Setup Notes:
This drill only requires a blank wall. You should not use a target for this exercise. Do not aim at a particular spot on the wall, just practice aligning the sights.
Procedure:
Draw your pistol, get a sight picture on the wall, and break the trigger without disturbing that sight alignment.
Alternate start positions between all common variations.
Note: Do not engage a specific spot on the wall. It is counterproductive to this drill to have any sort of target. The idea is to get a sight picture against the blank canvas of the wall.
Focus:
Perfect your ability to shoot accurately with a time limit.
Goal:
Learn to “take your time in a hurry.” Have the ability to break the trigger accurately at speed. Your goal par time is 1.2 seconds.
Micro Drill:
Start with your pistol aimed at the target with a perfectly refined sight picture and your finger just touching the trigger (trigger not “prepped”). At the signal, press the trigger as fast as you can. Attempt to finish the trigger press before the end of the start beep. You don’t need to set the par time for this drill, you are just using the start beep as your “par time.”
Your goal is to keep the sights as stable as possible while you press the trigger.
Commentary:
This drill is designed to make you strive for a perfect trigger press while under severe time restraints. This will help with learning to hit long shots under match pressure, as well as helping you refine your grip.
I want to draw your attention to a few things in the procedure to make sure they are clearly understood. You need to get a sight picture on the wall, then break the trigger without disturbing the sight picture. It doesn’t say you need a perfect sight picture, you just need a sight picture. The reality is that in practical shooting there usually isn’t time to make things truly perfect. The par time for this drill is set so that you have time to make things really good, but perhaps not the perfect sight picture that people may want to wait for.
The really important element in the procedure is learning to break the trigger without disturbing what sight picture you do have. That is really the tricky part. The important thing to bring to this drill from
Gary Hybridge 