This week, on Tactical Rifleman, we are going to cover Karl’s favorite 5 Rifle Drills for New Shooters. Yes, there are hundreds of great drills out there. Yes, you need to practice all your critical skills, such as transitions, malfunctions, and speed reloads. However, first and foremost, new shooters need to develop muscle memory. That takes thousands (7-9k) of repetitions of the same CORRECT movements and actions.
You’ll see that each of these drills builds on the drill(s) before it; so that you are continuing to push those said movements and actions into your subconscious mind. It’s like driving… the first few months, you had to think about brakes and turn signals. Now, you just drive subconsciously. That frees up the conscious mind to focus on signs, signals, and other drivers. Likewise, you need to push all these basic shooting skills into your subconscious mind. That frees up the conscious mind to focus on “Is it a Threat” and “Is it a Threat that warrants Deadly Force?”
Master these drills, through lots of repetition of each. If your unit doesn’t have that much ammo, then start with dry firing, and wrap up with live fire. Once, you have mastered them, then add all your critical skills to these drills:
Add Transition to Pistol Drills, every time your rifle runs dry or malfunctions
Add Tactical & Speed Reloads
Add Turning & Moving Drills, to these drills
Use Dummy Rounds, to induce Malfunctions during these drills.
Once you have mastered these five drills; we’ll give you plenty of other great shooting drills to work on. When you are ready to test; use the timed Critical Task Evaluations (CTEs) to see if you make the standard. If you don’t know them, we are going to cover them in an upcoming video, on Tactical Rifleman.
Again, we know there are tons of other great rifle drills out there. I know all the Internet Ninjas are gonna start screaming how “Their Drill is Better” or how we “Obviously don’t know how to Shoot.” Yep, you guys are awesome. However, these are still Karl’s Top-5 Combat Drills for New Shooters. Thanks for watching. Strength & Honor, TR.
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Hello Karl, another AWESOME video man. You have taught me/us so many cool training drills I appreciate you giving me these tools to put into my tool box. Unfortunately I don’t get to all of the drills I have been exposed to in your channel but the ones I have watched are all tucked away in my head. Just being exposed to things can help a Human in a time of need. Again I appreciate it and thank you for all the lessons…..
We still double tappin with .308?
Great video, thank you. The great thing about this is if you have a dry fire system you can practice with your muscle memory at home and the app shows you your shot placement. I cannot get to the range as often as I wish .
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Just curious what calibre you were using?
Amazing.
I would like to join it
Karl, you always bring reality – I'm using these drills with pistol with our church security team
Great drill explanation and demonstration . you are a really good instructor. . I have an adult teaching credential. You follow all established rules of communicating and demonstrating with no BS waist of time, you also show confidence and know your equipment Still learning after 33 years as a Swatologist and an ordinary E4 teaching adults police science.
What’s the distance from those targets?
Thank you !
Two questions: 1. What distance is your optic set to? 2. Is your optic at 1x or higher? Thank you for your service!
Great Job !!!!!!!
I will definitely trained like this, great drills
3:17 Or head.
Solid. As a student progresses to a higher level of competency would it be ok to add in the practice of getting off the X (variations of stepping left or right) thanks Karl.
what stock is that on his rifle
Why has the modern generation changed the name from Mozambique Drill to the Failure Drill ????
Hello.. I have a question..When you bring your weapon up and shoot.. Are you using your sites or your scope??
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Does anyone know what range in Louisiana allows this??? Preferably around New Orleans area
Prior military 13yr infantry
Mine was when you put the wood down the barrel with a balanced Penny. You can't let the penny fall off the extended barrel switching from safe to fire, and a trigger squeeze. If I would have made it to 100, the platoon wouldn't have gotten extra PT, but on my 87th the penny fell off. I failed.
What kind of camera was used here? That AR sounds real quiet.
I am copy you for my Softair team and drill them. Thank you
A orphleum training. DJIBOUTI 🇩🇯
Hi Karl, I'm new to the AR platform. To clarify, are you on safe to start the drill, taking it off, then returning to safe each time? Or is it off to start, just using master grip? Thanks.
slow is smooth and smooth is fast
Dude you are the man solid solid💪🏻💪🏻🦾🦾
Thank you
"you gotta beat that AK with a shot to the head" Me practicing drills with an AK
Great info…..Thank you sir.
That dums drill i ever see
Makes no sense sorry
Karl and other Tactical Riflemen, I can’t say how if an asset your learning videos are for non-military persons like us public. They teach us fundamentals and what to work on, even if we are doing it by dry fire.