by the “The Blue Dragons” Coach – Mary Furr

• Shoot paper flies, stockings, turkeys etc.
• Shoot out the flame of candle
• Shoot initials
• Blind Shoot–
  • Zero Rifle
  • NPA each shot
  • Close eyes, wait 4 sec. shoot
• Guts Match (Survivor)
  • Zero (3 min)
  • 1 shot at a time by command
  • call out shot value
  • Low man out
  • After you are out you may try to distract the other shooters – no touching
• 5 Card Poker
  • 1 card for each bulls eye
  • best 5 card hand at end of practice wins
  • must have at least 5 cards to play
• Card shoot
  • Cards lengthwise to shooter
• 3P Bulls eye Challenge
  • Start in Prone Position – Shoot three shots in each record bull until you have at least one bulls eye and two more shots touching.
  • When verified by coach shooter may go on to standing. Repeat above.
  • First one done with all three positions wins.
• 3 To Go
  • Start in prone.
  • Must shoot within 3 points of personal best to move on to next position.
• Steaks
  • Cut cardboard 1” x 9” attach a piece of red fabric to top
  • Shooter must shoot thru steak and have flag fall over to win
• Three in Four (or two in four for less skilled shooters)
  • Set up two targets, zero
  • Use only the rows of four record bulls (two outside rows of each target)
  • The first shooter to have 3 out of the four tens wins
  • You must finish the row before going on to the next
• Counting Tens
  • Keep track of the number of tens shot
  • If you shoot 60 shots standing your score would be 45/60 tens
  • No actual score – keep focused on tens not score
• First to five
  • Round 1 everyone shoots – call out tens when you get one
  • First three with five tens goes on to round two – remaining team
    • Members try to distract finalists
  • First with additional five tens (or three) wins
• Five to win
  • Pair up shooters according to skill level
  • Each shoots one shot – higher score gets one point
  • First one to five points wins
• Three minutes for score
  • (Usually shot before first to five)
  • Fire 10 record shots in 3 minutes
• Quick finals
  • Allow 20, 15 or 10 sec for each shot
• Lift and shoot
  • Shooter has ten sec to deliver a quality shot or rifle is put down
  • If the shot is a 9 or ten they get 5 points if the shooter does not make the Shot in 10 sec they lose 5 points
  • no points for shots less than 9
  • Time should be reduced from 10 to 9 to 8
• Dryfire – shoot
  • Do ten dryfire shots – ten record shots
• NRA Disruption
  • Draw cards with jumbled numbers 1-10.
  • Must shoot in order of card
• Team Competition
  • Divide into teams and shoot 60 shot match
• Squash – two equally matched shooters.
  • First shooter takes shot (he shoots a 8)
  • Second shooter must shoot an 8 or better.
  • If he does not the first shooter gets a point and continues with his next shot.
  • If he does shoot 8 or better no point is given and the turn goes to second shooter.
• Runathon
  • Shooter have targets and rifle set up on line.
  • Shooters run around the building comes in pick up rifle, load and shoot 1 shot, go out, run around the building, come in a shoot 1 shot, repeat one more time for a total of three times.
  • Take the total time plus 10 second penalty for each miss.
  • Lowest time wins.
  • We usually do this with only 2 – 3 shooters at a time with parent timers.
• Fox and Hound
  • Have one of the younger or less experience shooters take 1 head start shot (he’s the fox).
  • Do shots on command and add the shot together for each shooter including the fox.
  • The first shooter that catches the foxes score wins.
• P. R. Competition (Personal Record Competition)
  • Good team competition.
  • Line kids up from best to worst shooter – 1st place goes to best shooter.
  • If shooter sets a personal record he/she get to trade places with the shooter in the next best position.
  • Example – if shooter in 3rd place sets a personal record he/she will trade place with shooter in 2nd place.
  • If the shooter in 2nd place also sets a personal record he/she blocks the advance of shooter in 3rd place.
  • Your younger (less experienced) shooters will climb the positions fairly quickly – the more experienced shooters will have to work hard to maintain their positions.
• Up and Down
  • good for reinforcing a new position
  • Get into what ever position you are working on.
  • Shooter takes one shot.
  • Gets out of position, gets back into position, takes one shot – repeat.
• Count on doing it Right
  • good for reinforcing an individual item lesson.
• Pick an item a shooter is having trouble with or inconsistent with – ie visualization, cheek position, elbow consistant in same place on hip etc.
• Using some type of counting system – pellet or bras in pocket, clicker counter pencil & paper.
• After each shot if they did the item “Right” they put a pellet or brass in their pocket.
• Figure how many shot they did “Right” out of the number shots they took.
• Two Shot Finals
  • good for learning length of 75 sec shot window
  • In the 75 seconds allotted for a final shot the shooter must make two well-aimed shots.
  • Do two sets of finals.
• Time Call Finals
  • Working thru distraction in a final
  • Coach will announce finals normally - when he says start he will give how many seconds the shooters have to make the shot.
  • He will ditract the shooters by calling out the seconds or their name w/ the seconds left.
  • Very the time for each shot.
  • Run a normal finals after to get them back on track.
• Hold and Shoot Finals
  • good for learning length of 75 sec shot window
  • Shooter will have 75 seconds to bring rifle up, make a good honest steady hold, put the rifle down load and shoot the shot.
• Mental Routine Drill
  • LEAD with you MIND so that your body follows with the desired results.
  • The shooter SPECIFICALLY tells himself/herself what to look for or do prior to the physical act of firing the shot
  • Step 1: mount the rifle, check balance
  • Step 2: Take deep breatha dn let it out
  • Step 3: VIVIDLY picture your hold and shooting your best ten.
  • Step 4: Settle onto the target, look thru sights, react to the sight picture, make the shot
• Bullseye to go – (9, 8, or 7 for less skilled shooters)
  • Sight in.
  • On first record bull, shooter must keep shooting until he/she shoots a 10 before going on to next record bull.
  • Emphasis on good shots not score.  

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