The Central Texas Standards


This course of fire was originally developed in the early 1980's by Chip McCormick and Ronin Colman (who is the genius behind the PACT timer). It was handed down to me by Texas 3-gun guru Jim Griggs. I've used this drill a lot - it's a good set of exercises to build up your basic stand-and-shoot skills.

Set up three IPSC targets in an 'El Presidente' configuration, side by side, about shoulder width apart. The leftmost target is 'A', middle target is 'B', right target is 'C'. The course is divided into 6 parts and is a series of timed-fire, virginia count exercises. Since it's timed fire, misses and shots not fired incur no penalties. Overtime shots are -5 points. The start position for each string is your choice: I typically use hands at sides or 'surrender'. Score and tape targets after each part.


PART 1

50 YARDS

35 YARDS

TOTAL HITS: A=5 B=8 C=12

TOTAL ROUNDS/POINTS: 25/125


PART 2

25 YARDS

TOTAL HITS: A=3 B=3 C=6

TOTAL ROUNDS/POINTS: 12/60


PART 3

15 YARDS

TOTAL HITS: A=7 B=7 C=7

TOTAL ROUNDS/POINTS: 21/105


PART 4

15 YARDS

10 YARDS

TOTAL HITS: A=7 B=7 C=7

TOTAL ROUNDS/POINTS: 21/105


PART 5

10 YARDS

TOTAL HITS: A=6 B=6 C=16

TOTAL ROUNDS/POINTS: 28/140


PART 6

7 YARDS

TOTAL HITS: A=6 B=6 C=6

TOTAL ROUNDS/POINTS: 18/90


TOTAL ROUNDS: 125

TOTAL POINTS: 625

A Grand Master should be able to 'clean' this drill. Calculate your percentage assuming 100% is 625 points.

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