USCCA Universal Target

This is USCCA's Universal target, and they've integrated it into all of their live fire training programs as of 2024. It's a great program target for them because they do offer so many different programs on indoor ranges, outdoor ranges, handguns, rifle, beginners to more advanced shooters all can take advantage of what this one piece of paper has to offer. Now obviously they built on what we have seen a lot here at Personal Defense Network, the balance of speed and precision target, and we even had a version of the balance of speed and. Decision target that we did with USCCA for the defensive shooting fundamentals program. Now this target takes the aspects of having one main primary area in the high center chest, multiple areas on the target representing that size target, as well as smaller areas that require a higher level of precision and different numbers, colors, different shapes, different ways to create creative commands that cause the need for cognitive processing with the students or that you can do with your training partners when you're out practicing.

Um, but what they've done here is very specific. It's not just a, a copy of what we've been doing with our target for a long time. They've integrated those concepts with some more traditional aspects of training targets. For example, IDPA and IPSC, very popular competitions that also find a lot of people practicing for them on the ranges. IDPA for a lot of people has an overlap into their defensive training, and what they've done is they've taken the A zones or the primary high center chess target area from IPSIC and from IDPA and integrated both the rectangle and the circle as options in.

This target, so you may decide one day you're you're getting ready for an IDPA match. You're gonna be focused on the circle. A couple of weeks later you're getting ready for an IPSI match. You can use the same piece of paper and you're gonna be using that rectangle. There's also a smaller square that really represents that hand area that we normally talk about inside of the high center chest, that open hand, obviously it overlaps a lot with the IDPA circle, and that could be a target area that you might use, which you can see is redundant down in what you've seen a lot here at Personal Defense Network and A box and a B box.

Down at the bottom of the target, in addition, we've got smaller targets around the outside, and those are numbered and they're not necessarily numbered in order. Now once you get used to the target, you're gonna know where number one is, but when you especially when you first get started in any of the training programs when you're practicing with your partners using this target, um, having to find the number, um, you can do math, you can do combinations, you can do cognitive processing like you know how many vehicles do you own or how many states have you lived in, you've got to find the number that correspond. to that target and then engage that target whatever shape and size it is is one of our kind of basic training protocols here. They've also done a similar thing in the head of the target where they have different shapes. You might say, OK, this week we're gonna work on the triangle.

You might be someone who prefers to work on a rectangle, the box like you would see on a on an ISI target, um, or you might want to go for that circle, whatever it is you prefer or you can change from time to time to again vary your balance of speed and precision. Another thing you can do with this target is. Utilize the the vertical lines or the crosshair, especially if you're thinking about zeroing a rifle, um, for example, if you go further back, um, one of the things they've added to this target instead of a small cross like we have on the bounce speed and precision target, they've got a very large cross which can be used for a variety of drills, but again really easy to put a radical on that in practice, uh, you're you're shooting at higher precision or get a 0 on a rifle or confirm a zero on a rifle. The last thing I want to point out with the universal target is the QR code and what they have promised is that they're gonna be putting. Up new drills.

I think on the website it says weekly, um, but either way, periodically they'll be putting up new drills that you scan, you know, every time you're at the range you have the same exact target. Pull your phone out, scan the QR code, it'll take you to a web link that gives you a featured drill or a list of drills in case you're just lacking a little creativity, you're not sure where to go or you're open to anything on a practice day, they're gonna give you something to do, obviously that's integrated with the opportunities you have to engage as one piece of paper, the USCCA universal target.