The timing on this is crazy. Was just running 25 yard drills at the range and realizing how much I need to practice at that distance. Your ideology of 90% shooting is spot on for me. I've referred to it as shooting instinctively instead of focused, but the results are very similar. As usual, thanks for this.
Thank you, Aaron! Everyone asks why I shoot so fast even at longer ranges and are always amazed at my hits. I just tell them I just shoot my sights. For me I'm more likely to anticipate my shot if I hold my sights forever on the target. Edit: You are way better at explaining this, so I will save this for my reference to share with my buddies. I appreciate all your hard work for the gun community!
Agreed. I say to all new shooters When the site is on the target pull the trigger don’t delay the more you fart around the more you move around and you will over think it keep it simple
You are an excellent communicator and teacher. I was one that the Dickens Drill woke up to what you are talking about and now look forward to pushing the distance. I am a new subscriber and have learned a lot already so keep the great content coming!
I always learn so much from ur videos. U have a gift from man upstairs in teaching cuz something how u break it down I just actually understand. Thank u for that sir! Much respect from Bokoshe Oklahoma
Honest to goodness thought I was watching a Ben Stoeger video! This concept of 90% shooting is where sport and self defense style training intersect. Be as good as you can and as fast as you can and know there is no perfect
If you don't push yourself to failure, you never find your limits. If you don't know your limits, you don't know what to work on or if you're even making progress. I learned that from you.. for free.. Also, do what you don't like to do. For me, that's handheld light shooting. Those 2 tips drastically improved my capabilities and help with training efficiencies. Now I look forward to those humbling cold start drills.
I look forward to my cold starts as well it gives me a real idea of where I’m at. You only get that once so I usually do a Bill drill or el prez right after I do my 25 yard 5 shot group.
@@swiftaudi I'll do different cold start drills but one I've been doing a lot lately is from concealed draw, 5rds at 5yds as fast as I can into a standard size note card with a 6th dummy rd loaded randomly in the mix.
Shooting in your class was the first time I learned about "acceptable" sight picture, and it totally changed my defensive shooting, both speed AND accuracy. Relaxing my understanding of what a sight picture 'needs' to be actually resulted in my accuracy improving a lot.
Great information as always. I follow B. Stoeger-Practical “Competition” Shooting- and he conveys with your 90% Accuracy concept from the defensive training perspective.
If I want a top 10 finish at a competition, I need to shoot 85% and above into the A zone. That’s moving fast and transitioning between targets and multiple distances, so not far off a 90% requirement on a single target from a static position. But when I train static I’m looking to push for 95 to 100% as fast as possible so I can hit that 85%+ I need while under pressure and on the move. Unless you’re a bullseye competitor, every serious pistol shooter , whether defensive or competitive, should focus their training on the speed and accuracy vector and see how far they can progressively take it. I think that a shot timer is an essential piece of gear; if you’re not engaging in measured practice most every time you hit the range, you may be just making noise with money.
@@beardly0121 I’ve used a shot timer app for par times while dry firing. I train at an indoor range a lot so I use a DAA Shotmaxx 2 wrist unit which measures the shock wave in your wrist. Had it for years now . Works great 👍🏼
@@beardly0121 Not cheap but it def does the job in my experience - allows me to record my data even with the range full - sometimes it’s hard to hear the beep when I’m double ear pro’d but then I’ll just start from my drills from surrender so the unit is right by my head
Awesome video and information. Performance shooting is where its at. If you are not pushing and failing you are not going to get better. I have learn this following you and others pushing performance and practical shooting. The old way will get you "kilt in da streets".
When at the range I see the majorly of shooters shooting 3-7 yards. Because everyone says thats the distance gun fights happen. Using a timer and different targets for time has help me improve. I try to shoot about 70-80 percent one handed. Plan on working the sight picture fast now. Thanks for training Aaron.
3 rounds, 3 yards, 3 seconds is something that a lot of shooters can actually train for as well. The guntube world isn't representative of most people who own and carry a pistol. 95%+ of people who carry for self defense don't have their own backyard range or a big chunk of open land they can do essentially whatever they want on. They don't pull in RU-vid money or have sponsors sending them ammo or have the cash to blow through 500 rounds a session several times a month. Most people are stuck with indoor ranges they have to pay $20 an hour for with a bunch of rules about how fast they can shoot, can't draw from a holster, can't turn the lights off, can't use dummy rounds because they'll eject forward of the bench and can't pick them up, etc. In the normal non guntube world, just going to an indoor range with 15 yards of space being able to shoot 150 rounds slowfire at static targets without magazine changes or drawing is about the best they can hope for and well above what most people even do regularly. If you commit to going to the range once a month and spend $50 on ammo to train for 3 rounds, 3 yards, 3 seconds, it might not be peak performance, but it's leaps and bounds ahead of what most people accomplish or are even able to afford.
I really enjoy your breakdown and technical analysis of the drill and time management. You explain the process well and have about the best personality and language skills that I have ever seen in a instructor. Great content as always. Keep up the awesome content.
Unquestionably the best content on the Tube. I very much appreciate the thoughtful, comprehensive approach to improving skills. Delivery is top notch. Grateful.
