No, not in my budget sadly.After taking Aaron Cowans class last year I purchased a bunch of his preferred targets and like them.
But…in preparing for the Gabe White class last week I had been practicing his drills on the Sage target, and Gabe’s standard for a headshot is a 4” circle. Practicing on a 7 or 8” circle really hindered me when I got to class. I was not nearly as good as I thought I was, at least by Gabe’s standards.
@jwamplerusa were you at Sage last year?
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I just copied off another 100 of these targets from Lee at First Person Safety. The center square is 3X3 with the rectangle being 3X5, and the circle around them 5.5. I use these for a lot of different things. The dots at the bottom I usually use for recoil control drills.
That looks suspicously like a guy torn on the results of the target. On one hand happy he was one of two people (along with the fabulous Heather Reeves) to pass this drill, but on the other hand unhappy that he dropped a round out of the 3X3 box. Targets matter.
You definitely need to vary the size and type of target depending on what you are trying to accomplish. I do shoot 8 inch circles if that is what the drill calls for, but more often I am shooting a 3X5 or going for black only on a B-8. That is for speed/accuracy type stuff. Unlike some of the others here, I definitely think you should mix in reactive targets, photorealistic targets, 3D targets, and of course ultimately FOF if shooting for self defense is the goal.After taking Aaron Cowans class last year I purchased a bunch of his preferred targets and like them.
But…in preparing for the Gabe White class last week I had been practicing his drills on the Sage target, and Gabe’s standard for a headshot is a 4” circle. Practicing on a 7 or 8” circle really hindered me when I got to class. I was not nearly as good as I thought I was, at least by Gabe’s standards.
@jwamplerusa were you at Sage last year?