Category: Training Drills

Pistol to Rifle Transition

Pistol to Rifle Transition Drill (Staged)

Action Gunner January 10, 2024

One of the easiest areas to recover wasted time on a stage is with our transitions between firearms. This drill focuses specifically on transitioning from a pistol to your rifle utilizing as much efficiency as possible – with practice, you’ll be simultaneously dumping your pistol (safely) with one hand while the other is already working to bring your rifle into a usable position. Note that this drill focuses specifically on staged rifles as you would

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MantisX Dryfire Training

The Best Dry Fire Training Systems of 2025

Shawn Nelson July 12, 2023

Your competition gun, a shot timer, and honest self-assessment will always be the foundation. Here’s how the gear stacks up when you’re ready to add to your toolkit. Let’s get something straight before we dive in: you don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars on fancy electronics to get better at shooting. The world’s best competitive shooters built their skills with an unloaded gun, a timer, and scaled targets taped to a wall. That hasn’t

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Triangle Drill (Pistol)

Nathan Payne February 28, 2017

Materials: Shooters Boxes (3) Auto Poppers (2-6” Colt Speed Plates; 1-Skinny Sammy) Amendments: Shooters Boxes can be substituted with anything to mark a position (Cones, stakes, paint).  Shooters Boxes are ideal for some of the focal points of the drill. Set-Up: Set the Auto Poppers at the back of the bay and roughly 15 to 20 yards apart. Center the Skinny Sammy between the Auto Poppers. Set a Shooters Box 10 to 15 yards up

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