He has classes all over the US and they aren’t horribly expensive. Took a rifle class of his and I learned a ton in it. Best two days of shooting I’ve done
I have a routine pretty close to this and I do pretty good when I keep my cadence up. It's when I slow down for 1/2 a second and think too much about the next shot where I usually end up outside the box. Same thing happens with my wife, who's an excellent shot with both pistol and rifle. My major weakness is shooting one handed with my support hand. I need alot of work there, but as Aaron suggested, i tend to take the easy way out. I guess it's human nature. The other thing that I find pretty common, when I push it back to 50 and 75 yards with an 8" round steel plate, some days I do well, and others I totally stink the joint up. I know the reality for me is, I'd never shoot a pistol at that distance in a self defense scenario, because with that much space, I'd assume there's going to be plenty of places for me to take cover and get outta the way. The best gun fight for me is the one I'm never in. Still fun to challenge ourselves though. I'll also say the critical element here is having a really great zero on the dot. That makes a huge difference. Happy early Thanksgiving Sage-a-holics.God Bless
Thanks fir the drills and great videos about all things Red Dot this makes alot of sense, I've also seen Bob Vogel offer up some of his police qualification drills that with time and training practice he is now able to do in half the time at 5x the qualifications distance required for no other reason than to challenge himself ,thank you for the challenging us to be better
This is KINDA what J.B. Books was trying to tell Young Gillom in the shooting lesson scene in 'The Shootist'. I know, movies, but this lesson made me think of that scene.
I’m really glad you posted this video because I need this reminder. I am terrible at doing this. What I’m referring to? Is your example of if I speed up and I don’t get essentially all of my hits inside of that designated target area I feel like I need to go back to those fundamentals and then I slow down on my shooting.
I really appreciate your reviews and more importantly your training videos as they've made me a better shooter, so much so that I will be signing up on your Patreon site so that I can continue to get your videos. On a separate topic, in case you read this comment, I'm curious as to why you've never reviewed any Wilson Combat pistols. I just purchased an EDC X9 and it's a really nice shooting pistol.
This also illustrates another similar point: At a certain range and size, no matter how much time you have, you probably won't get 100% anyway., If you can get ~90% at 3 times the speed, why wouldn't you? Great video.
Once you can train with a firearm safely, and can demonstrate basic firearm fundamentals, you should be shooting IDPA or USPSA. Even if its one match a month, your skills will improve dramatically.
At my 1st idpa match I viewed it as working the fundamentals at speed while thinking and moving under pressure. I enjoyed it and got 4th out of 43. I'll do it again cuz of that and it being fun. But at this point i will only compete like that a couple times a year at the most. Why....cuz I wanna practice for reality and not the game.
The only issue is that even at mi local public range the pistol targets are set at 10yds and they will now allow you to shoot pistols on the rifle side where the closest you can set the targets is 50yds.
I wish you would have taken a bit of time to discuss common gun range (location you train at) limitations and how that plays into the training mindset, but I believe you have mentioned it in other videos so hopefully people go seek out that info or at least think about it as well.
Coming from a Texan that shoots on family land, our standards are 6” plates at 10 ish yards as fast as you can pull with seeing your sights from the draw. 70% accuracy we are fine with cuz a mag dump on a man sized target is 13 out of 15 rounds.
THIS. I haven't seen a single RU-vid gun expert yet, and there are a lot of them that put out good information that I respect, that have put some serious effort into make a video or a series of videos that really tackle what the average normal person is allowed to do and can afford. It's one area of the CCW self defense world that is almost entirely overlooked, similar to how prepping and survival for people stuck in apartments is entirely overlooked. A lot of the experts have their own outdoor ranges and enough money to spend on ammo that they can practice things and achieve at a level that is only possible with access to those resources, and then they go back and teach in reference to what got them there, ie in reference to also having an outdoor rule-free range and a massive supply of training ammunition. A series of videos where the entire premise is the shooter is stuck with an indoor range they have to pay for per session, at most 150 rounds to train with, no holster draws, no low-light, no magazine changes, no dummy rounds, no dropping magazines, no manipulating the slide on range objects, etc. What can a shooter do with that level of resources and money, and with those limitations built in, to actually improve their skills. That would make a hell of a useful video series.
@@cympimpin20 agreed there aren't nearly enough videos on this issue. Lucas from TRex Arms has one decent video on it if you haven't seen it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wqLKmVxb4WY.html My main tip would be to look into either laser trainers or airsoft guns to get in valuable dry fire training at home. This can be a huge help in building muscle memory without the expense of live ammo.
"You have to pay your dues." Amen! There's so much emphasis now on "target-focused shooting" that some people have forgotten that a clear sight picture is the line of departure where you move from when you are prepared, not the objective.
When the Lucas Botkin look alike got dropped at the mall a while back I was pleasantly surprised to immediately see an increase in pistol use at the 50yd range. That lasted for about a month then everyone went back to missing plate racks at 7 yds. If you are going to your local range to sight in your rifle at 100, keep a couple mags around for your pistol. It doesn't hurt that badly to push yourself.
Since you shoot so many different guns, do you have a problem with pressing out and your sight (dot) being high or low, because for example you just did a bunch of reps on a Glock and now you have a Chambers in hand and the grip angle is different? Do you recommend any tricks or coping strategies for fixing this issue?
@@SageDynamics Then I must be pressing out wrong, somehow. Am I supposed to alway go slow enough that I can visually guide the top of the slide and the optic body where I need them, or do I get reference for elevation some other way, perhaps from my thumbs or index finger?
