What does /k/ think of my personal pistol training program? My father had me start this shit at like 14 years old. I do the home drills weekly, and live fire drills every month or so. I used to do it a whole lot more, but with school and work, I just don't have the time.

Home drills: Place thumb tack, sticker, or small object on wall. Grab DA pistol and place a dummy round in it. Proceed, standing, kneeling, or sitting, to focus on breathing and trigger control. Pull the trigger, watch what your hands do, where the sights might move if at all. Pull the trigger until it resets, then do it again, and again, and again. Just you, the gun, and the target are basically all that exist while doing this.

Live fire: Imagine the same target on the paper. Aim where you want to aim, and then pull the trigger, relaxing after every reset. Ignore the recoil, pretend it doesn't exist. Keep doing this over and over.

Live fire step 2 (the one I usually start with). Going with a friend, have them load up the magazines with a mix of live rounds and dummies. Without knowing what's there, draw, fire 3 rounds, holster. If there is a dummy in between, clear it and fire until 3 rounds hit the paper, and then holster it again. There don't have to be dummies in some magazines, the biggest point isn't to expect a dummy, but to react to a f2f immediately as a reflex. We eventually moved onto doing mozambique drills along with this, though I generally just put 3 in center of available mass these days. When I say friend, it was always my father who would do this with me. I don't really have any range buddies out here...

-cont