5 Drills to Increase Your Shooting Skills

By

Whether you are a new shooter or have been to multiple competitions, practicing your shooting accuracy and speed is essential to being better. Through simple drills, you can hone or keep your skills sharp. Grab your Bersa 380, a few targets, and a couple of boxes of ammo, and get ready to improve your skills through these simple drills.

The Dot Drill

The dot drill is relatively simple in concept but can be hard to master. It starts with picking a spot on the target to make your aiming point. You can put a dot sticker there as a visual marker. Start in close, and fire a few shots or even an entire mag. The goal is to hit on the dot each time, making every shot go through one hole. This is a great drill to start and end every range session as it can help you build placement consistency over time.

The Zatoichi

Zatoichi is a famous fictional Japanese swordsman who happens to be blind. Lock in your sight picture, close your eyes and fire a single shot. Keep your gun on the target, remove your trigger finger, and then open your eyes. You can see if your sight picture has moved and then assess your shot. Closing your eyes allows you to focus more on your trigger pull and sense of touch, both of which are crucial to becoming a well-rounded shooter. Be sure to open your eyes between every shot. You can do this with either your Glock or your Knights Armament AR 15, but be sure to stay close to the target. At that range, it is not the gun or the ammo but your skills that are put to the test.

The Bill Drill

Created by former IPSC U.S. Team Member Bill Wilson, who led the team to a world championship win, this handgun drill starts at 7 yards. Use an IPSC target and a shot timer. On the signal, draw from your holster and fire six shots. The goal is to get all the shots in the A-zone of the target within two seconds. You can also drop the time limit, which can help you see the elapsed time and time between shots are.

Penny or Cartridge Drill

Ideally, your muzzle should not rise or drop while aiming and shooting. However, many times the act of pulling the trigger will cause the muzzle to rise ever so slightly, causing the bullet to go off course. The penny or cartridge drill can help. Simply place a penny or cartridge on top of your front handgun sight. You will need a good trigger pull technique to dry fire the gun without moving the penny or cartridge.

 The FAST Drill

The Fundamentals, Accuracy, and Speed Test can be done with your 1911 or LWRC rifle and works everything in the name. Start with a magazine with two rounds loaded. Draw your firearm, fire the two shots into a 3 by 5-inch index card, perform a slide lock reload, and fire the final four rounds into an 8-inch paper plate. Par time is 10-plus seconds for a novice, 7 seconds for advanced shooters, and 5 seconds for an expert. With practice over time, you can enhance multiple skills consecutively.

About GunBroker.com

 When you are interested in buying, selling, or browsing user listings for firearms, turn to GunBroker.com for all your needs. The GunBroker.com online marketplace has earned a reputation as one of the most trustworthy platforms for buying and selling guns, parts, accessories, ammunition, and other firearm-related items. Buyers can enjoy the wide variety of listings on GunBroker.com. Sellers trust GunBroker.com because of its easy-to-use selling and auctioning process. Buying, selling, bidding on, and auctioning guns on the platform is streamlined and easy. If you want to ask questions, learn more about, or discuss firearms, the GunBroker.com forum is where you can interact with other gun enthusiasts from around the country. The next time you are looking for a Bersa 380, PTR91, 30 30 ammo, or virtually anything else firearm-related, search the current user listings on GunBroker.com.

 Find the guns and ammo you need to practice your skills through user listings at https://www.gunbroker.com

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Holiday Gift Guide: 6 Distinctive and Worthwhile Guns for That Special Gun Enthusiast

By
Image
It’s the rare fan of firearms who doesn’t appreciate having at least one conversation piece in their collection. That can be a family heirloom, a homemade build, or a favorite shooter. However, a home-run option for a gun people will talk about is gifting your favorite gun enthusiast a high-quality but distinctive firearm. That could be an antique or vintage model, like a Dreyse M1907, or something new and unique, like the Kel Tec KSG . Give them something to talk about with one of the following distinctive gun gifts. 50 Beowulf Dreyse M1907 The Dreyse is a unique and certainly distinctive looking early automatic. Superficially, it looks quite a bit like the first ever mass-produced automatic, the FN 1900, and shares its chambering—32 ACP. However, the Dreyse features several distinct internal differences. Because this antique firearm tends to be overshadowed by the famous FN 1900, you can often find them relatively inexpensively. Despite their usually modest price, they have a reput
Read more

4 Pieces of Gear You Want for the Range

By
Image
When you are headed to the range, there are some pieces of tactical gear you will want to bring with you. They will all help with convenience, allowing you to carry more or keep your firearms close at hand. When you are doing quick transition drills at the range, you will not want to have to toss your DPMS AR 15 in the dirt so that you can draw your Glock from the table. Here is everything you should bring to your next range outing.  A Holster for Your Handgun If you are still keeping all of your guns on a table at the range, you are losing time. You want to keep your guns close to you. For pistols, that means a holster. There are plenty of different types of holsters, from shoulder holsters like in Miami Vice to leg drop holsters used by Han Solo. The most common are belt holsters, whether inside the waistband or outside. Depending on the type of holster, you might need to get one specifically meant for your gun. This means you might not be able to use the same holster f
Read more

How to Fly with Your Firearms

By
Image
Whether you are going hunting with your Beretta A300 Outlander or taking a highly specialized AR 15 to an out-of-state competition, flying with a firearm might seem complex if you have never done it before. However, there are ways you can streamline the process to make it as simple as possible. This means you will not have to arrive at the airport too much earlier than you would for a typical flight. Here are five tips you should know about packing and declaring your firearm for your next flight. Use the Right Kind of Lock First, you will need the right kind of lock. Do not use any standard, TSA-approved lock to keep your firearms safe. Instead, use a heavy-duty lock on your case. Always keep a key on your person, but do not bring extra copies in your checked luggage. Otherwise, if you use a TSA-approved lock or have copies of the key, it is entirely possible that your gun case could be empty when you grab it off the carousel at your destination. What to Do with Ammo Most often, a
Read more