The Range
Drills, dry-fire routines and skills. The best holster on earth won't fix a slow draw, and the best optic won't fix a flinch. This is where the gear earns its keep.
Standing drills
Dry fire. 10 minutes. Every day you can.
Unloaded, verified, ammo in another room. Set a par time on a shot timer app. Five reps from concealment to a clean sight picture on a 3x5 card at seven yards. Start at 2.0 seconds. Drop 0.1 each week you clear all five. Stop when you miss the card. Write the time down. That number is the only review of your holster that matters.
Live fire. 25 rounds.
Five strings of five rounds at five yards on a five-inch circle, each string under five seconds, from the holster. All 25 in the circle under par is a pass. It's not fancy. That's the point. Run it before and after any gear change and you'll know in 25 rounds whether the change helped.
Dry fire, in the dark, with the weapon light you actually carry.
Momentary on, identify a target card across the room, off, move. Ten reps. Then do it with your off hand. If your switch needs a thumb contortion to activate, you'll find out here, not in a hallway at 2 a.m.
Dry fire with dummy rounds. 10 reps.
Spare mag where you actually carry it, under the clothes you actually wear. Most people discover their mag carrier is on the wrong side of a belt loop. Better to learn it now.
Range rules we actually follow
Every drill on this site assumes the four rules and a verified-unloaded gun for dry fire. We don't lecture about it because you already know. We mention it once, here, and then get on with it. Training content is educational. If you're new, get real instruction from a qualified instructor before you work from a holster.