You train to be accurate by going as fast as you can as often as you can. Accuracy is acquired by committing your finalized draw to the subconscious. You do that by speed training. If you shoot from the frontal lobe for any reason, whether it is because you thinking or trying to change your draw you will be inaccurate and slow.
Finalized Draw: You will not be an accurate shooter until you have finalized your draw. By that I mean you draw your gun to the same anchor point, hopefully to the same stable position, and fire. Each draw is identical to the previous draw. The bullet hits the same location every time, whether on the target or not. If you are missing with a finalized draw, it is not a accuracy problem but an alignment problem (See earlier post on alignment). You finalize your draw by repetition. Any change to your draw requires you to refinalize your draw. That is why grailfever is so devastating to a gunslinger. If you are constantly changing your draw to gain that last millisecond, you will never have a finalized draw and will be relegated to boot hill rather quickly in competition.
Stop practicing missing: Every shot is an opportunity to store information in your subconscious. The mind and body is a marvelous thing. If given an opportunity, it will without any effort on your part, store information in the subconscious, but you have to give it the opportunity by letting it see the exact location of every hit. If a shooter is hitting 30% on the light at 21 feet, he gets 15 opportunities in a fifty shot practice session. If the same shooter is shooting at 5 feet with his target height marked on the target, he probably gets 50 opportunities to store information in his subconscious, all while going as fast as he can. Don't practice slow shooting. Why waste that wax! When I see a quick shooter slow shoot I always think, hope he or she gets beat on time, that will teach them to believe in myths. The truth is that your quickest draw is your most accurate!
Speed drills for accuracy:
Shoot on cardboard off the light at 6 feet at your target height (two lines 6 inches apart at appropriate height). Go as fast as you can. It is a speed drill. You are finalizing your draw at the fastest possible speed. Trying to go slow teaches you nothing. It screws up draw. You don't have to worry about accuracy. Your body and mind with do that for you. You will find that you move to 100% by the end of the drill without any conscious effort. That is the point. Commit that accurate draw to the subconscious.
If you have a training partner try the Shady/Ruah speed run. Shoot on the light at 5 feet 5 shots. All shot should hit because you are so close. Again you are trying to get on the light as quick as possible going as fast as possible. Because you are at five feet all conscious effort at hitting should be absence, Only speed matters. But because you see all hits, you will be storing that accuracy information. Then move to ten feet five shots, then to 15 feet 5 shots, then to 21 feet 5 shots, then maybe to 30 feet. We have found that a average session will be at 80% accuracy, a good session nearer to 90%. There is something about starting out hitting, keeps you hitting. Maybe because if our initial five shots are in the cone of fire, and as you move back the cone does not change if your initial target area on the target is a 5 inch area.
Draw, fire, reholster, draw, fire, reholster, draw fire, reholster for five shots on a target where you see every hit and at 5 feet. See if you can get it down to two seconds for five shots. What you are doing is finalizing your draw. Since you are repeating the draw, you don't have time to think. Of course, you are also storing information on accuracy. Chunking data and automation go hand in hand on the road to being an expert. The Sports Gene.
Myths: Some have tried to tell me that a gunslinger needs at least 2 draws to be competitive. I simply do not believe it. If my fastest draw is 100% accurate, why should I ever slow down. The myth that you have to slow down to hit comes from those that have a defective draw or have not finalized their draw. If you flail or if you are trying to be accurate by changing your draw, maybe it does help to slow down. If you have finalized your draw, never ever slow down!
"Put the fear of Alleluia in 'em!"
"We don't practice missing!"
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