Range Time 11/11

Spent some more quality time with the HK this week, and the Need for Speed. The drill of the week was 1 Reload 2, shot on the center box of an SEB target. The drill is pretty simple, can be shot from almost any distance, and is a great way to work on the draw, reload, and fast follow up shots. Using the Surefire shot timer app I was even able to record some times after I adjusted the sensitivity 5 or 10 times. 

Distance: 7 yards (Paced it off afterwards, and it was really 8)

Round Count: 50 (Really 48, had to use two shots to calibrate the microphone for the shot timer)

I ran this drill 16 times. Why? Because about half the time I wasn't getting usable results on the shot timer. Despite this, I got in 8 clean-ish runs that break down as:

Draw: 2.63

Reload: 3.35

2nd shot: .63

Obviously I have some work to do, but within the data there are a couple of bright spots. These are the areas I have identified within the fundamental skills of this drill that need work:

The Draw: Clearing the cover garment was slowing me down a lot. I need to work on consistently grabbing a handful of shirttail and getting it high enough to get a good grip on the gun. Toward the end I found that if I left the bottom button undone it made things much easier, without sacrificing concealment. 

The Reload: A couple of flubbed handful of shirt and mag reloads skewed the times towards the slow end. Same as the draw, consistently clearing the shirt will speed things up. I was also slower than I needed to be on the press out after the reload. The bright spot here was using a pre-loaded thumb on the slide release to put the gun in battery. I like this technique a lot, and it is much faster than the overhand method I used to use. 

The Follow Up Shot: That split time should actually read .46, but some slow runs early on throw it off. 4 of the eight runs were a .46, which is slow, but consistent. Of the other 4, 2 were faster and 2 slower. I think the issue here is I'm waiting for too clean a sight picture. If I could just see a little faster. Maybe I should eat more carrots. 

After working on Speed Speed Speed, I ran dot torture and shot a 49/50 at about 11 feet. This was frustrating to no end since, for once, I didn't drop a single one hand only shot (barely). I anticipated recoil on one shot, and blew a perfect 50. This is why I like this drill so much, there's almost no margin for error, and if you don't make 50 good-very good trigger presses, you're not going to get that coveted 50/50. 

All in all a good range session. I shot pretty well, and nobody got Tex Grebnered.