One Hand Is Holding Something
Dry-Fire · At Home
Verified clear, dummy rounds. Hold a bag in your support hand and clear a stoppage with the strong hand only: tap the magazine on your leg and rack the slide using your belt or the edge of a table. Ten reps. Then drop the bag and clear it with two hands, ten reps. Decide which one before each rep.
Live-Fire · At the Range
Twenty rounds at 7 yards with dummy rounds mixed in by someone else. Fire two-round strings on the cards and clear every other stoppage one-handed.
Service Pistol
Work it with a flashlight in the support hand.
Concealed Carry
You will be carrying packages for the rest of the month. Know both answers.
Carbine
A one-handed carbine clearance needs the sling. Brace the stock and work the charging handle.
AUX (when ready): one-handed clearance back on target in under five seconds.
Most of the time the right answer is to drop what you are holding. Practice the times it is not.
Your Daily Callout — By Archetype
Dropping the bag is the quick answer. Make sure you also know the slow one.
Decide before the rep which problem you are solving.
The thing in your other hand might be a person.
There are two methods. Know which situation calls for which.
Layer: clear one stoppage from kneeling.
- 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.