How to Speed Up Your Gun Draw 

Spot on. Huberman Lab had an episode on motor learning. He delves into the circuits involved and how to optimize a training bout in any motor skill domain, as well as finding a speed that generates some successes and many errors. This highlights and prunes the error circuits, while simultaneously reinforcing the patterns that led to successful execution of the movement. Apparently if you train like that and sit/clear your head for 5-10 minutes afterwards your brain replays the skill you just performed in reverse, then again forward when you sleep that night, somehow leading to improved learning. If you promptly go do another task after training, it doesn't replay those neural circuits at all until sleep later that night and some of the potential learning is lost. Lots of his suggestions overlap with the philosophy Pat Mac demonstrates, which isn't a surprise since several of the cited studies involved various SF groups and Pat Mac is amongst their pantheon of greats. I tried using everything he suggested on a range visit with only 150rds of 9, it ended up taking hours and the improvement from start to finish was profound. Makes me regret all the russky tuna cans we dumped during the good times XD

@Austin Kuipers 10 mins of focused intense practice can be more beneficial than an hour of practice.

very good analogy

Huh, I hadn't really considered it like that, but it does make sense.

3 is that yngwie on meth speed 🤣

Agreed. I've recently changed to red dots due to my old eyes no longer being able to focus on a front sight. I've been working to get the gun up high during the draw to be able to pick up the red dot sooner.

Another thing I’ve heard is to NEVER move your weapon to find the dot! Move your head to find the dot. It’s silly, but instinct, is to move the gun to find the dot, but just moving your head to build the muscle memory works better for me

@@AstralApophis You do not want to move your head to create sight alignment. This leads to tactical turtling and adds another moving part. Makes it harder to build a consistent presentation. Also, if you drill this sufficiently, your neck will let you know that it's not a good idea.

Experimenting…what works for me is to present the gun to target using the iron sights which (being “co-witnessed”) quickly brings the red dot in to view where I shift focus to the dot.

It’s weird that there isn’t a single professional pistol shooter who uses this technique… almost like it’s nonsense or something

This was at 10 yards but I like to go all the way back to 50

@@patmcnamara Thanks.

@@patmcnamara One more question so that I can set goals for myself: how big a target, 5 inch circle or center mass of full sized silhouette?

Shevet, it’s a good idea to vary your training regime around both target size & distances. This more closely resembles real world encounters in defensive shooting. Example: A larger practice target resembles the thoracic cavity, whereas a smaller one resembles necessary accuracy for cranial-occular hits. As distance increases & as target sizes decreases, shooting pace decreases…all of this corresponding to the shooter’s ability level.

omg dude 😂

Impossible to miss or impossible to Miss?

On his website he has his classes listed looks like all in North Carolina. Unless he has some more listed somewhere else.

Try breaking it down to just the components. This is a trick from sports psychology. Start where you have cleared the holster, end at the high presentation when you first see the sights/dot. You'll be able to get more reps in the same time frame. Try to do 200-400 reps every other day for a week. Split into two sessions per day is even better. On the off days, just take a few minutes at various points in the day and visualize yourself doing it, focusing on how it feels. After the week go back and do full draw with the new technique. See if it helped you create the new mind-muscle connections and come back to let us know.

@@silvermediastudio thanks for the suggestions. I’ll give those a try. 👍

@@MyFathersBusinessLLC they use it at concrete plants. Has to stand up to the aggregates being dumped in the bins all day long