Shooting Drills: Hostile behind cover targets
When at the range we often fall into the trap of using a simple circular ‘bulls eye’ style target, a normal steel plate, or a standing silhouette
style target for our practice. While there is nothing inherently wrong with that type of shooting, you are cheating yourself if this is all you are
doing.
A simple improvement that can work wonders for your reactionary skills as well as your marksmanship is the so-called hostile behind cover
target.
Simply put, this type of target is one where you have to hit only a portion of the target, which is typically off-centered, rather than firing at a
designated bull’s-eye in the geographic center of the paper (or plate). What this does is provide a shoot/don’t-shoot element to your drills.
This simulates a hostile who is taking cover (or concealment) behind a structure, person, or thing, therefore only exposing a small part of
himself to you…
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