Shopping Season
Dry-Fire · At Home
No gun for the first part. On your next trip to a store, find the exits other than the one you came in by, including the stockroom and the garden center. Notice where you park and what you will be carrying when you walk back. Then at home, verified clear, run fifteen presentations with a partner standing behind you calling quadrants, mixing in the call exit, which means you move and do not draw.
Live-Fire · At the Range
Twenty rounds at 7 yards on the quadrants with a caller. Fire two rounds on each valid quadrant call and nothing on an invalid call or on exit.
Service Pistol
Off-duty in a crowded store, your first job is being a good witness and getting your family out.
Concealed Carry
A crowded store is a place to leave, not a place to shoot. Know the back way out.
Carbine
No carbine role here. Run the calls from low ready at 25 yards.
AUX (when ready): ten straight correct responses, including every exit call.
Every store has a back door. Most people never look for it.
Your Daily Callout — By Archetype
You head toward the noise. In a store, head toward the exit.
Count the exits on the way in. It takes ten seconds.
Tell your family where to meet if you get separated. Do it in the car before you go in.
Park near the exit of the lot rather than near the door of the store.
Layer: the caller gives exit in the middle of a string.
- 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.