Concealed Carry and Home Defense - Michigan CPL Training & Certificate
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Keep practice fun and interesting!
Often times the drills and courses of fire we use for training and practice have us stuck shooting silhouettes and bullseyes. While these certainly have significant training value, it can get a bit monotonous. Every now and then it’s nice to change things up a little bit, both visually as well as practically. One of my favorite ways to do this is with the Casino Drill.
Setting up the Casino Drill is pretty simple. You need your pistol in either a concealment or duty holster and a DT-2A target is placed at five yards. You’ll load seven rounds into three magazines for a total of 21 rounds, with one loaded into your pistol with a round chambered. Those using reduced-capacity guns such as revolvers or pocket pistols will need to incorporate additional reloads to make the round count.
The par time on the Casino Drill is 21 seconds, anything over that is a failure of the drill. Rounds landing outside of the colored shapes add one second each to your total time. Shooting any of the shapes out of sequence adds one second to your total time for each instance. Firing too many or too few rounds into each shape also adds one second per instance to your total time. Ideally, you get all of your hits perfectly, while also staying under par.
Start with your gun holstered, with a round in the chamber, and your hands relaxed at your side. On the beep, draw and fire the drill. The sequence is deceptively simple. The round counts coincide with the number on the target; number one gets one round, two gets two, so on and so forth, until you complete the drill. With seven-round magazines, you will have to reload twice, with slide lock reloads being mandatory as part of the Casino Drill.
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