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Improve Your Shooting: The 50-Round Skill Sustainment Course of Fire<\/a><\/p>\n

In case you didn\u2019t already know it, if you don\u2019t continue to shoot over time, you will slowly lose your shooting skills. Ammunition is more reasonable that it was a couple of years ago, but you still want to make the most of your training dome and dollars. How do you maintain your skill set without burning through a lot of ammunition? Simple: take your time and make every shot a count.<\/p>\n

Dry fire practice at home is a great way to keep your skills sharp. If you add a\u00a0Mantis X training system<\/a>, that\u2019s even better. Travis Pike gave the Mantis\u00a0five stars<\/a>\u00a0and Jeremy gave it\u00a0four<\/a>. Yes, it runs over $200 or about the price of 250 rounds of 9mm ammo. I haven\u2019t formally reviewed my own personally-owned unit, in part because I haven\u2019t used it as much as I\u2019d like yet. At the same time I\u2019ve used it enough that I strongly recommend it for new and experienced shooters alike.<\/p>\n

Even at that, though, no matter how much dry fire and Mantis X practice you complete, everyone needs real, live-fire handgun practice.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a suggested fifty-round course of fire to maintain keep the skill sets you\u2019ve acquired through past training and practice sharp. You should use something small, like a 3\u00d75 index card or a 3\u2033 circle at three to five yards.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Remember, aim small miss small. If you keep all fifty rounds on the target, move back to ten or fifteen yards and repeat (if you have enough\u00a0gun<\/a>\u00a0food).<\/p>\n

5 Rounds:<\/strong>\u00a0Slow fire marksmanship<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Concentrate on your crush grip, sight picture and alignment and a smooth trigger squeeze\/press. Your goal: a ragged, one-hole group.\u00a0 Want to add another aspect to this one? Load a single round in your\u00a0magazine<\/a>\u00a0(or revolver) and practice reloads between shots. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.<\/p>\n

5 Rounds:<\/strong>\u00a0Presentations from position two and three<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Do this while dry-firing with an empty\u00a0gun<\/a>\u00a0five times each from\u00a0position two<\/a>\u00a0and again from\u00a0position three<\/a>, initially at about half-speed speed, watching for wasted movement. Eliminate any wasted motion which eats up precious time.<\/p>\n

Repeat with a loaded gun: one shot each time, alternating between starting at position two (held at your hip) and position three (high compressed ready). Shot speed is dictated by your ability to put all shots into your target \u2013 it\u2019s a balance of speed and accuracy. Again, load a single round into the\u00a0magazine<\/a>\u00a0(or cylinder) to force yourself to execute (flawless) reloads.<\/p>\n

5 Rounds:<\/strong>\u00a0The Draw<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Do this dry-fire at home, practicing a smooth draw after clearing your cover garment.\u00a0Remember: Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.<\/em>\u00a0And don\u2019t put any body parts in front of that muzzle.<\/p>\n

At the range, draw and fire one round, hitting a 3\u2033 to 5\u2033 target at 3 to 5 yards as quickly as you are able to make good hits safely. If you\u2019re on a public range that won\u2019t allow draws, practice more presentations from positions two and three.<\/p>\n

10 Rounds: Strong hand \/ Support hand only<\/h3>\n

Shoot five rounds, slow-fire, strong hand only using good form. Repeat with your support hand only.\u00a0 Concentrate on fundamentals and keep all shots in your circle or on index card.<\/p>\n

5 Rounds:<\/strong>\u00a0Rhythm drill<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A rhythm drill is where you learn to shoot faster while keeping your rounds on target. Same target.\u00a0 Start with five rounds loaded in your gun. Shoot one round, then a second shot one-second later, then a third a half-second later, then a fourth shot a quarter-second later then the fifth shot as quickly as you can get it off and stay on the target. Can\u2019t shoot \u201crapid fire\u201d at your range? Shoot five controlled pairs or repeat the previous strong hand\/support hand drill.<\/p>\n

10 Rounds:<\/strong>\u00a0Reloads<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Chambered round with an empty magazine\u00a0in the gun. Draw and fire one shot, reload and fire a second shot as quickly as you can keep your shot on target. For revolvers, load and fire one shot and practice reloading.<\/p>\n

5 Rounds:<\/strong>\u00a0Malfunctions \/ Ball and Dummy<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Load a \u201cfunny\u201d mag with five live rounds and one or two spent rounds (first round into the magazine\u00a0should be live). Start with an unloaded chamber and loaded \u201cfunny\u201d mag. Revolver shooters, use the Ball and Dummy Drill loading 2-3 live rounds at random and spent shells in the remaining chambers.\u00a0 Then practice your trigger control to fire all live rounds through same hole.<\/p>\n

Final 5 Rounds<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Circle back (pun intended<\/a>) to the beginning and finish with what you started with, concentrating on marksmanship and focus. Shoot a perfect, precise five-shot string.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Improve Your Shooting: The 50-Round Skill Sustainment Course of Fire In case you didn\u2019t already know it, if you don\u2019t continue to shoot over time, you will slowly lose your shooting skills. Ammunition is more reasonable that it was a couple of years ago, but you still want to make the most of your training … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-schtuff","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98997,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98996\/revisions\/98997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}