How To Run A Sub-30-Second PRS Barricade

I'm Francis cologne today I'm going to show you how to run a sub3 second PRS barricade we are MDT we design test and create precision rifle chassis and accessories to help you shoot better the goal for most Shooters is to take four positions shoot eight shots and impact all in a range of 40 to 60 seconds the time limit is 90 seconds on every stage specifically with the skill stage however the best Shooters in the world are generally in the low 30s to even sometimes High 20 [Music] [Applause] [Music] the average pro is going to be in the high 40s to mid-40s on most runs Without Really any question now as an amateur this can be really important because it can determine the placement that you fall in a match in the event of a tie today I'm bringing in my colleague Chad Heckler good buddy of mine we run a podcast together miles to matches Chad what's your average time on a barricade right now somewhere in the mid-40s so a 40c barricade run is very respectable we're going to run him through his first shots of the day on the barricade to see what his body positions footfalls and form look like without having done any shooting today so we're going to go shoot that now then we're going to review the footage so we can make some training plans to get a little bit faster nice J ready stand by engage [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] the goal is to try to get you into the low 30s to mid-30s pretty consistently and so I noticed a couple things on this particular run that we can do a little bit better in the future as you start to step there's six total footfalls and they happen in very short succession you're sort of shuffling your feet forward to the position instead of taking big bold strides and each step is approximately a half to 1 second depending on how you um Pace them out but generally that means you could easily save from your first shot out 1 to 3 seconds the rest of your shots on the first position look great as we move from there to the transition after your second shot to position two now we have the first point where I see a lot of room for improvement in terms of transition times the ability to take a rifle off a barricade uh and that skill that's involved is really important when it comes to efficiency the common error which you don't make this exact mistake here but the common one I see is people using what's called an arm hook method uh where you have to put the rifle under your armpit and then you heave it up with one arm in your case you're not doing that exactly but you are lifting the rifle dead up with your back yep and it's coming straight up with both of your arms and you have to do sort of a shoulder shrug and that position you also in order to balance your body your left foot goes from the kneeling position all the way forward to the barricade it goes too far forward then comes back your right foot Shuffles twice in that same process mhm and that causes each of those footfalls then your left foot squares up one more time and now you're in a position instead of turning towards the right barricade to look at it think turn and slide laterally so transition from position three to position four is also important and as we go up you can see you stand up right foot goes slightly right left foot goes back and you're kneeling that's actually a pretty good transition you could shorten this up one step if from the last position if your foot had been just 6 in wider right on the right this position three it wouldn't have had to take that single step yeah and it was only like three or four in correct then you slide down and you're IM immediately into the correct position for position three which lets you square up and send your last two shots as fast as possible from this point why don't we go through we're going to do another run and let's see if we can improve on some of these things practice our footwork and Transitions and then we'll move right into some live fire to see if we can speed it up sounds good to me we want to build a reverse walk back to the start position so I'm going to have you take note of your right heel and I want you to pin your left toes to the ground as you start to walk backward I'm going to hold your rifle and I want you to take a wide step with your right all the way up and back so in other words one and now back another half step so now you see a footprint is to where your left toe yep located here right foot located here so when this walk I should expect to see you start your transition your left foot should wide walk yep and then kneel into the rifle to be in the perfect [Music] [Applause] spot now we're going to pull the rifle off with you and we're going to add one layer to this setting your rifle and transitioning to kneeling at the same time in the original video walked up left foot went forward bag rifle back and down we want to do that all in one motion consolidate all that forward motion into one simple drop Place bag on target continue much better the more we practice an individual skill perfectly the better that's going to translate to more Perfection across all the positions let's go through your original you step forward and put your foot all the way up here in order to grab the rifle by its front and lifting with your back in order to heave it up and now you had to rebuild your entire body position around the rifle again yep so from this position we're going to move roll the rifle down and to the left so you can support the bag and the rifle with your left hand however I want all of your weight to be on the right foot as you step and you're only going to bring your right foot to where my your next foot will end up ultimately leading to be your left foot needs to be here your right foot needs to be about half your body width off to the right okay so roll it back it down all my weights on my right foot bring it down bring it up down and now step wide right and now you should be in a position on position [Applause] if you look at your relationship between the center of your body and where your rifle is look at how far left of center line your left foot is we want to imagine that same relationship for your left foot over here we're going to lift down on the rifle roll it with the bag up so we go support the rifle vertically with both hands as fast as possible heel click wide step right onto the barricade let's come back to this position so in this position position you were square and you're in a very good spot if you widen your stance slightly more it will allow you to bring your heels closer and push your butt out and in doing so you can stay tighter to the barricade and manage the weight of the rifle better during this transition okay I like that cuz it did feel like I was you were leaning forward that generally when you feel that lean forward and the tendency to step it means your feet aren't far enough forward and your butt isn't far enough out the way we talked about that is simply we don't want to bend at the waist when we try to get behind a rifle we want to widen our feet and stick our butt out that puts weight to the heels which makes us far more solid and allows us to transition laterally instead of stepping back and [Applause] forth all right so now we're going to build a perfect position from here and we're notice you actually already did it if I look at the side of your rifle it's on the edge of the barricade or very close to it this is important for a right-handed shooter or even a lefty you want to make sure as a lefty you get as close to the right Edge and it is a righty you get as close to the right edge of position three as you can we'll explain why and here's the next transition go ahe and take a perfect position on this rifle okay well I'm already noticing that my foot is pretty much in the right spot yeah like where I need to be be very close that's part of the reason for being so wide right if your foot is wide and if we keep that practice of pushing your hips or heels forward and your butt out by doing so it keeps our body and feet in a more central location to the butt stock so this is my critical interface my feet should always be approximately toes to balls of feet directly over the re the yeah because if I stay there in every other position My Lead Foot will always be in that plane yep so from this position when you take your transition this should be the easiest transition you'll make out of all the barricades same thing roll the rifle down drop the rifle right foot never moves it never moved yeah and that is how we save another three foot swalls so we don't Shuffle back and forth anytime we move back and forth with our feet again we're losing half to 1 second for every pair of footfalls that we use [Music] based on all of the dry firing you've done you're now down in dry fire runs into the 30 to 33 second range okay which is plenty fast for what we're trying to accomplish now we just simply have to add The Recoil component and generally with Shooters I find you tend to shoot slightly better not dry firing you'll actually focus on the things that come naturally as soon as you're expecting to see a bang so why don't we put some rounds in it and start hitting the target all right sounds good stand by engage [Applause] [Music] [Music] we only spent about probably 20 25 minutes here dry firing and now we had our first live fire run we shaved 7 to 8 seconds off of your initial time just with a little bit of footwork I mean I still got a lot of work to do I feel but that makes me pretty happy for the amount of time we put into it and just trying to standard those foot movements gives me a lot of confidence that when I transition I'm going to already be set up for Success building a natural natural position with natural point of aim yeah and the great thing about this this skill isn't just on the skill stage right this is every position that we build on every prop I mean that's kind of why this is a skill stage yeah you know the the PRS created skill stages in order to have us practice these movements and you know you see this stage a lot but like you said this builds core fundamental principles of motion bag manipulation recoil management that you will use on every single stage yeah well with that man I think you should keep practicing cuz uh match is already started all right you should own it every day

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Length: 11min 12sec (672 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 19 2024