One suggestion for your drill tagets would be to add a small, maybe 6 font, drill name with brief instruction to the bottom right corner of the targets, similar to the FAST target but not so big.

I find myself having to make notes on what the drill targets are used for, sequence of fire, recommended distance etc. maybe even the correct paper size. I find when I put some of these at 7 yards that surely it’s a 3 yard drill and I’m just remembering it incorrectly, the 3-2-1 at 7 yards is tough with a par time.

Even starting at 3 yards, adding a few yards seriously slows me down for a bit. It certainly forces you to focus on your basics, especially trigger control.

As for the next test pistol, anything but a Glock please, maybe one of the new Sig’s. I don’t hate Glocks but I don’t expect a 100k torture test to show us anything about a Glock we didn’t already know. Although it might bust that new recoil spring the Gen 4′s come with if you didn’t change it out every 10k.

GJM — The new Heinie sights I received were aligned properly but the bases were oversized. It took quite a bit of filing to get them to fit.

There are arguments to be made for both the S and the LEM. The S gives you the benefit of a manual safety which is an advantage for both weapons retention as well as administrative handling. The LEM gives you a “point and click” interface. It really comes down to where your priorities are.

2) Just got a P30/S in .40. Decocker on the back of the slide eliminates the variant 1 problem where a 1911 shooter can de-cock or, worse, tie up the pistol by pushing down too hard on the thumb safety. The thumb safety gives a place for my thumb and solves the depressing the slide stop/no lock back issue. My SA trigger has no creep. There is also the option of de-cocking and having a heavier trigger for shoulder holster or off body carry.

Thoughts on the /S versus LEM?

(1) A shot timer. Every serious shooter needs a shot timer. This is non-negotiable. You can use your timer in both live and dry fire practice.

(2) Timed (“turning”) targets. If you have access to a facility that can provide appearing/disappearing targets based on a time you set, there are a lot of things you can accomplish. In some ways, it’s better than having a shot timer because you learn to engage a threat until it disappears. Rather than seeing how fast you can fire five rounds, you see how many rounds you can put on a target before it falls/turns. However, most timed target systems can only do full-second intervals so learning to shave tenths of a second off your draw, reload, etc. becomes harder to manage.

Thanks for the great drill suggestions, guys. Keep ‘em coming!