The Smith & Wesson M&P Shield Range Session

hello ladies and gentlemen I am Chris from Lucky gunner comm where you can get all of your favorite ammo with lightning fast shipping this is a Smith & Wesson M&P SHIELD nine-millimeter it is one of the most popular guns in the country probably the most popular 9-millimeter from the last few years and it's not a bad little pistol it's very lightweight easy to carry not too difficult to shoot for a gun of its size it's a single stack comes with one seven round and one eight round magazine and wouldn't be my first choice not my favorite gun it's not one I shoot particularly well but it's not bad I understand the appeal it's a decent gun especially for the price and if you guys that I've talked to recently who are shield owners are just now for the first time getting serious about improving their marksmanship ability and one of the issues they've run into is that a lot of the drills that we do are not really designed with small guns in mind at least not small guns with a limited capacity and so they're running into some issues there so I thought I would put together a special practice session specifically for the shield now this will work with any gun that's got at least a seven round capacity but I had the shield in mind when I put it together and we're gonna talk about a few of the challenges specific to shooting the shield so here's a brief overview of what that looks like we're gonna start with the immediate incapacitation drill we're gonna do that twice then we've got another sequence of fire that I don't really have a clever name for you might call it the one-two-three reload three to one so we're gonna practice drawing and firing various number of rounds and then we're gonna do that whole sequence again but we're gonna do it a little faster and then we're gonna wrap up the session with a modified version of the super test before he has started here I am assuming that you have had some formal instruction in how to properly and safely draw a handgun you don't need to be doing this for the first time on the range at full speed with live ammo in the gun that's something you need to work your way up to so I'm assuming you've done that before you're also gonna need a shot timer I'm going to need some targets some kind of silhouette target I would suggest an IPA or a USPS a cardboard target and you're gonna need some be a bull's-eye you can buy those online or you can print them out yourself and I will include a link to a PDF in the video description okay so we're starting off with a drill that gave white calls the immediate incapacitation drill so we're just gonna start at 7 yards and draw and fire two rounds to the head box on this IDPA target I'd be aiming for the little four inch circle you can also use a three by five card either way you want a small target to work with we're gonna do this drill two times I always like to start a practice session with something that's fairly challenging but a good drill that I can time and record my time on in my range notebook so that I've got some way to measure my progress over a period of time so I might shoot this drill at every range session or every other range session for a period of months and it'll give me an idea for them improving or if I've kind of plateaued if you want some kind of part time to shoot for I'd say three and a half seconds is pretty good for a small gun like this an advanced time might be two and a half seconds that would be really fast but don't get too wrapped up with the par times the main thing is to look at your own times and see if you're improving for this first sequence of shots which is what we're gonna spend most of our time on I want to really emphasize the draw stroke I think that's the most important technical skill you can have for a concealed carry if you have to use the gun you know you're gonna have to get it out and present it to the target so you need to know how to draw the gun quickly and efficiently now know a lot of you guys shoot at ranges where you're not allowed to work from the holster that really stinks but what you're gonna have to do is just work from the low ready position and then when you get home do lots of dry practice with an empty gun and practice that draw stroke either way what we're gonna do is with this first sequence work really slowly and deliberately because when we're working these repetitions we don't want to do them incorrectly there's no point in building muscle memory if it's wrong so we want to make sure every step of the draw stroke is done correctly so we're gonna slowly and carefully at the count of five one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand and break our shot we're gonna draw fire 1 then draw and fire two shots and then draw and fire three shots so things to look for here I want to make sure I'm doing a correct four step draw stroke really clear that cover the arm and get it out of the way get a full firing grip on the gun before it comes out of the holster bring the hands together close to the body not floating them out here and really want to make sure I keep that finger away from the trigger until the gun is pointed at the target the shields trigger is not particularly light but it is like most striker fired guns it is a short length of travel so once your finger is on that trigger doesn't take much for the gun to go off so you want to make sure that your finger is away from the trigger until you've got it up here the safety same thing when you get the gun on target that's when you want to deactivate the safety if you're gonna has one there is a version of the shield that doesn't have a safety now this is a little tiny nub so it takes a lot of reps to get really good at deactivating this thing as you're doing the draw stroke and then as soon as you're done firing the safety comes back on when the gun comes off target a lot of people don't like the safety on this I don't particularly think it's very well designed part of the gun if you're left-handed just forget about it just leave the safety off all the time there's no way you're gonna be able to deactivate this thing reliably and a lot of right-handed people don't like using it either the thing is if you decide not to use it and you leave it off all the time you got to make sure you've got a holster that either covers this thing up or is not gonna bump against it or allow something else to rub against it and accidentally activate it without you knowing it make sure it stays off all the time so at this point you will have one round left in the gun so you're gonna draw fire that one round perform an emergency reload and fire one more round now you might not have a magazine pouch that's fine you can reload from your your front pocket your back pocket whatever even if you don't carry a reload with you on a regular basis this is a good skill to know how to do I don't necessarily prioritize this skill I don't think it's super important but you have to reload anyway so you should know how to do it correctly make sure again you're you're doing it slowly and deliberately make sure your technique is flawless we want to build reps with really good technique so now there are six rounds left in the gun we're gonna go in the reverse order of last time we're gonna draw fire three rounds draw fire two rounds draw and fire one round what we want to focus on this time is recoil control so we're gonna go a little faster than before not quite full speed yet we're gonna go a little faster and we're going to think about controlling the gun so really clamped down on the grip squeeze tight from both sides and think about follow-through you want to see to sight pictures for every shot you don't want to let this gun get away from you and you want to make sure it's not shifting around in your hand you know I have to make any adjustments in between shots if you do your grip is wrong and you to figure out how to get that under control so with that sequence we have gone through to seven round magazines so load those up again and now we're gonna repeat the whole sequence except this time we're gonna do it at full speed by full speed I mean go as fast as you can and still have a reasonable guarantee that you're gonna hit the target now really this is where you can kind of get creative and change things up a little bit and adjust a practice session to suit what you want to work on so you could instead of just repeating the sequence you could do it all just strong hand only or we can only you can incorporate some movement you could add multiple targets just get creative do what you want based on what skills you think you want to work on so now we've got 18 rounds left out of our 50 round practice session and I want to end things with the super test now the super test we did a few weeks ago on our start shooting better series that is one of those that's designed with full-size guns in mind so you're shooting at 15 10 and 5 yards 10 round strings of fire obviously we can't do that because the shield doesn't have 10 round magazines so we're gonna shoot the revolver version of the super test and that's also at 15 10 and 5 yards but we're shooting six round strings of fire so our time limits are gonna be 12 seconds at 15 yards 8 seconds at 10 yards and 4 seconds at 5 yards for the standard version of the test you can start from the low ready or you can shoot from the holster for the advanced version we're shooting this on a b8 bull's eye target so you're gonna score the target as it's marked that gives us a maximum possible score of 180 points to pass the test you want to have 90% which would be a hundred and sixty two points so in just 50 rounds we have covered a lot of ground we've worked on draw stroke recoil control reloads we've done precision shooting on small targets we've done rapid-fire on vital zone size targets at close range and we've got two drills that we can record our scores on track in our range notebook that's not bad for 50 rounds so gossan range give it a try and let me know how it works out for you [Music] [Music]

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Length: 9min 19sec (559 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 15 2018