A Day on the Range
- Jon Dufresne
- Mar 20, 2025
- 21 min read
Updated: Dec 1, 2025
In this video I take you thought a training day on the range. How I practice, diagnose issues and try to correct them.
hey what's up guys so let's go on a fun adventure and go
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shoot hey what's up guys so today I'm going to go through and show you guys what a practice session looks like for
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me now this isn't like how I practice every single time this is going to be just this time because I want to work on
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uh some transition stuff and I I also want to work on a little bit of uh like my visual things as usual like there's a
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lot of visual stuff that I want to make sure and there's a focus a heavy focus on how I'm mounting my gun to my
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shoulder right so how everything's kind of working and and physically kind of uh
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recoiling in me or on me or against me I don't know whatever it is so we'll uh
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we'll go through it you guys will see kind of like uh what I do but essentially have a bunch of ammo my rifle and uh
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we're going to have some fun so sorry if the sound isn't so good
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because uh obviously I'm doing this out on the Range and I'm doing it with my phone uh cuz currently I'm in Texas
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traveling for uh the night op Summit if you haven't been probably uh should try it out man it's kind of fun but I'm out
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on their range at the ranch uh in Dilly Texas and this is one of their ranges
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out of like I don't know 800 of them and uh I am doing my own thing for today
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since uh classes has haven't started and I'm here earlyish so going to go ahead
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and set up some targets and then uh kind of talk you through what I'm thinking and how I'm going to go about uh what I
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practice all right guys so for reference I want you guys to see the targets that I'm going to be shooting just so you
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guys uh kind of understand where my where I'm coming from so I talked about how I want to do some Transitions and I
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need to work on a lot of visual stuff and I also want to be cognizant of my connection to my rifle so VIs ually uh I
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don't have any partials so I made some partials with a sharpie and I I forgot my the spray paint up there so I'm using
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a sharpy to signify so this side would be the hit Area this would be the hard cover right on this one we're doing a
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tuxedo so it'll be good hit Area hard cover hard cover right and on the last
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one is just headbox right so just to give me uh references to use so that I
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can place my eyes in specific spots now when you set up your targets I I like to set them up so that they
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make sense for what I'm trying to accomplish and I I would I would recommend doing something of the sort
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but uh everybody's got their own sorry cut off so it it all comes down to like
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what you're trying to do and what you're trying to practice guys and what you're trying to accomplish overall so when it
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comes to this uh I'm I'm going to be working a little bit of transitions I'm going to spread them out sorry about
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that you're welcome dick shots um but when when uh when I work these out I'm
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going to spread them out from where they are cuz they're way too close together so I'm going to probably spring spring one out further than that piece of Steel
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spring one out a little further out or or maybe closer in depth but I'm going to mess around with them a little bit so
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that my eyes can learn where to pick spots on the Target and that way my transitions can you know actually
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transition or be transitions versus being uh range [ __ ] so uh you'll see
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a bunch of reps of that because I'm going about to do it for two mags but uh but just something to kind of see and
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and uh and visualize as you play with this and then we're going to start adding a little bit of probably movement into it because like why
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not all right guys uh something else to throw at you I'm also going to be using a new laser so uh I'm going to be
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working a lot of that laser stuff just because it's it is new to me and I want to get used to it but I also uh want to
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kind of play around with it I want to get some reps behind it live been doing a lot of dry fire the last couple days with it and finally got out to the range
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so I get to play with it so let's check it out right so starting somewhere around her
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all right so nothing wild but check it out right so kind of looking at what I've what I was doing so my vision was
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kind of like trying to place itself here on this Target and I was like all right cool in the game playing it little
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mistakes happen and it's kind of cool but you can see here right same thing Vision was trying to place somewhere in
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the center is and I got some and then I pushed one pretty hard uh still still in the alpha not too bad and I wasn't
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shooting super fast so it wasn't crazy but then on the head only Target on the first rep kept it at the center kind of
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gave myself two alpha at the center but that would be hard cover so was freaking mics and then uh over here I had one low
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kind of gave it away and then a little bit of work on the head on the last few reps where I really focused in where my
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eyes were in the right spot so little things like that are going to happen guys and I suggest kind of you know
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getting used to it it is fun but it also is something that happens uh quite often and you should understand why you did it
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more than oh no I did it so it's not like uh like I ain't upset about it I'm
