Reloads: Slide Lock
Dry-Fire · At Home
15 emergency reloads with verified-empty mags: gun high in your workspace, eyes on the world, hands working blind. End every rep back on a card with a clean break.
Live-Fire · At the Range
5 strings: 2 rds card A, slide locks (load mags two-and-two), reload, 2 rds card B at 7 yd. The reload isn't finished until the next shot is a hit.
Service Pistol
Mag pouches where they actually ride on your belt — index them without looking.
Concealed Carry
Reload from where your spare ACTUALLY lives. The pocket counts. Train the pocket.
Carbine
Bolt locks back: stripper-grip from the pouch, support-hand release, back on target.
AUX (when ready): slide-lock reload to a hit under 3.0s.
Train the gun you carry, not the gun you wish you carried.
Your Daily Callout — By Archetype
A fast reload that ends in a miss didn't happen. Hit first, then call it fast.
Eyes stay in the fight, not in the magwell. Feel the reload, watch the world.
Empty gun, people behind you — this is a skill you owe them, not yourself.
Stage your mags the same way every session. Setup consistency buys free speed.
Core manipulation. Eyes-out, workspace-high — the reload pattern everything builds on.
- Treat every firearm as if it is loaded — always, no matter what you think you know.
- Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
- Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you have decided to fire.
- Be sure of your target — and everything beyond it.
Dry-fire: no ammunition in the room. Verify the firearm is clear — twice. Use a safe backstop. When you finish, say it out loud: “Dry fire is over.”
The Four Universal Safety Rules
Non-negotiable. Every drill, every rep, every time. This applies to live fire and dry fire.
- Treat every firearm as if it is loaded — always, no matter what you think you know.
- Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
- Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you have decided to fire.
- Be sure of your target — and everything beyond it.