Some shooting practice...

We-- Sabumnim and I went out to the range today for some "last minute" practice before the set up for the Area 3 match begins.

We worked on some movement drills between two shooting boxes. The drill is, starting inside the first shooting box, draw, put one shot on a silhouette target, move to a second box and put one shot on a silhouette from the new shooting position. Sounds easy right? Well, that's because in theory it really is easy. We were working on doing it efficiently though, and that's a little harder. For me, the hard part is to remember to keep moving. I'm not supposed to stand there and shoot. As soon as one foot is in the shooting area and the other one is off the ground, the shot can be made.

I did a lot of bad-Kung-Fu-movie posing with one foot of the ground. When we moved it up the two shots per shooting area I was taking both shots standing on one leg. This is why we practice I suppose.

A second drill involved shooting while moving. This is one of the things we've been working on really hard lately, is shooting on the move. I have gotten better since we started, but I am still not confident enough with it to try in competition. In this drill we took four shots at a target while backing up, reloaded, and took four shots at a second target while walking forward.

Um. My reloads were good?

At the end we did a "modified" Bill Drill. I was supposed to draw and put six shots on the paper as fast as I could (the target was REALLY close). A normal Bill Drill is six shots in the A zone, a little harder. My fastest was draw and six shots in 2.44 seconds. Actually not too bad. We did three rounds of this, of the 18 rounds, only 5 landed outside the A zone and all of them made it on the paper.

They keep telling me I could shoot faster.

Last order of business for the day was working on my silhouette for my dorm room in college. I started saying last summer that I wanted to just absolutely destroy the center A of a target to hang on my wall, and now we're working on it. I'm all thrilled about that-- it's going to so cool!