Range Time 11/18 and 11/22

Two range days have passed since my last post with significant gains made in the speed department. The theme lately has been pushing the envelope and watching it bend, thanks primarily to the Drill of the Week at pistol-training.com.

Last weeks drill was a 3x5 speed push. The drill involved two strings of fire.
1: Draw and fire two shots on an index card at 7 yards at comfortable pace with 100% hits. Repeat 10 times. Record times.
2: Take the fastest clean run from string 1 and set that as the PAR time for string two. Repeat the drill 10 times and record the fastest clean time and the total number of hits from string 2.

Results:
Gun: HK USP9
Distance: 7yd
Position: Holstered, Concealed
Fastest Time String 1: 3.53
Fastest Clean Time String 2: 3.16
# Hits String 2: 13

Not too bad for a slow guy. Too many years of blues guitar not enough speed metal, and by not enough I mean none. Draw is still way too slow but my splits are getting better. By the end of the drill I was anticipating and flinching pretty bad and ended the session working on proper trigger control on some two inch circles.

This week's drill of the week was one of my favorites, 1 reload 2s. The short version... two weeks ago I was stuck in slow motion or hadn't had enough coffee.

The drill was a little different than how I was running it previously. I shot the first run at a comfortable pace, set that as the par time and kept ticking off tenths until I ran out of skill.

Start position: concealed, CCC shaggy, untucked flannel shirt
Type of reload: slide lock
Starting par: 5.8
Best par: 4.8 (4.79; 2.16, 2.40, .23)
Rounds fired: 48

That's a 2.16 draw, 2.40 reload and a .23 split. To put that in perspective my current goals are to get my draw and reload under 2 seconds and my splits under .2 for this sort of drill. The key was hard focus on the front sight and seeing just what I need to instead of a perfect bullseye alignment. Still have a lot of work to do, but results like these make me believe my goals are attainable. Also shot dot torture again and hit 49/50 again, dropping one strong hand shot.

I made one minor modification to the USP today, blacking out the white dots of the rear sight with a sharpie. I couldn't take them anymore, sitting there mocking me, cluttering up my sight picture and confusing my eyeballs. Not cool white dots. Not cool. One minor gear note, I'm in the market for a lower profile mag carrier, my tried and true blade-tech carrier is a bit bulky and prints more than the gun.

Two more great days on the range and another 200 rounds through the USP.