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just like okay good I saw that happen I saw that I made that mistake visually or mentally or physically and then let's
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correct it on the next rep kind of thing so I'm going to Pace those outs pretty much and then uh and then redo this bad
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boy all right cool guys so everything's pasted let's do it
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again ah a little whipping right so I whip the gun across I don't like that [ __ ] I need to start pushing my eyes
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over there and let it kind of Glide there by itself
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all right so let's go check them
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out so hopefully this made sense but uh let's flip the camera around so over here we see pretty much
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everything landed where I kind of wanted it obviously the the the line Breakers would be better but that that worked out
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nicely over here once again pretty open Target it's just uh the tuxedos are
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pretty easy shooting um you just any overtravel that you do visually or where if you don't visually and you just whip
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the gun over there you're going to see that same [ __ ] and then over here one of them kind of swung a little low just off
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my offset cuz I wasn't paying attention enough and my eyes kept gravitating towards this pasty and instead of like
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up here by this Alpha so that may be part of the issue there so just something to kind of focus on but this
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is what I do on my practice guys I I go through it I go through a rep of some sort I really try to focus on what I'm
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doing um the the first couple reps of this last one so I guess set two if you
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want to call it that but a couple of the first reps I felt like I was one whipping the gun I kind of messed I I mentioned that but I also noticed that I
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wasn't uh engaged with the gun like Mount wise so my shoulder or my grip essentially was pretty yucky on it so I
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obviously had to like rehon that and once I did my splits ended up like coming into into play a little longer or
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faster and I also was able to start pushing a little bit of a speed there without having to actually physically
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push speed it just happened out of efficiency so that's what I'm looking for with my shooting so uh now it's time
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to ramp it up a little bit maybe change up the order and maybe I'll start from center right sorry Center left right or
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right left or something like that so I'm going to mess with around with that after I load and uh you guys will see that in a
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sec all right so a little bit of talking to stuff right um when you guys are loading mags I don't know about you but
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like I contemplate like all the things I was doing and uh and kind of like hey what
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am I messing up what can I can I do better kind of thing and I I kind of go through that um uh I I have found myself
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like kind of zoning out when I uh when I load mags which I think is also kind of nice for the brain so I don't think
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that's a bad thing but maybe somebody out there know better and and could say like hey that's that's not what we want
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with our brains or whatever but you know like hey your brain needs a break sometimes too and kind of needs to rest
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so you may find that this a it's a helpful thing or whatever but uh zoning out and just making it like a normal
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people task is kind of nice uh but like I said I I tend to like try H what was I
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feeling what can I do better on that um if there was something like that sometimes during like uh competitive
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Natures or at matches I'll go through and kind of like oh man like I kind of
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messed up that spot right there let me kind of fix that for the next rep or next time I go out there or whatever so
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sometimes I get into those and that's that's okay in my opinion um I think it's important to be self-reflective in
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some form fashion so that you're not uh becoming stagnant and also you're not like full of yourself um and thinking
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that you're really good because as you can see like we all miss shots and we're all going to miss shots especially if
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you're pushing yourself but if you're one of those people that never want to miss so you can slow down all the time to not miss you're you're failing your
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own self in training because you're not actually training at that point you're like patting yourself on the back the
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whole day instead so something to try out or maybe play around with to think about in this game but um just something
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something I I want to throw at you while I was loading mags sometimes also uh people ask me
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like hey John why do you only bring like a couple mags to the range um and and just load every time and it's uh one to
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let my gun cool a little bit but it also like I said gives my mind kind of like a break if need be and also uh allows me
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to kind of relax a little bit too so it's kind of nice um so what what I'm going to do I'm going to flip the camera
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to the other side of me so from where you guys were watching it last time going to watch it from the
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opposite mainly cuz like why not see both sides if you're going to do this kind of thing but also uh out of the
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sake of you know I want to see it so this footage is for me also so yeah uh
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let me
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see all right so same kind of thing but I'm going to go I'm going to go Center play with right and play with left uh
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and then I'm going to try oppose it at some point probably on the next
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mag come on get my bra my brain straight center right left right
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threw that one hard I wasn't even pay
