Dot Torture

[bsdubois00]

I'm a fan of this drill - try to do it at least once a session - really helps me with trigger control.

Feel free to post photos of how you did shooting this drill


Start at 3 yards. You have to get all 50 hits to pass. Once you can shoot the whole drill without a single miss, either increase the distance or add time pressure. For instance, try to finish the entire drill in under 5 minutes while maintaining 100% accuracy.


(click on the target to bring up the full-size version which you can then print out)

• Dot 1 – Draw and fire one string of 5 rounds for best group. One hole if possible, total 5 rounds.
• Dot 2 – Draw and fire 1 shot, holster and repeat X4, total 5 rounds.
• Dots 3 & 4 – Draw and fire 1 shot on #3, then 1 shot on #4, holster and repeat X3, total 8 rounds.
• Dot 5 – Draw and fire string of 5 rounds, strong hand only, total 5 rounds.
• Dots 6 & 7 – Draw and fire 2 shots on #6, then 2 on #7, holster, repeat X4, total 16 rounds.
• Dot 8 – From ready or retention, fire five shots, weak hand only, total 5 rounds.
• Dots 9 & 10 – Draw and fire 1 shot on #9, speed reload, fire 1 shot on #10, holster and repeat X3, total 6 rounds.

This is a great marksmanship drill that came from David Blinder at personaldefensetraining.com.

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[Prdator]

If you can Consistently clean this at 3yds your doing good!!!! Once you can do that move back one yard at a time ( keep it clean thought) My best is clean at 7yds and 48 at 8yds.

 

[ef9turbo]

I will have to try this. Seems like a fun and effective drill for sight and trigger control.

 

[Airic]

This drill is good enough by itself, but the time pressure added makes it a great drill for USPSA/IDPA. Use a timer and record your times on each string of the drill. Get 2-3 clean runs then start setting goals for the drill.....like shooting it clean with every string .10 under your average. This one has really helped me out, you could spend a year shooting it at 3 yards and always learn something.

I always tried to shoot it cold

 

[Baddman]

This is awesome! Gonna give this some time i think. Certainly will help me w/ the transition from open to ltd.

 

[Motojunkie]

This is my favorite drill. It tests many different skills and I always come away with lots of stuff to work on.

 

[Airic]

From what I said in the earlier post, I have stopped actually recording times for the strings. I cleaned this at 3 yards and have now moved to 5 yards (at match speed), crazy how much harder this drill gets with 2 extra yards.

 

[jtischauser]

Seems like it would be hard to remember all the different drills unless you stopped the timer to read the instructions in between.

 

[Airic]

Seems like it would be hard to remember all the different drills unless you stopped the timer to read the instructions in between.

I take an extra copy of the sheet with me on the clipboard.

 

[KeithCross]

Wow! I'm a total newbie when it comes to actually shooting (competition or drills) but this sounds like an awesome training drill for any purpose! I'm going to have to try this!

 

[Scott_S]

I'm going to run this tomorrow thanks for posting the PDF

 

[Fleche]

This is rough! Thanks for posting.

 

[The Antichrome]

Crazy hard drill with a DA 1st shot! (Cz Shadow)
I've never come close to shooting this clean.

 

[Scott Hearn]

Crazy hard drill with a DA 1st shot! (Cz Shadow)
I've never come close to shooting this clean.

Heh. Try it with a DA revolver...

 

[Scott_S]

First one and I dropped one right out of #4 got hasty and it cost me. Made it to weakhand only and dropped another. So 48/50 2 down. Next session I'll clean it and then work on faster/further.

 

[wgm2011]

Interesting drill Brandon.

I printed several copies of the dot target and will incorporate this into my practice session.

How do the Open shooters handle the difference in POI at 3 yards? With my gun, the red dot sets 2.10" above the bore and at 3 yards it hits 1.70" low.

Do they for the center of the dot and allow for the difference when evaluating the target? Or do they compensate by aiming 1.7" high?

Thanks.

Bill

 

[Wall]

Interesting drill Brandon.

I printed several copies of the dot target and will incorporate this into my practice session.

How do the Open shooters handle the difference in POI at 3 yards? With my gun, the red dot sets 2.10" above the bore and at 3 yards it hits 1.70" low.

Do they for the center of the dot and allow for the difference when evaluating the target? Or do they compensate by aiming 1.7" high?

Thanks.

Bill

If it were me, my POA would be at 12 o'clock

 

[Airic]

Im out to 7yds on this, the weakhand is where you make or break a clean run.

I've moved on to the Garcia dot drill for most of my dot shooting.

 

[wgm2011]

If it were me, my POA would be at 12 o'clock

I thought about that but kinda reduces the sighting area from a 2" circle to just a single point at the top of the circle.

My current thought is to draft an overlay so that I can aim at the center of the target and evaluate the results taking into account the 1.7" POI drop. The center of the overlay circle would be placed 1.7" below the center of the target circle.

Bill

 

[jtischauser]

Im out to 7yds on this, the weakhand is where you make or break a clean run.

I've moved on to the Garcia dot drill for most of my dot shooting.

What's the Garcia dot drill?