Fix It or Feed It
Dry-Fire · At Home
Verified clear, dummy rounds and empty magazines. Have a partner hand you the gun set up one of two ways: slide forward on a dummy round, or slide locked back on an empty magazine. Without looking, tell which it is by feel and respond with a tap and rack or with a reload. Twenty reps.
Live-Fire · At the Range
Twenty-five rounds at 7 yards with dummy rounds mixed in and magazines loaded to different counts by someone else. Shoot two-round strings on the cards and solve whatever the gun gives you.
Service Pistol
Work this in duty gear, with reloads coming from your pouches.
Concealed Carry
With one spare magazine, the decision is simple. Know it before you need it.
Carbine
Carbine version: a bolt that is forward gets a tap and rack, and a bolt that is locked back gets a reload.
AUX (when ready): the correct response every time, completed in under three seconds.
The gun tells you what it needs if you know what each problem feels like.
Your Daily Callout — By Archetype
Feel for it first and then act. A wrong fix done fast is slower than the right one.
Your hands can read the gun while your eyes stay on the room.
A gun that stops with people behind you has to be running again quickly.
There are two conditions and two responses. Keep it that simple.
Layer: solve it while moving to cover.
- 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.