Your Dry Practice Plan 4: March 1 - 15
If you carry a gun, you do so because you believe you might be in a gunfight. If you knew you were going to be in a gunfight tomorrow, would you spend some time dry practicing today? We all waste countless minutes per day mindlessly scrolling social media or watching TV. Take just ten of those minutes each day and better yourself. Here is your dry practice plan for the next two weeks.
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Strong Hand Only
I worked on strong-hand-only (SHO) techniques during this two-week period, including SHO presentation, SHO reloads, and SHO malfunctions. I consider SHO skills to be fairly unlikely, but deserving of some amount of practice. I also made sure to maintain higher-likelihood skills during this period.
I began with some dedicated SHO presentations. Although these aren't functionally much different than two-handed presentations, I did experience some slight issues clearing concealment if I wasn't careful. After half-a-dozen days of working this skill, I did a three-day maintenance session with a day each of two-handed presentation, reloads, and malfunctions.
During the last six days I alternated SHO reloads and SHO malfunctions. I worked both the legacy "between the knees" technique, and by reinserting the slide-locked gun into the holster. For malfunctions I practiced tap/rack, stovepipes, and double-feed/FTEs.
Even during these sessions I maintained previously practiced skills. I begin each an every session with one minute of two-handed draw. Both the reload and malfunction sessions gave me organic opportunity to practice SHO draw. I also made sure to get at least two reps of two-handed reloads in on reload days, and one rep each of the various malfunctions on malfunction days.
During the next two week period we'll replicate this whole process with WHO.
My Results
Below are my day-by-day results of the past two weeks.
January 1 - 15: 150 minutes, January 16 - 31: 160 minutesFebruary 1 - 15: 150 minutes, February 16 - 29: 140 minutesMarch 01: 10 minutes SHO presentation10 minutes carbine transition to pistolMarch 02: 10 minutes SHO presentation10 minutes carbine up drillsMarch 03: 10 minutes SHO presentation10 minutes carbine transition to left sideMarch 04: 10 minutes SHO presentation10 minutes carbine malfunctionsMarch 05: 10 minutes SHO presentation10 minutes carbine transitionsMarch 06: 10 minutes SHO presentationMarch 07: 10 minutes presentationMarch 08: 10 minutes reloadsMarch 09: 10 minutes malfunctionsMarch 10: 10 minutes SHO reloadsMarch 11: 10 minutes SHO malfunctionsMarch 12: 10 minutes SHO reloadsMarch 13: 10 minutes SHO malfunctionsMarch 14: 10 minutes SHO reloadsMarch 15: 10 minutes SHO malfunctionsMonthly Target: 310 minutesMonthly Actual: 150 minutesCumulative Target to Date: 750 minutesCumulative Actual to Date: 750 minutes (12.5 hours)Cumulative Actual w/ Carbine: 990 minutes (xx hours)Current Streak: 75 days (85 including last 10 days of 2019)Tobacco Free: YES
