Avoid, Leave, and Only Then Everything Else
Dry-Fire · At Home
No gun today. Write down three places or situations you could simply stop going to, or leave earlier than you do. Then write down, for the three places you spend the most time, how you would leave each one if you had to go right now. Avoiding a problem and leaving a problem are skills, and they are used far more often than shooting.
Live-Fire · At the Range
Optional twenty rounds, slow fire, on whatever gave you the most trouble this week. If you would rather take the day, take it.
Service Pistol
On duty you often cannot leave. Off duty you can, and you should.
Concealed Carry
Carrying a gun means you should be the first person to walk away from an argument.
Carbine
No carbine work today.
The written page is the deliverable today. Keep it with the one from October.
Mental conditioning day. The best outcome is the one where nothing happens.
Your Daily Callout — By Archetype
Leaving will feel like losing to you. It is the win.
You usually see trouble early. Give yourself permission to act on it early and go.
Getting your people out is the job. Everything else is what you do when you cannot.
Write the exits down now and you will not need to work them out later.
- 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.