Designated target practice

[u/Jumpy-Persimmon5745]

11.6747 HF

[u/johnm]

FWIW, you're doing that 'tactical turtle' thing and so have way too much tension. Check out the posture and the tension related videos below.

Hard to see what you're doing vision focus-wise give the camera angle and that you're doing pretty narrow transitions.

Fundamentals of marksmanship:

• Talking About Grip

• Overcomplicating Grip

• Index Your Gun Properly

• Posture and Structure: Build Stability

• Posture and Tension

• How Tension Ruins Your Shooting & How to Conquer It

• Why Is Tension So Bad?

• Target Focused Shooting With Iron Sights

• Prove You Can Go Target Focused With Iron Sights

• How To Manage Recoil With Your Eyes

• Recoil Management Deep Dive (vision focus) (Hwansik)

• Focus On Visual Confirmation To Level Up (Stoeger)

• Visual Confirmation 1-4 Demonstrations

• Getting the (Visual) Confirmation Right

Marksmanship drills:

• Trigger Control at Speed

• One Shot Return Drill

• Practical Accuracy Drill

• Doubles Drill

• Progressive Return Drill

• "Throttle Control" (Accelerator)

• Multiple Target Engagements (Designated Target)

[u/Jumpy-Persimmon5745 → u/johnm]

Thanks

[u/johnm → u/Jumpy-Persimmon5745]

Here's my generic recommendations on how to help us help you with the videos/images...

Note that we can give you personalized, specific, high-quality advice when we can see both the video of you shooting AND the target so we can match them up to properly calibrate any specific advice we're going to give you.

For fundamentals of marksmanship... How to video yourself:

Set the camera up on your support hand side, even with your trigger guard. Make sure everything from the muzzle to past your wrists are in frame. I.e., we don't need to see your face, etc. if you're worried about sharing publicly.

Record it at a high enough resolution and at a fast enough speed that we can watch it clearly at e.g. half speed.

Warm up with whatever drill(s) you want and then switch to a clean target before filming. This is so you can take a photo of the target after the filming and share that along with the video so we can calibrate how we see you shooting in the video with the target. Bonus is to take a second video doing the same drill on your strong hand side.

You can film whatever drill you want but the default to film is the Doubles Drill. But doing Progressive Return Drill would be okay, too.

Run a few mags worth of the drill and record the last magazine's runs. Then take a photo of the target. Then post the video(s) to e.g. Youtube and post the picture of the target with the link to the video here so we can watch it at various (slower) playback speeds.

[u/Jumpy-Persimmon5745 → u/johnm]

I've actually been working on the tactical turtle stuff. It's really hard to break that bad habit. I can stop doing it in dry fire but when I do live fire, it slowly creeps back.

[u/johnm → u/Jumpy-Persimmon5745]

In dry fire, you're not dealing with the reality/stress of having the explosions going off in front of your face.

Alternate dry reps with your live fire reps at the range. Begin with 2 dry to each live rep. Do this with e.g. One Shot Return, Two Shot Return, and Practical Accuracy to begin with. Once you get good at those then add in the higher pressure of Double Return Drill, Doubles Drill, Progressive Return, and e.g. live Designated Target.

[u/TheInkisBlack]

Good start, how much work have you done on that draw? Draw speed isn't as important in the context of a longer or larger stage, but on such a short array it's dragging your hit factor for sure, and here is appears to eat up nearly 2 seconds. Trigger break exit and urgency will push those wide transition speeds as well.

[u/Jumpy-Persimmon5745 → u/TheInkisBlack]

Yes. I’m just now getting into b class after not giving a shit for 10 years