Summary: Rhythm means performing a sequence of steps correctly and in the right order at a particular speed. This exercise builds your ability shoot correctly at faster and faster speeds.
Target: PractiMini @ 5 to 10 yards depending on your skill (this needs legal sized paper)
Rounds: 88 minimum, 100 or more with retries
Procedure:
Not sure about rhythm speeds? Here is 4 shots a second, 3 shots a second, 2 shots a second, and 1 shot a second.
First rhythm: 1 shot per second, 4 shots, 4 times – 16 rounds
End on target with trigger prepped
Exaggerate your follow-thru, then finger off, lower.
Do not advance to faster rhythms if you are not getting 100% A zone hits. Instead, think about what step you are doing wrong (for instance Letting Recoil Happen), or are doing out of order (example: recovering gun before trigger pull is complete).
Second rhythm: 2 shots per second, 4 shots, 4 times – 16 rounds
End on target with trigger prepped
Exaggerate your follow-thru, then finger off, lower.
Not more than 2 Charlies? Let’s keep going. if not, what is not being done right or out of order?
Third rhythm: 3 shots per second, 6 shots, 4 times – 24 rounds
End on target with trigger prepped
Exaggerate your follow-thru, then finger off, lower.
You should have mostly alphas here as well, 1 charlie per string, or figure it out.
Final rhythm: 4 to 5 shots per second, 8 shots, 4 times – 32 rounds
End on target with trigger prepped
Exaggerate your follow-thru, then finger off, lower.
Welcome to roughly the speed of a gunfight. At this pace you should still have 1 or 0 Charlies per string and zero Deltas or off paper hits. If you do, you know what to do… go back a rhythm figure out what you are doing wrong or out of order, and work your way back up. If you notice your grip slipping as you get to 8 rounds… figure that out before coming back to this exercise.
Variants:
If you can’t (or don’t want to) print on legal sized paper then any of the rectangle targets at our Printable Targets page will suffice. Since they do not have scoring zones… do it form 7 yard and treat out of the rectangle as a C hit.
Notes:
This exercise can burn ammo if you aren’t careful. Pay attention to your hits. Shoot with awareness. Visualize and dry fire the rhythms prior to live fire. If you had C or worse hits remember what you did to get As and try doing that more!
We recommend this be in the middle of a practice. Do not end with it. We prefer to end with a 100% attention on doing this right, that usually means grouping fire or dots of some kind.
