By David Fessenden
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden covers handgun calibers for hid hold, revolvers vs. semiautos, CCW holsters, dry perform, live-fire perform, plus loading and unloading the handgun.
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When you are confident that you understand the mechanics of each technique, then the speed will begin to appear with each repetition. This will occur naturally. Do not attempt to consciously speed these moves up. If you do, you will more than likely get out of sequence and tempo and all the wheels will come off your practice session and you will need to start over again. Speed comes only after mechanics and tempo (smoothness) have been engrained. Don’t worry, you will have plenty of time to attain that blinding speed you have seen in the movies or TV – which, by the way, is more a product of editing than it is of the actor’s ability.
You may chamber check your weapon from time to time to reinforce in your mind that the weapon remains empty. This is good for your focus and confidence while you practice. Again, you will not have any magazines available during your sessions. This gives pause to semiautomatic owners who wish to dry practice with guns that have an onboard magazine safety feature that requires a magazine in place to allow the weapon to cycle and the trigger to operate. In these sessions, you will need to set up a procedure for using an EMPTY magazine for those techniques that require you to cycle your slide in order to complete your practice session.
Beyond that amount of time, you will get tired and lose focus. Here, it is a case of the law of diminishing returns: you are practicing imperfect techniques and rather than engrain the wrong procedures, it is better to simply stop your session, hopefully on a high note. You should also confine your sessions to practicing just one segment or technique at a time. If you are practicing sight alignment and you feel that after 10 minutes of practice you are definitely on top of your game, then you may decide to call an end to this session.