exactly SWAT team speed but I thought not bad for a beginner. It did feel faster than that. I'd like to get that down to 12 seconds with all hits in the kill zone.
Back to watching football and drinking beer now. For a 9/11, it's been a pretty good day.
First was the "Dot Drill"- at 7 yards from the target, draw from a concealed holster and fire a single shot at a 2" dot. For working on gun presentation, sight alignment and trigger control. Supposed to be done with 3 targets, each with 6 dots. Goal is to hit each dot with a single shot. That turned out to be harder than I thought. I kept trying to go too fast when I should have taken my time to have a smooth draw and accurate shot. Couldn't help trying to go fast and ended up missing a lot. Did this one 48 times.
Then the "El Presidente". I got the details a bit wrong as I was working on memory of something I read a while ago. What you're supposed to do- 3 silhouette targets spaced 5 feet apart. Middle target 3 yards away, one side 5 yards, the other side 7 yards. Draw from a concealed holster and fire 2 shots into each target's kill zone, move lateraly 10 feet to cover, reload, engage targets again with 2 shots each.
I mixed it up a bit and had the middle target at 10 yards, left at 5 yards and right target at 7. Otherwise, it was the same. Except there wasn't any actual cover to use, I just moved 10 feet, reloaded and fired again.
That was fun! And I did better than the dot drill. I did this drill 8 times, 96 rounds. Most of my shots hit the 9 ring, got 9 in the 10 ring, several in the 8 ring and just a few out in the 7. I tried to go as fast as I could while maintaining reasonable accuracy. I was there alone so nobody there to watch my form or time me. But I did time myself on the last one, just checking the second hand on my watch. 22 seconds. Not exactly SWAT team speed but I thought not bad for a beginner. It did feel faster than that. I'd like to get that down to 12 seconds with all hits in the kill zone.
Back to watching football and drinking beer now. For a 9/11, it's been a pretty good day.
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I feel overtime coming on!
Or not... Jets just made a 50 yard field goal. 27 seconds left.
slight thread derail.
Think the record for doing this belongs to Todd Jarret, under 4 seconds with the targets a lot closer, still not too shabby for 12 rounds under those circumstances, best I seen a local guy farther out do is about 6 seconds and change, my best time is just under 10 seconds.