Drills for the Public Range
Check out this link to an article by Andy Kemp (of the Midwest Training Group)
from the December 1999 issue of
Combat Handguns
http://www.midwesttraininggroup.net/Documents/DrillsForPublicRange.pdf
When shooting at a public range that has restrictions, just work within the rules and practice whatever you can. If they don't let you work from the holster, then begin from low ready. If they don't let you shoot "rapid fire" then shoot at a "timed fire" pace (traditionally 5 rounds in 20 seconds) at reduced scale targets or at targets at a distance. Focus on proper grip, sight picture/sight alignment and follow through.
The suggestion from another poster to use an airsoft gun for developing some of these skills is a point well taken. Get a quality airsoft gun that matches the gun you intend to use -- you can set up IDPA or IPSC type stages in your basement and shoot all you want. I shoot both IDPA & IPSC a little bit and several of my shooting buddies bought quality airsoft guns (Glocks) last fall and shot them all winter in the basement & the garage and were quite happy with the result.
There are a bunch of recent books that you may also find useful:
THE SHOOTER'S APPROACH TO PRACTICE by Sam Conway (available at
www.uspsa.org). Conway is an IDPA and IPSC shooter who works as an instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
PERFECT PRACTICE and THINKING PRACTICAL SHOOTING by Saul Kirsch (available at
www.DoubleAlpha.biz) Kirsch is a European IPSC shooter who also teaches at a school called the DoubleAlpha Academy.
The focus of both books is specific to markmanship in the competitive shooting environment. There is no discussion of tactics or legal issues relevant to the defensive use of deadly force. Still, to a large degree, dynamic shooting is dynamic shooting, and both books offer a large number of drills that would be useful to anyone wishing to build up their marksmanship skills.
Many new shooters quickly reach a plateau where they stall out in their skill development because they don't know how to practice or what to practice. Both of these books offer a wide variety of exercises intended to help the shooter increase their marksmanship skills. Defensive shooters may have to read with a critical eye and discard those portions of the book that are ONLY relevant to competition. Keeping that limitation in mind, there's a lot of good information here that you can use to keep your personal training program interesting.
(If you order the PERFECT PRACTICE book, it comes to you from Holland and your charge card gets billed in euros. I love e-commerce!)
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IPSC shooter Steve Anderson has two very useful books (which are available from
www.andersonshooting.com)
The drills in both books can either be conducted as dry fire drills or as live fire practice sessions.
REFINEMENT & REPETITIONS: DRY FIRE SKILLS FOR DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT
PRINCIPLES OF PERFECTION: REFINEMENT & REPETITION II (this book actually isn't out yet)