Went out to the range the other day to see if a problem I was having with my BRN-180 SBR was resolved or not. I swapped out the extractor and ejector with ones from JP Customs and that seems to have fixed it. I say ‘seems’ because I won’t be completely satisfied until I run a couple hundred more rounds through it. There’s simply no room for doubt and lack of faith in a firearm that you may (or may not) want to keep in a ‘serious’ role.
Speaking of serious, the internet gives me no shortage of pistol drills to use to keep skills sharp and active. However, I don’t see as many carbine drills. So, I am throwing this question out to the collective hive-mind: do you have a source for drills I can perform at the range using an AR equipped with a .22 conversion kit? Most of my rifle drills involve ‘snap shooting’ but I’d like something a bit more, for lack of a better term, ‘practical’ or ‘real world’. There are plenty of drills that require use of full blown .223 ammo, and while some of those may be of use when using a .22 conversion, many are not. Because .22 is less powerful than .223, I’m looking for more ‘close in’ drills. Anyone have any suggestions? Bonus points if its a drill that can involve rifle/pistol transitions that enable me to use my .22 Glock.
By the by, the conversion kit I use is the CMMG .22 conversion kit and I cannot say enough good things about it. Just clean and lube it thoroughly when youre done and it’s good to go. Same for the .22 Glock.
Kyle Lamb has a book, Green Eyes Black Rifles. Lots of good information.
Green Eyes, Black Rifle. Kyle Lamb, a former Delta guy. Great instructor.
Here is Reid Henrich’s SNAP drills from a few years back. 25 yd -50 yd, back to 7 yards. If I was running your 22 setup, I probably do a 15 yd and 35 yd and back to 7 yd. Which should be fine for the 22 setup. This is for rifle. On YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8leVOmSqTQ
Here is Lena Miculek, and her best use of 50 rounds at the range (pistol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8MvKIiXC2M
We do a similar one to warm up, 3 -7yard targets, from the holster, 1 @ left, 1 at center, 2 @ right, 1 @ center, 1 @ left (6 rounds).
Her drill works the basics and various pistol grips, low ready, holster and table pick up.
Of course Jerry (her Dad) has a bunch too, if you want to watch your “Dad” out-shoot you big time!
We have an old SUV on our range. We did one where vehicle notionally comes under fire. Driver and passenger have pistols. Rifles are in the back of the vehicle. Passenger provides covering fire while driver moves to the back of the vehicle, obtains and charges rifle, provides covering fire for passenger to move to the back, obtain, charge rifle and engage targets to the right front of the vehicle. We used .22s for both pistol and rifles, worked well.
Viking Tactics has a number of rifle drill videos on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/user/VikingTactics
the folding chair drill: take a folding chair and set up your target at either 25 yards for smaller targets or 50 yards for regular sized targets.
shoot from behind the chair: kneeling over the top, kneeling strong side, kneeling support side, through the back of the chair (below the back rest but above the seat), and shoot underneath the seat either kneeling on both knees or prone.
Two shots each position and move after each two shots. Use reverse kneeling:
use strong side knee up and rest the elbow of the strong side arm on it and maintain cover (very limited exposure). Same same on the support side.
to make it interesting use a timer and push yourself. tighten up your groups and your time.
The Luigi Low Light Drill
With whisper pickle attached.
Fire one round close up.
Clear jammed round
Fire second round close up.
Ride away on bike.
Off topic, please dont forget your Independence Day gif this year. (Brit saying “maybe he won’t make such a big deal this year”)
I missed it last year. Seems silly but it’s been a little tradition for me these past X years you’ve been posting it.
Although I learned these back in the day, 9mm SMG or 5.56mm CAR-15, Semi-auto selected on either, modified weaver stance for rifle, all standing, we did double-taps, A zone at 25yd.s to 50yd.s (don’t recall the time limit). The ‘Bill drill’ 6 shots at 15 yd.s, all to the A zone, timed. If you got 5 into the A and 1 in the C in say in 2.5sec, you got no score. All 6 had to be in the A zone. Sometimes tried at 25 yds if you’re really good or lucky. These were all done with iron sights btw. Bit easier now with red dots. We also did the Mozambique drill which is for someone rushing or knife attack on you (now called Tueller drill…..for reasons) 2 to the A zone, 1 to the head at 7yd.s. Also used Tueller drill for pistols. Usually timed max 1.5 seconds. These can be a lot of fun and they are good drills with .22LR.
Mozambique is now Tueller Are you sure about that Maybe you meant Failure Drill. Tueller is 21 foot drill
Uhhh…..I did mention Mozambique is now Tueller.
Last I checked, 7 yards, 3 feet to a yard =21 feet.
And that is incorrect, Tueller is a completely different drill.
I like shooting 22. Get good trigger time and get to practice off hand shooting.
i have 2 mk2 .22 rugers that have never misfired even one time in thousands of rounds. accurate and reliabe out of the box.
i love em. their a bitch to clean.