Home Defense Handgun Drills at a TIR

Another drill that we like very much, that we've taken advantage of the fact that we are stuck in the static position here inside the booth, inside the indoor range, is sometimes referred to as lockbox drill or a home-defense style drill, which takes advantage of the situation, not so much, that we envisioned being out in a public setting or we're out where we're being attacked by the bad guy in a parking lot, in dark alley, something like that, but now we're envisioning the confines of our home, maybe a hallway, or maybe even behind that piece of furniture, you just rolled out of bed. So what the drill's intended to do is simulate your response. You've gotten yourself awake, the gun is in a box. In order to do the drill, we keep the gun in a gun case that's gonna simulate the way that it would be stored in a lot of homes, and it's actually unloaded. And the point of the drill, is going to be to get to the box, get the gun out, load it, and get a shot, a rapid string of fire into the high center chest of the bad guy.

So the setup is extremely simple. The gun is already in the box. The gun is unloaded. There's a loaded magazine inserted in the box with it, and all I'm going to have to do is step up from the carpet, into... actually into the firing point, keeping my eyes oriented toward the target.

I'm gonna get the box open, retrieve the gun, get it loaded, drive out, and get some multiple shots into the high center chest of my threat. So let's take a look how this looks. Placing the gun in the box requires us to do something that we're normally not doing. When we're practicing with the gun. We step up into the firing point on our normal range visit.

When we're coming up to shoot the gun or even during some of our training practice we've already got the gun available to us and the gun's already loaded. Loading the gun as rapidly as we can, keeping the eyes fixed on the target is something we don't always get an opportunity to practice and putting it in the context of maybe doing that from a fixed position inside this narrow hallway, or maybe on behind the dresser. I just rolled out of bed and I had to grab the gun doing it from here, takes advantage of the fact that I'm pretty much stuck in this booth to begin with but I can still utilize what I've got here to get some reasonable home defense practice out of it.