Finally got to the range today. Here is my range report.
Goals:
#1. Put some lead downrange. It’s been way too long since I’ve fired a live round. I’m embarrassed to say how long.
#2. Assess myself for combat accuracy and shoot combat accurately. Do this by focusing on stance, grip, sight alignment, and trigger press.
Results:
Below is the good, the bad, and the ugly (not in that order). All targets are printed on 8.5 x 11 paper because I’m cheap.
Drill #1: the 10-10-10 drill. Goal of 10 rounds shot from 10 yards in 10 seconds. I don’t have a shot timer, so I video myself with my iPhone. I probably wasn’t within 10 seconds on every target. But close. Again, without a shot timer, my start was in the “cheating” category.
Shot first with the Shield 9mm because I’m carrying that most often these days. So it was the 9-10-10 drill due to capacity. Results were not great.
Shot it second with the Glock 19. Better.
Same drill again with the Shield a couple of times.
Drill #2 shooting with the Shield around a barrier as if pieing a doorway. Thankfully, there was a spare target stand on the range. I didn’t measure this distance. Likely 5-7 yards. Shield.
Drill #3 Shooting while walking to the target from about 10 yards to point blank range. Shot with Glock.
Drill # 3 T Rex Arms with Glock 19 from 5 yards. Drill 3a was fire one round, reload, fire 2nd round. Drill 3b was shoot the circles in sequence. I obviously shot low on circle 3. I’m guessing I anticipated recoil here. (Noticed myself doing that a time or two.)
Drill #4 T Rex Arms again. Shooting 4 rounds center target at 5 yards with the Shield. Had one round go right. I’m pretty sure that’s two rounds on top of each other by the letter “R.”
Drill #5 same T Rex Arms target, but shooting the outside circles with the rounds as marked.
Ran the same drill again with a bit better results.
Final drill. Another T Rex Arms target. Shot with Glock 19 from 7 yards. The miss in the middle is from the largest circle in the top right. Again, no timer, so I don’t know what my time was. At this point, I was no longer videoing myself. I slowed down considerable on the smaller two circles after the miss on the bigger circle. I shot these circles in order of largest to smallest.
Total round count was probably somewhere north of 125 rounds. I shot a target or two that I forgot to snap a picture of. Forgot to change the target once so I didn’t take a picture of that target.
Lessons from today.
#1. It’s been too long since I shot last. However, there is still some combat accuracy remaining. I wouldn’t put this in the great category, but I wouldn’t put it in the terrible category. Considering that this is all 8.5 x 11 paper, every shot was combat accurate and center mass, maybe not the best possible center mass, but I didn’t hit any innocent bystanders with today’s shooting.
#2. I need to work on physical fitness. Namely, I have grip strengtheners that have been collecting dust. Time to dust them off and use them. My forearm muscles reminded me today that I need to do that.
#3. I am not quick to acquire a target coming out of the holster, especially on the smaller targets. Center of mass on a man sized target, I would probably (isn’t that a great word to use when talking about a life threatening situation?) be ok. I need to get more time in behind the SIRT.
#4. I need to remember all gear when going to the range. Forgot the holster for the Glock 19. So I couldn’t work on holster work with that gun.
Goals for next range trip:
#1. Shoot at longer distances. The range I was using maxes out at about 12 yards or so. It’s probably technically 15 yards, but the grade is a little uphill and setting the target at the backstop doesn’t work great due to the incline. I was lazy and didn’t want to carry my gear to the longer range.
#2. Get in some offhand shooting. I usually do that, but this was a relatively quick trip to the range so I didn’t get everything in I would normally do.
#3. Add magazine changes to the shooting and moving.
