Originally Posted by
okie
Interesting! I've never timed myself, but I feel like I'm about the same. I mostly focus on being methodical more than fast, and making sure that my technique is solid all the way through. I set up targets around my property and practice using the terrain as cover and shooting through gaps in the grass and stuff like that. It's a lot different than just standing on a firing line and shooting at a target. A lot of the time you don't even have eyes on the target because you're shooting through the weeds. That's one thing I practiced a lot this fall was approaching the target until I could see its head, then getting low and taking the shot through the weeds using the terrain as cover and weeds as concealment. If, upon seeing the threat, you simply crouch down in a normal stance, you instantly conceal yourself and have shots on steel before that hypothetical person could walk forward enough to get you back in their sights. Then you can go to kneeling and be completely covered by the terrain, retreat to cover under concealment, etc. VERY good skill to have because in any realistic scenario there's always that moment where you encounter the threat, and if you have that technique down then you don't necessarily have to be faster on the draw. If that other person hasn't practiced that they're going to either shoot wildly in your general direction, run away to cover, or try and advance on you to get you in their sights.
I just don't feel like a shot timer is really applicable to that kind of thing. I'm not even really sure how you would use it in those scenarios. The whole point of the drill is that you yourself are surprised when you see the target. I mean of course you know approximately where it is, but you change it up so that exact moment when it becomes visible isn't predictable to you. The foliage changes so much throughout the seasons and just moving the targets a little bit or approaching from a slightly different angle means you get a lot of mileage out of it.