How To Structure a livefire Session

When building and implementing a training program for performance shooting you will most likely use a system that incorporates what is referred to as a “live fire dryfire loop”. This methodology of training uses live fire to confirm that one’s dry fire training has been correct as well as to identify what skills one would need to work on in dryfire going forward. For example, the last two weeks you have been working on drawing and indexing the gun on target in a reasonably quick time. You are able to draw your gun while looking at a small spot on the target and as soon as the gun comes up to your eyeline your sight appears over the spot on the target you’re looking at. So while at the range you do this with live ammunition only to find your impacts on the target are not where you would like them. This is most likely a “grip” issue and will need to be worked out in dryfire. So instead of using ammunition to correct this issue on the range, we would make a note to work this later in dryfire and save our ammunition for other things that require live ammo. So I would structure a live fire session like this. I would choose one or two drills that I have been working on in dryfire in order to confirm my training has been correct. I then would choose one or two drills such as “doubles drill” or “practical accuracy drill” that require a significant amount of ammunition to perform. Drills such as these require live ammunition in order to work such skills such as recoil management, predictive and reactive aiming, as well as the different levels of sight confirmation. So I was to go to the range today to get in a live fire training session and I’m bringing three hundred rounds I’m going to use one hundred of those rounds to confirm my dryfire practice skills that I’ve been working on and the other two hundred are going to be used to shoot drills that require a lot of live ammo such as the ones previously discussed.