I'm going to start this dot drill. The catch is I'm going to start out different. First, I going to put one round on every dot without reference to time. From the standing I will build a perfect prone position and break a perfect shot at each dot. Once I can break/build my position and break a perfect shot 21 consecutive times, I will SLOWLY introduce time constraints as prescribed. My goal is to progressively get fast enough to complete the dot drill CORRECTLY. Once I have mastered the 100 yard 21 dot drill, (which will be a long time from now) I will start shooting 200 yard 21 dot drills. The local range only goes to 200 yards. Are there any other training suggestions for those of us who only have 100 yards ( 200 if we're lucky) to work with?
It’s been a long time (was on our SRT way back in ‘02) and I’m sure it’s changed significantly, plus my info is only second hand, but the Army MP SRT Phase two DMR course did some similar 1” & .5” dot work at 100m. It’s a joint school house and had a pretty high failure rate. I believe that they have started shooting further but back then and as far as ‘07 no shots were beyond 100m. The average LEO sniper shot is better measured in feet than yards.
Yo Phil. I really appreciate your skill set and you sharing this with us. I’ve been out of the precision rifle league for a couple of years and watching these vids has really helped me build my fundamentals. So thank you very much
I remember meeting you a long ass time ago while I was working at a restaurant. Cool to see your channel. I’ll try this drill on the next range trip. 🤙🏾
First thing i'ma going to do is go out and buy a 3 thousand dollar rile and a 25 hundred dollar scope. Instead of my off the rack rifle and my 3 hundred dollar Nikon scope.
I actually dug out spots for demonstration purposes so that I could keep the camera in focus, since I was running a manual focus on the cameras. Thanks tho.
Shoot the NRA MR-31 target at 100 yards, prone sling supported position, 20 shot/20 minute drill. The goal is to develop marksmanship to produce 200 point perfect scores with a high number of X-Ring hits. To reach this goal will require the shooter to come to an understanding for everything important to good shooting, except for wind reading skill development which actually requires long distance shooting practice to understand. At any rate, once the shooter realizes that sensitivity for having adjusted natural point of aim perfectly from shot to shot is key to best shooting then the shooter will be well poised to recognize when wind is the actual cause of error at long range. This is my advice from my experience with long range shooting leading to me earning the NRA American High Power Rifleman Award in Long-Range and US Distinguished Rifleman Badge.
Think we will be recommending this to our customers. Good stuff you’re doing here phill. We have been recommending your classes to customers. Keep up the good work
I’m in the gas gun world right now and just built a 6ARC AR. How should I adjust the time constraints to represent running a semi auto instead of a bolt gun?
I used to compete .22 Rimfire @ 200 yards as a kid... Mini-Palma class if I recall correctly? Anyway, yes this is a great exercise with iron sights and/or optic.... with or without the time constraints
My cousins and I shoot push pins at 100 yards. Those dots you have are way too easy. Many of us better shoot would be shooting those Quarter sized dots with a .22lr. Not centerfire.
Hey Phil, do you have a video tutorial of the best/easiest way to level your scope? I've tried many different methods over the years and never seem to be happy with it. Curious to know how you do it. Thanks!
I took a handgun class several years ago with the late Todd L Green. He had a similar drill called "Dot Torture" that tested more than just trigger pull and sight picture/sight alignment. I just discovered your site-I like it, pure information. I was an airwinger (70-74), but every other prior service Marine I meet was a Scout/Sniper. Semper Fi.
Very cool drill. Tried it last weekend with my .22. ( Cheaper ) I found it great for managing adrenaline and getting used to shooting in a slightly stressful situation, aka time.
Really nice, Phil, thank you. Reminds me of a higher-difficulty version of the Appleseed AQT, but with bipod not sling. I'm going to run this next rifle day, thanks. I'm guessing my Atlas bipod's slower deployment will push me past the times on that bottom line, but I'm interested in how slow I'll be.
with all the fluff on the internet, this is the meat and potatoes of shooting, even if you are not a sniper , This is the most hunting distance at least in the eastern us, so this is fantastic accuracy to achieve
@@mikeford963 my MDT XRS chassis has an adjustable cheek riser but i never thought about lowering it and getting it the heck out of the way when shooting with support side...seems like eye relief never works exactly the same from 'good' side to 'weak' side!
A Tikka action will do you just fine. Start with a factory T3 varmint and shoot it until the factory barrel is toast. By then you will have learned enough to know what you need and why. While quality equipment matters, quality practice is way more important than what action you choose.