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attention so this were rough so mentally my brain kind of wasn't there uh it
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it'll show uh quite a bit on this one so you guys will see it but check this out so on the Bottom t or sorry the far
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right target which is just the headbox I had a few that were just like offset freaking messes um over here right I had this one
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that I pushed I think I called that this was the first Target I was trying to shoot and then on the last Target I
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whipped a few really hard and you can see there's a lot more edgers this time from previously cuz I was whipping the
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gun and then you can see all the hard cover hits from me just not focusing on what I should have focused which is up
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here somewhere right so guess what going and do it again right try and do better
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so constantly trying to improve boys improve and in whatever way I can right and like it's just it's just practice
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dude who cares uh in in the grand scheme of things nobody's going to come out here and be like ah you suck bro they
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may say it on the internet but that doesn't bother me it's like it's the internet bro it's not real it's m craft
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so let's do it again is
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that all right dude so by the way we're we're about uh I think like maybe seven
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eight yards nothing crazy from the target but so center right left center
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right
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all right those aren't too bad but the right one I feel like I'm struggling pretty hard on that one so we going to try and get a couple more out of this
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all right so those felt a little better but not not as good as I'd want them to so I'm going to work on a little bit
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more but let's see what we got so far right Target still had a
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couple more low ones especially at the beginning there kind of cleaned them up after I had one more to the left here
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that I dragged off the Target on my second shot to start moving over to the left there I'm sorry to the right I kind
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of dragged over and wa say that one more time so as I I shot second shot ended up
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over here as I started to go ahead and try and drag this way cuz my focus was now on the next Target instead of on the
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one I was currently on and then over here did a little bit better there's still a couple that kind of hit in here
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but it's a little less than the first rep so not too bad but still not not my favorite so it could still be better and
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continue to work on so probably a couple more reps of this and uh and then I'll move on to the next thing where I'm
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going to try and add a little bit of movement into this and and probably extend some some distance too but
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partials are definitely one of my one of my uh uh what weaknesses so I want to make
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sure I start to look at them a little bit different and focus on them a little bit different and also give give them
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the attention they're they're du right the the higher the difficulty of Target the more I need to give it the the right
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amount of Love uh when it comes to uh how I'm orienting those sites so going
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and do that
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all right guys so once again change the the camera view so you guys could see just a different view uh and and also
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once again I can see a different view when I review this stuff to kind of like isolate some of the problems I'm having
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which honestly is mostly on the the far Target on the on the left for me so he's
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giving me a little bit of issues so I'm really going to try and hone that one in so now I'm going to go uh from the the
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the far right target to the far left Target to the center Target the center one is the one I have the least issues
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with the far right one is uh I would consider the hardest difficulty right to me but then again not apparently when it
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comes to like my shooting and what we've been seeing that is the hardest Target for my difficulty I've gotten the most
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misses on that the most passes and and like the whipping that happens and it could be that the separation is a little
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wider but uh either way I'm going to start essentially on the the far I'm
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sorry the far right one so that I can get my transition to that left one that I'm having trouble with cuz that's the
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transition I'm having trouble with so I'm going to keep working on that so that right one to left one to Center one
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all right so that's what you guys are going to see
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hopefully all right
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little rough I got left got two more so so I got two rounds in the mag because I
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messed up one of the Reps so I'm going to just transition from the far right one to the left one so I can get another rep doing that one so let's say I did PE
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PE all right all right those actually look
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pretty good so let's check them out wow so uh let's go first Target
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right so first one that I was doing all pretty much in a little edgy
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on that guy but really really easy when it was the first Target um the last Target which kind of what I expected was
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pretty good I had a little hard cover like Charlie right here so that's that's maybe one of the ones I messed up when I
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came in this way but I don't remember I think it was it was actually one that I came in from the left for sure so or
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possibly and then over here really trying to put a lot more focus into it and look at that all pretty much in I'm
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happy with that so so improvement from from obviously pre the previous rep
