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WITH YOUR PALMS FACING AWAY, RAISE your hands to eye level and extend your arms. Rotate your wrists inward, allowing the fingers of one hand to overlap the other, stacking [...]

I know PeoPle who are vastly knowledgeable about cameras, know all the specs in minute detail and can discourse about various features for hours but hardly take a picture. I [...]

Many students at Gunsite comment on how we emphasize the small details throughout a class. Students pay good money for tuition, ammo, travel, lodging, meals, etc., so it only makes [...]

IT'S QUITE SATISFYING TO PRESS THE trigger on your handgun and have the bullet impact precisely where you were aiming. In fact, this feeling is what keeps most shooters returning [...]

THIS DRILL WILL HELP YOU IMPROVE your draw speed and target transitions--along with reloading skills and sight picture and trigger control. It also reinforces the importance of controlling the gun's [...]

THIS DRILL WILL HELP YOU IMPROVE your draw speed and target transitions--along with recoil mitigation, and sight picture and trigger control. This is a great one to force you to [...]

Rimfire squirrel sniping when it's still hot enough to skinny-dip requires serious rifle skills. At best, you'll have just aglimpse of a squirrel's head to aim at and no margin [...]

THE BEST DRILLS ARE THE SIMPLEST, and it doesn't get any simpler than this one. But at the same time it combines almost every skill a defensive handgunner needs. I [...]

I'M SURE THIS IS SOMEBODY'S OFFICIAL drill or is a derivation of one, but it's an exercise I came up with one day when I had a limited amount of [...]

HERE'S THE SITUATION. YOU HAVE YOUR CONCEALED carry permit, bought a pistol, and decided which tactical loads work best. Now you need practice ammunition so you can really get to [...]

THIS VERSION OF THE BILL DRILL IS PROMOTED by Kyle DeFoor, and it's great for people who have mastered the fundamentals but want to shoot faster with accuracy. It will [...]

RELOADING IN A PERSONAL DEFENSE pistol fight is a rare event, but the truth is, if you run out of ammo in a pistol fight, you need to reload real [...]

CREATED BY TODD GREEN OF Pistol TRAINING.COM, this drill is intended to help shooters learn to change speeds as the situation requires. GEAR Gun, holster, four-plus rounds of ammo, shot [...]

THE THREE-SECOND HEAD SHOT STANDARD was created by instructor Ken Hackathorn as a test of essential pistol shooting skills. It teaches target transition as well as front sight focus and [...]

THIS DRILL WAS DESIGNED BY TEAM SIG Sauer shooter and former member of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit Max Michel and has found great popularity with both competition and defensive [...]

'Don't believe the playing field will be level when you're attacked. Conditions will be most advantageous to your attacker, and you will be most vulnerable.'--Kelly McCann THE PRECEDING QUOTE BY [...]

THIS DRILL WAS ORIGINALLY SHARED with me by John Benner of the Tactical Defense Institute as a basic trigger-control drill. The beauty of it is its simplicity and the fact [...]

THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL DRILL TAUGHT at the Gunsite Academy, although it did stem from a gun writer event I attended there. I noticed a number of shooters had [...]

THIS DRILL WAS DESIGNED BY MASTER instructor Ken Hackathorn to refine essential skills such as deployment of the pistol from ready and holster positions, trigger control, sight alignment/sight picture and [...]

I CREATED THIS DRILL TO REINFORCE A number of combat-related shooting skills. The combination of speed and accuracy is the key to combative shooting, and this drill combines it all. [...]

THE MAD HALF MINUTE IS THE CREATION of Special Forces veteran Mike Pannone (CTT Solutions) and is designed to test a shooter's ability to move, take an accurate shot and [...]