What would be ideal practice, and short of ideal, what kind of practice/drills etc do you do?
I got into IDPA a few months ago, and feel really lucky to belong to a club with an IDPA chapter and a set of action ranges that I can use for practice when they're not being used for matches. Another one of the members and I have started practicing drills and IDPA stuff together, and I feel lucky for that too because I get a lot more out of doing this stuff with someone else (almost like working out and having a spotter/partner vs doing it solo).
My practice partner went so far as to buy a timer, and between that and stuff we've managed to pull out of the trash after matches, we can setup and go through our own stages as much as we want. The club provides target stands, barricades and barrels, 1x2's for holding IDPA style targets, and a bunch of steel plate targets. We pulled a bunch of unused pasters and some not-too-badly- shotup targets from the trash, and we were set.
So, what kind of drills and practice do you or would you do if you could? For starters we've been doing the IDPA classifier stages and drills. What else are good skills to practice? In no particular order,...
-practice parts of the classifier :
-draw and doubletap followed by headshot
-practice "slicing the pie" around windows/barriers while engaging targets
-practice strong- and weak-hand only shooting at least once or twice per session
-dryfire exercise for wheeelguns: empty your revolver. Hold in strong hand, and place a quarter on the topstrap or on top of the barrel if there's room. Pull of 25 double-action trigger pulls, without dropping the quarter. After enough time (days/weeks) and your wrist strength has gotten better, replace the quarter with a dime. Repeat.
Any particular skills or drills you do or recommend for self-improvement?
