Hands Full
Dry-Fire · At Home
Verified clear. Hold a grocery bag or a box in your support hand. Ten reps of letting go of it, stepping to the side, drawing, and pressing twice on a card. Then ten reps where you keep hold of it and shoot strong hand only. Decide which you are doing before each rep starts.
Live-Fire · At the Range
Twenty rounds at 7 yards in five strings: drop a soft object from your support hand, draw or come up from ready, and fire two rounds on card A and two on card B.
Service Pistol
A clipboard, a flashlight, or a coffee cup counts. Whatever is usually in your hand is what you train with.
Concealed Carry
This is the holiday season, so your hands will be full for the next six weeks.
Carbine
Carbine version: start with one hand off the rifle holding an object, then drop it and mount.
AUX (when ready): drop, draw, and two hits in under three seconds.
Nothing you are carrying is worth holding onto. Decide now that you will drop it.
Your Daily Callout — By Archetype
Dropping the bag takes no thought for you. Practice the hits that come after.
Notice which hand you carry things in. It should not be your gun hand.
Bags can be dropped. A child's hand cannot, which is what the strong-hand reps are for.
Make a rule that your gun hand stays empty whenever you walk to the car.
Layer: keep hold of the object and fire the whole string strong hand only.
- 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.