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where I was all over the place over here all over the place over here cuz I was just like not in it not in it to Wi it
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really try to hone or Focus myself and that's what I ended up with so kind of cool so it's it this is how I practice
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guys and and this is just this focus on these partials with these Transitions and really trying to to be cognizant of
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where I'm putting my eyes and once I am it usually ends up being really good or at least more better than it was before
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and that's the kind of the goal so hopefully hopefully you guys are seeing that uh as you play out uh with this
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stuff now that was uh what was that five mags worth yeah five mags Worth to kind
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of play around with those things and that's not that's not like a little bit of ammo but it's less than a lot of
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people use for just straight up 5 yards burn it down on the Target and never try anything different so recommend that if
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especially if you have limited time or limited resources that this is something that you'll stand here and dry practice
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for a little bit before you do it live that may help you a lot and save you some ammo also allow your gun to cool
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down if that's the case too and then also uh in the long run like that may be
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your session right like so make sure you maximize that with some dry fire or dry practice and then do it live from there
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so it it's something to kind of play around with cool so hopefully this was educational uh I'm going to do a little
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bit of more shooting but I'm not going to do as much uh head talking as I was on this uh on this kind of like Explorer
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uh ex this portion of it but uh the next thing I'm going to do is pretty much
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going to be uh doubles so I'm going to do doubles from uh some distance all the way I'm sorry from uh about 10 yards
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probably 5 yards is kind of uh unnecessary but I'll probably start at 10: and then go all the way back uh to
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where my car is which is around 50 yards right now so where the rental is so should be okay um we'll see so I'm going
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to put up a new Target and kind of go at it so we'll see how that shakes out
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what for
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all right so you guys probably saw the whole thing
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and uh if you guys see so I put a reference point obviously
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cuz like I I need it I I haven't gotten to the point where I can't do it yet
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with without it at those distances um not not cognizantly so I have a couple
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High ones I can work on some that are kind of leaning a little right that I don't like um and then that one that I
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threw pretty hard or that's two I think I think no that's one so one that I threw pretty hard to the to the right
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there that I didn't or to the left sorry that I didn't really like but other than that um and uh and as I paste it where
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my car is about 40 yard so I started at 10: go all the way to 40 um which is
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kind of fun so I'm probably going to do that again so I'm going to paste these and uh rip it again and see see how I
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shakes out I try and really focus a little bit more on my shoulder connection I'm I think I'm pushing like
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I'm I'm pulling too hard with my left arm like more than I need to um I'm not
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sure why but it's something I'm doing I'm kind of being uh weird about it so I'm going to try it
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again
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for for
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all right so obviously miscounted a couple of those and pushed a few super hard so check this out boys all right
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sorry bump the camera so obviously pushed a couple super hard you guys saw them and you kind of saw my reaction I
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tried to like indicate what I saw with my arm cuz I couldn't you couldn't hear me from back there but like if you look
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at the Target let me actually if you look the C the the target like one of these happened right there at like 15
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yards right the first shot that came out of the gun I just pushed right into it man saw it happen I was like all right
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get your [ __ ] together bro and then fix it so this is what we've got right so we have mostly Charlie uh that that are
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like the ones that I got out and and I'm see being like it's dispersing somewhat
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uh consistent right so from from Center of where my impacts are based off my hold right they're kind of starting to
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spread out a little bit which is good right that's what I'm looking for I'm obviously looking for it to stay together but uh the goal is to try to
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identify outliers right so these were obvious outliers right the ones I pushed pretty hard maybe a couple of these
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maybe a couple of these depending on what I was doing and then definitely up up here I saw one and I kind of
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indicated in the video too you guys probably saw it where I indicated a high one I was looking at my DOT that's the
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split second I shot that I know I looked at it for sure it made me laugh um but it's something that happen two reps of
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doubles and um and I'm I'm probably the last thing I'm going to do for the day is probably a couple of um I forget what
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what he calls it but like it's a it's x-ray Alphas like build drill little exercise I can't remember the name of it
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it's like um rundown build drill rundown so I'm going to try it out cuz I haven't tried
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it yet and it looks pretty fun um I like build drills so I think it'll be fun doing it from 25 uh running up to 15
