If you want a drill that will keep you aware and keep sending you to random targets try the Casino Drill.
This drill comes from John Hearne. He has said:
“A lot of times when we go to shooting classes, I’m just performing a contrived drill… I know before the drill even starts exactly what I can do. I can prepare in my head exactly what I need to deliver and it’s much easier to access that motor program and just deliver. In the real world, I don’t know what motor program I’m going to need to deliver until the last possible moment…”
The Original Casino Drill
To shoot a proper Casino Drill, you need a specific target that’s sold by Action Target. It’s called the Discretionary Command Training Target Version 2. There are actually three variants of that target: 2A, 2B, and a 2C. If you don’t want to buy a special target just for this drill, Lucky Gunner has a free printable target you can use. It won’t technically be a Casino Drill, but it’s the same basic idea.
The “official” target has six shapes randomly numbered 1-6. The order is different depending on which variant of the target you have. The distance for this drill is five yards. Start with your pistol in the holster loaded with seven rounds only. You will also need two spare magazines loaded with seven rounds each.
At the signal, draw and fire one round on shape number 1, two rounds on 2, three on 3 and so on until you have six rounds on 6. Reload as needed. It’s called the Casino Drill because you have 21 rounds and the par time is 21 seconds. Add a one second penalty for every missed shot, or any rounds fired out of sequence or at the wrong target.
The two reloads are in there, not because emergency reloading is a super important skill for the real world. The reloads are to mess with your head. They’re there to force you to stop counting your shots and shift your attention to the gun, without forgetting which target you were shooting and how many rounds you have left to fire on it.
I just shot this target yesterday and I can say, it’s challenging. I would suggest using all three targets and mix them up. Don’t shoot the drill so often that you have all the targets memorized. You can make a 4th or 5th target if the 3 get too memorized. I love the distraction of running dry and reloading. I almost had a flashback from combat when I ran dry then and had to get more magazines from a brother. That was not a good feeling and I don’t like reliving it. But it did distract me from counting shots.
I like this drill and will add it to my workout. This has some real training value.
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