Dry Practice Ep. 7

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Dry Practice Ep. 7. Episode 7 is about transitions. Target transitions can be difficult if you have been doing them wrong or in an inefficient manner. Enjoy.

hey what's up guys so welcome to episode

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7 now episode 7 is going to be about

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designated Target or really transitions

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so transitioning from Target to Target

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and what you can get out of this and how

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you can kind of accomplish doing this in

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an efficient manner is pretty important

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now what what I would uh suggest right

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is one you need to move your eyes to

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where you want the gun to meet you right

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if you don't move your eyes to where you

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want the gun to meet you and you try to

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track the dot the entire way uh with

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your vision uh you will fail at doing

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this almost every time but if you don't

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believe me go ahead take your finger

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right now point at an object in your

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house and then try to find another

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object that you want to go and point at

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and then bring your finger to it and

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you'll notice your finger comes right to

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your eyes your gun will do the same

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thing with a little bit of practice

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practice because it is the same

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skill if you don't believe me and you

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want to stare at that same thing put

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your finger on it and then watch your

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finger as you try to bring it across and

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you will see you will have to make minor

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Corrections or major Corrections

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depending on how fast you moved your

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hand or whatever you did uh to correct

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that and that is how you don't want to

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transition targets now if you don't know

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if you are or you aren't doing that you

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will see it if you pay attention enough

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on your situ on on your Target as you

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shoot not saying you need bullet holes

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to tell you cuz that that's just

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historic data but your Red Dot when it

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comes across a Target if it passes a

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Target like this and comes back and then

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you go through the shooting process

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you've gone too far and you're probably

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looking at your sighting system or

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paying attention to your sighting system

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I should say versus if your gun comes

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across and it stops right where your

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eyes are looking then you will see that

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that is 100% % like that's where your

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eyes were and your gun met where your

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eyes were and it all happened

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beautifully and you could press shots

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from there so that is one of the things

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we're going to practice with this

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exercise now a way to set this up is

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just to set up a couple targets like

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this or actually set up designated

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Target which is another exercise that is

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really fun if you want to look up

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designated Target go ahead and Google

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that thing there's tons of videos on it

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as well as obviously diagrams and things

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like that it comes from the Practical

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shooting world as well and it is a a

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really really fun exercise and you can

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honestly do it with anything so if I

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have cardboard targets like these I can

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do that or I can actually do it with

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random objects inside a hotel room or

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pieces of tape around a room just spre

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spread them out space them out if you

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want to change elevations to them and

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stuff you can it is a blasty blast so

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you get to really play around with it

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now designated Target is one of those

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exercises that I'm going to do on a

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regular basis because it works a a lot

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of my vision stuff which is very

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important so I can include my draw into

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it which is very important we can see

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that in previous episodes of this you

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can also incorporate trigger presses

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which will also tell you whether your

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grip was good on each Target and it also

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starts to give you a healthy idea on how

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fast or how slow I need to be based off

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Target size or Target distance in depth

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and you can really play around with this

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on the Range it's very simple to set up

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and you could really do so many reps

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with this thing so I'm going to show you

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guys uh a couple examples of it and just

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using the targets I have set up from uh

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previous times that I just moved them

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around and uh and we're going to go

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ahead and hopefully I'll show you guys

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what it looks like I'm going to use a

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laser so you guys can see where my DOT

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is stopping and good and bad stuff

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versus the Red Dot through this the

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camera because I can't turn the camera

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to each Target at the same time as I'm

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turning the gun it's a little hard so

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what you'll need for this exercise is

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pretty simple your unloaded

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Blaster a weighted dummy uh I honestly

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you could use just an empty gun but I

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like using a MAG with weighted dummy

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rounds so that'll be in there and if you

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have a Glock and you want to shim it

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which is one of the previous episodes

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you could go back and look at that you

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want to shim it you could take a piece

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of paper and shim the Glock so you can

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get multiple presses out of it which is

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recommended

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so let me change the camera around and

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uh help you guys out all right guys so

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what you see and what you're going to

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see is we have a Target that's a little

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bit closer we have this one we have this

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one we have this one and we have this

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one now to do designated Target uh you

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could obviously change them to partials

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and use um smaller targets or bigger

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targets or steel related targets and

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stuff like that but for this exercise

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we're just going to we're we're just

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going to use what we have right now now

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designated Target or using designated

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Target means that I'm going to designate

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one of these targets that I want to

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shoot first and and then after I shoot

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another I'm going to come back and shoot

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that one again and eventually when the

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array is done I will be finishing off on

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it so for example if I use the far-left

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one far-left target here as my

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designated Target then it should look

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something like this I'm coming up here

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bam coming back bam coming back going

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over coming

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back all right and that would be like a

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designated Target array right however

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you want to do it it doesn't matter you

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can start on any Target but e eventually

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you will be shooting that Target in

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between every other Target and before

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you start the array and at the end of

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the array so either way when practicing

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any kind of transitions like I said

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we're going to put our eyes there first

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so no matter how fast I want to do it

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let's say I want to do two on each of

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these papers I I will end up doing the

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same thing going up getting my two

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presses moving

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over right and the dot arrived

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everywhere I put my eyes if the dot

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isn't arriving where you're putting your

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eyes you're probably watching it so for

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example if you watched me move the laser

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around like that well you may have not

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been able to keep up with what I was

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doing but if you just looked at the next

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Target that I you knew was going to go

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to based off the first example you would

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actually see the dot arrive exactly

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where you want it versus the other way

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around where you just see it swiping

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across swiping across so let me show you

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how not to do

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it now as you can see on that one

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there's a lot of hesitation cuz I'm

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doing it wrong which bothers me but

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either way there was a lot of like

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back or past the Target and then going

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into it so it went from one target to

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another Target past it and had to go

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into it before I could shoot that is not

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the way I want to practice this if

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you're not seeing the difference between

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them right now you are probably still at

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a level that you need to start working

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on just standard previous exercises

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before this one and I know that's that

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may hurt your feelings or whatever but

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you need to be realistic about your

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ability to do certain things you can't

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just imagine or be magically good at

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something you need to put in the time if

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you're only doing this once a week

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you're not going to have enough you're

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not going to have enough skill for this

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you need to put in more time in your

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practice to actually be good at it not

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just that but you need to put your eyes

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where you want them right where you want

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the dot to go not follow the dang dot

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you're not a cat okay don't follow the

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dot so that is just an example of

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Transitions and Target arrays uh or just

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a Target array and doing a designated

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Target exercise it is not rocket science

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at all it is honestly just super easy

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movement of the gun but a lot of people

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complicate it because they're looking at

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the actual dot on the the The Optic

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versus looking at the actual Target so

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look at the dang Target all right so

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hopefully this helps guys if you need

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anything put it down below take care