Draw or paste five inch targets on paper or cardboard. Place the target five yards away. From either the low or high ready position, shoot five shots in the circle. All shots must be inside the circle, or break the line of the circle. This drill is best performed with a shot timer, but can be done with a stopwatch – the time standard is 5.0 seconds or less. You are proficient at this drill if you can repeat this five times in a row without a miss.

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This drill is a good drill for a number of reasons. For someone to be able to complete this drill consistently, they will likely have to be proficient in all of the fundamentals of pistol shooting (take our Pistol I class if you don’t know these). The Fives Drill will also help you determine if you have a gun that you can comfortably and competently handle. If you are unable to complete this drill successfully, increase the size of the circle to six inches, and the time standard to six seconds. Once you can complete the Fives Drill successfully on a regular basis, attempt to do the drill from a holster (if you are qualified and allowed to do so).

Tip – get a good follow-thru after each shot, and don’t break the trigger until you know that you have a good sight picture each time.

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This drill isn’t ‘fancy’ or necessarily ‘fun’… but this week we are featuring this classic drill because too many people often overlook its importance.  What is the drill exactly?  It’s just like it sounds, fire one shot on one dot.

From the high or low ready position, smoothly present the gun to the target, obtain proper sight picture, smoothly pull trigger, reacquire sight picture, remove finger from trigger, return to ready position.

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 If you have taken some of our classes, you’ll notice that we often start off with this drill.  We do this because it’s a great drill to reinforce all the fundamentals in a slow and controlled manner.  This drill also gives us many repetitions on the most important shot – the first shot.  You will find this particularly helpful if you have a double action only, or double action/single action pistol.  If your gun has a double action, you should be decocking after each shot.  Unless you are testing yourself ‘cold’, this is a great drill for everyone to warm up with.  The ‘One Shot on One Dot’ drill will help you learn, or reinforce, the fundamentals – one shot at a time.  It’s also a great drill for conserving ammunition while getting in good practice on something useful!

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