Range drills and developing a plan to better your shooting...

Folks, by all means, go exercise your rights, but get good with what you do! Train a bit during the week so that you can make your range time "business time" and focus on "validating" your weekly training goals.

Work on trigger control by dry firing at home, work on mag changes at home, work on gun handling and the rules at home, work on holster work at home and finally, develop a "workout" plan for shooting at the range. I dunno, something like:

~25 Rounds slow fire in groups of 5.
~24 Rounds double taps in groups of 6.
~24 Rounds triple taps (Mozambique) in groups of 6.
~24 Rounds double tap transitions (between 3 targets/notecards) in groups of 6.
~25 Rounds slow fire in groups of 5 to cool down.

You could throw in a session a week to work on 75' slow sighted fire, or throw in a session off transitions between 5 targets with 5 rounds (bowling pin-esque practice), or point shooting (coarse aim)/point shoot from the hip/point shoot from across body/...

The point is that range time should be an extension of everything that you've worked/out at home or learned at home. I had an Olympic Air Rifle coach tell me that shooting is really 99% mental and he was totally right. The act of putting the sights and target and twitching a few muscles are acts that should be learned at home. [For those into the OODA-loop, it is what Boyd called the last stage, "ACT", and that is easy for anyone who has the technical stuff under the belt to do... Getting into the position where you won't get killed trying to act or whatever is the tough part!! Granted moving and shooting, bob-n-weave, and being tacticool are very physical, but they are part of the OOD cycle!]

(This is sort of a cross post from my other blog...)