How often and how do you practice?

[ChunkyMonkey]

Wish I can go out as much... Need the exercise!!


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[Mick-Boy]

I spend 6 month of any given year in chaotic environments. This occasionally means some rather unforgiving pass/fail tests of my training.

Once a year I attend a two week re-evaluation of marksmanship, CQB, driving, medical, hand-to-hand, and general tactical/decision making skills.

During the ~ 5 months of the year that I'm home and not attending some kind of mandated training/evaluation I PT, box, shoot and try to catch up on all the real life that I missed during the rest of the time.

My shooting is usually focused on basic skills. I'll shoot various quals (Dan512 posted a link to a bunch of drills in another thread) and try and improve any areas that are shown to be lacking. I'd like to shoot more matches but they're usually scheduled during times that I'd rather spend with my family.

[buffalobo]

Really sucks but pretty much just once a month match and once a month hour long range trip.


Am a Daniel Horner fan and practice drills I see him run.

[CHA-LEE]

Dry fire 2-3 times a week + live fire on weekends. I don't really have hard set dry or live fire practice drills. I just pick a skill I am currently sucking at and beat on it until I suck less at it. It's a never ending process of self assessment and focused training on skills that need improved. I also make it a point to take a class or two from others every year to get a fresh set of eyes on what I need to fix.

[CHA-LEE]

I also want to point out that the quality of the training is far more important than the quantity. I will get more out of a solid 10 minutes of highly focused practice with low reps, verses spending an hour doing brain dead repetitions just to go through motions.