RANGE PLAN - HAVE ONE

FAILING TO PLAN IS…..SOMETHING TO SOMETHING

I forget the rest but the point is we should have a plan when we train.

Ammo is too expensive to just throw projectiles into the berm. When I go to the range, I want to have an agenda and a goal.

For me, most range sessions start out with some drill, qual, or CoF shot cold. This is my bench mark for the day and will often dictate what I’m going to work on for the rest of the time on the range. If my accuracy was garbage, I might be shooting 25m slow fire on a bullseye for most of my practice. Fumble clearing a cover garment on the draw? Guess I’m going to focus largely on courses of fire that require shooting from concealment. Over drive the gun on a target-to-target transition? Suck shooting on the move? You get the idea.

I keep all the drills in half-sheet document protectors clipped with a cheap carbineer but if you want to be fancy you can use something like a Flight Crew Checklist binder. These drills live in my range bag and are what I use for a lot of my flat range training.