The Triple Nickel Shooting Drill
To shoot as if your life depended on it, you need to sweat a lot in practice. Every time you go to a safe range and practice set drills for this, you increase your chances of walking away alive if you ever do get in an encounter. Perhaps the hardest shooting drill around for a combat handgunner is the Triple Nickel.
Designed by the US Department of Homeland Security’s National Firearms and Tactical Training Unit (NFTTU), the Triple Nickel is formatted as a skills assessment drill for combat handgun proficiency for agents in the field. In it, you have to have a duty handgun with two magazines, ten rounds of ammunition, your duty or carry holster, five targets, and stands.
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