For those of us who live in bear country

[Bill in Oregon]

Here is an interesting drill.

https://pistoldrillqrc.wordpress.com/wp ... fts_v5.pdf

[samsi]

I've done a variation on that with 3 targets placed at 25, 15 and 3 yards. Use progressively shorter target stands from far to near. 3 seconds is pretty fast - if I pull it off in 3 it generally means I missed the far target.

It's a bit easier with a levergun than a revolver, but it's fun to try either way.

[Bill in Oregon]

I need to shoot the drill several times with a .22 before stepping up to an adequate CF pistol round.

[jeepnik]

Not just those that live in bear country, but any who venture into bear country.

It's interesting to note that growing up in town, the only predators we had of descent size were red foxes. These are the cute little ones you see in nature videos, they run about the size of a coyote. A very small population living on the upper reservation of the local army fort. The lived on rabbits, possums and raccoons. They were controlled by either disease or if their numbers got too large the army trapped them.

About 15 years ago coyotes started to show up. This coincided with a bunch of greenies coming into existence. So, there was no more tapping of foxes and coyotes. There numbers have grow exponentially, and they now threaten adults, children and pets.

More recently, we have had numerous sightings of mountain lions. The first I recall was about ten years ago, and the animal control / wildlife folks still deny their existence even in the face of photos, videos and physical evidence.

Just a short time ago a black bear was spotted. The wildlife folks are again denying their existence. And so it goes.

[AJMD429]

Not just those that live in bear country, but any who venture into bear country.

Actually, the drill wouldn't be a bad idea for folks living where there any 2-legged predators, either.

I need to shoot the drill several times with a .22 before stepping up to an adequate CF pistol round.

I tend to do that with almost all 'drills'. That way I may be frustrated that I didn't do well, but at least I can pat myself on the back for not spending too much ammo-money doing poorly. My son and I sometimes 'run our gongs' (double-tapping all the 50 yard gongs from a 25 yard barricade, then all the 75 and 100 yard ones from a 50 yard barricade, with interruptions by the shot-timer who could call out 'bad guy on the right[/left]' and the shooter had to pause and double tap a gong off in the weeds to the side - fortunately we have a range with three safe sides because it is in a small ravine). We did this last winter, and FIRST we used Ruger Mk-3 pistols and Ruger 10/22's, THEN we moved to AR-15's and 9mm's. Then we did the drills at night with lights on the guns. We also loaded each-other's magazines with the centerfire guns, so you never knew how many rounds a given magazine had in it, AND we'd slip in a few empty cartridge cases too, so there were not only gongs to hit, but a constant need to un-jam, and/or decide to swap magazines, and/or switch from long gun to hand gun.

The MOST fun though (for me, at least) was using our 22 LR pistols (we did keep with the semiautos though) and his Henry 22LR levergun and my Ruger 96/22 levergun (I put a 25 round magazine in it for that purpose). We also ran the gongs with Ruger Speed-Six revolvers and Marlin 1894's in 357 Magnum. even at night with gun-lights on. THAT was cool.