New Year's Eve: The Year in One Session
Dry-Fire · At Home
Verified clear. Run three full sequences that use the year's work: draw from concealment, two presses, a reload, a stoppage clearance, two more presses, a look around, and a slow reholster. Film one of them and compare it with your earliest clip. Tonight, stay off the roads late if you can, and remember that a bullet fired into the air comes down somewhere.
Live-Fire · At the Range
Twenty-five rounds at 7 and 10 yards on the Bull, combining the draw, a reload, and a stoppage, with dummy rounds mixed in by someone else. Score the hits. Tomorrow is the benchmark.
Service Pistol
If you are working tonight, it is one of the hardest shifts of the year. Be careful out there.
Concealed Carry
If you are going out tonight and drinking, the gun stays home, locked up.
Carbine
Carbine version: mount, two rounds, bolt lock, reload, and two more at 25 yards.
AUX (when ready): the full sequence with every hit accounted for in under twenty seconds.
Compare tonight's film with the first one you made. That is your year.
Your Daily Callout — By Archetype
You came in wanting speed. Look at how much cleaner it is now.
The film shows what changed. Watch it before you decide how the year went.
You are more capable tonight than you were on your first day. That matters to the people around you.
Tomorrow is the benchmark and a new log. Set out the gear tonight.
Layer: run one sequence in low light.
- 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.