Quick Draw shooting

[ColMike]

Yesterday down in Enterprise Alabama, Lock N Load guns shop and range hosted a customer appreciation day. We took a mobile "quick draw" range to provide some entertainment. Two targets on one timer, instant win/lose and elapsed time. Once the targets are "set" there is a 2-5 second delay before they go active. When the light comes on you draw and fire. Must hit the target which is about 10 feet from the line. There are several techniques for this shooting event but I use it as a first round training device for my cowboy action shooting. I started out a few weeks ago in the hi 1 second times 1.8, etc. I am down to routinely .6xx -.7xx now and my best score yesterday was .653 seconds in full draw. That's pretty quick for an old guy. While not part of an official match, we allowed semiautos with modern holsters to shoot. The fastest times were around .49x but they didn't to cock the weapon.

Here's the setup with me running the range and two young guys using the lean back and shoot from the hip technique. It looks odd but works for this sport. I don't use it. Counter productive for what I'm trying to do.



It was a good day and lots of fun but provided some real eye openers. A store employee toting a PM9 tried 5 times and never hit the target! And she's got a better chance of shooting herself or a bystander than a perp. One guy trying to go way fast missed shooting himself in the thigh by about 6 inches. Some of these people carrying weapons are really dangerous.

OH, forgot to tell you. We use wax bullets, and the propellant is a 209 primer in the 45LC cartridge. some cases are not drilled to accept a large primer and use the normal primer as a propellant. There were some other pics taken and IF I can get ahold of them, I'll post them as an update.

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