Posted April 6, 2016 12:16 pm by Comments

By gunwriter In 2012 while researching and working on my book, Handgun Training for Personal Protection, I worked with a local shooting club to put together a defensive handgun match. The stages for the match are those detailed in my book. But, I went a step further and for the Forty-Five Drill stage each competitor was required to shoot the drill with their own gun and with a handgun equipped with a Crimson Trace Laser Grip. In the Forty-Five Drill the shooter is required to draw from concealment, put five rounds, into a five-inch circle, at a distance of five yards, within five seconds. Shooters were penalized 5 seconds for hits on the IPSC target outside of the five-inch circle and 10 seconds for a complete misses. So, the stage was scored by adding the penalties to the time. The best score recorded with a shooter’s own handgun was 4.30. (By the way, this pistol was a Browning HiPower.) The best score recorded with the Crimson Trace Laser Grip equipped handgun was 2.99 seconds. The average score for all shooters with their own handgun was 14.82. And – this is the important part – the average score for shooters shooting a handgun …Read the Rest

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