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doing another one reloading to 10 and do it uh so I think it'll be cool I got to double check what the parameters are so
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I got to check those online real quick cuz I can't remember uh what what they are that they're supposed to be like
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like the setup but um I'm going to I'm going to check that out and then uh set it up so we should have some fun and and
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play with it so I'll do that a few times probably on on camera for you guys but as you can see like range days are just
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uh exploratory for me or they working on something I'm not good at so shooting
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doubles out to distance I'm still having trouble here and there and why not work on it man so it doesn't hurt I got this
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whole range to myself there's literally nobody here um and and you guys are watching cuz I just make it right like I
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I filmed it but otherwise it would just be me so go explore things boys uh don't get upset by it just literally explore
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and see what you can get away with and what you can what you need to still work on and guess what you will get that much
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better for it uh almost guaranteed so uh let me set this thing up and then uh I'll video that for you
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guys all right guys so I'm going to give these uh this uh this this uh build rundown exercise uh
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ago and uh and play around with it so I had to look it up and figured out it is
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a 25 so I have a stick all the way on the ground at 25 over there then I have
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one at 10 and then there's one at five so at 25 you shoot six rounds build drill Stu on on
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paper for Alphas obviously um six rounds you run up to 10 shoot another six
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mandatory reload from 10 to 5 and shoot another six so it should be total 18 rounds and uh and we'll check it out
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we'll do uh we'll put it on the timer and do hit factor for it and check it out so should be pretty good um let me
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see let's reset this camera so that it's working all right there we go so should
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be able to see the target and pick me
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up bam oh God there we go
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F
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yeah lost my
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timer son of a [ __ ] all right
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so so I didn't catch the time it only got eight rounds out of it uh
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unfortunately and is a little warm against my leg so it only caught eight of the
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rounds just out of the sake of like I was running and it fell so that's fun
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but uh if you look got one Charlie on there and uh I may be able to extrapolate how
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how fast it went based off the time but on the on the video but I'm just going to do it
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again all right I'm going to try this uh Bill Jill rundown one more time um it uh
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it got messed up because I my timer the little ring that was on it broke off while I was running and uh of course it
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went tumbling so give this another go that's from my previous one as you guys saw but uh but I I'm not going to put up
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a whole new Target so you guys can see see it you'll see the new
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ones Dam it I want Charli again all
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right looking at the time it's 9:31 so 9:31 for
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that felt slow as hell all right you can
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see everything's in except for that one Charlie and I'm not sure where that happened I just can't I can't remember
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running it but uh I'll see it back in the video so I'll do the hit hit Factor
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formula and figure out what I got so guys that's a uh training day for
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me right uh I may do this rundown one more time cuz I want to get another time and start like kind of building up an
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idea of where I'm at with it uh it is a fun exercise highly recommended same with doubles um but like I said I I like
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to really hone in on like mistakes that I make on a on a normal basis or that I know about that way I can kind of
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correct them like you guys saw at the beginning of the video video on uh with the paral and stuff which I highly
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recommend if you have the the actual partial contrs where you can spray paint them i' I'd do that but I worked with
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what I had for today and um and honestly really good training day I'm pretty happy with it overall in the sense of
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like what I accomplished I'm not happy with my performance fully um because I I know I could do better and I probably do
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this this thing faster I could definitely do my transitions a little bit better than that um but hey that's
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what I got today and hopefully this was educational um I'm not saying set yourself up like this and do this exact
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thing on your training days um I want you to focus on what you suck at man and if you don't know then I would get into
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a match go explore things um even if you discover them in a class or when you're shooting with your buddies you find
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something that you suck at write it down so then you have something to train and that way you can you can kind of work on it um my last match I had trouble
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partials I I messed up so many partials that I was like okay that's definitely a weak spot uh let me go and actually
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practice them so it just so happens that I wanted to shoot rifle today so I did them with rifle and probably tomorrow do
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him with pistol so hopefully that's uh educational and if you have any questions comments
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concerns whatevers U put them down below man and I'll uh try and get to them take care guys
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