SHOOT AND MOVE DRILL

GENERAL

Conducted with two-man teams (Shooters A & B)
Total of 15 shots per man
100 Yard, man-sized (from waist up) targets (separate target for each shooter)
Any hit anywhere on the target “counts” for score
This is a timed exercise
Start point and two additional “stations” – one standing, one sitting, one prone
Best combination of low time and high score of hits wins

DESCRIPTION OF EXERCISE

Okay, your target is 100 yards away – to your right or left depending on which side of the shooting lane you start from. Initially I envision these being conducted such that your path of travel is perpendicular to your target. But as skills are refined and teammates grow more comfortable with one another, the angle of travel can be adjusted so that the shooters are “quartering” toward the target, or even moving directly toward the target. This is strictly a function of skills acquired and safety awareness.

The timekeeper starts the exercise. It is predetermined within the team who moves first and who covers first.

Shooter A (point man) dashes to the first station and assumes the shooting position called for by that station. (Note: assume start point will be standing, positioned by a tree or tall cardboard box. The other two stations will be items that force the shooter to take up either a sitting, kneeling or prone position)

Shooter B begins covering fire until he hears the first shot from Shooter A. B then dashes to the first station and begins covering fire again. Shooter A dashes to the next shooting position under the cover of B’s fire.

This continues until three stations and 15 shots are fired. Time is called and scores are calculated.

RULES:

1. Rifle MUST go on safe before movement commences. Maybe an observer should be charged with watching ONLY the moving shooter to ensure he’s put the weapon on safe for his dash. Violation results in ejection from the exercise. UPDATE: WE TRIED THIS AND IT IS NOT PRACTICAL. All you can really do is keep your finger off the trigger and carefully control your muzzle.

2. Moving shooter can NOT move until cover fire begins. Violation results in a hefty point penalty.

VARIATIONS FOR REALISM

As previously mentioned, we could adjust the angle on movement after we’ve gained a certain amount of comfort with the exercise. Ultimately we would have maybe a half dozen shooting stations that were positioned such that the shooters are closing the distance to the target. That might require a two tier system of counting hits (since the distance has been shortened). Also we could increase the number of shots required for each shooter such that a magazine change is required.

By changing the distance to the target, we could run many of these with 22 rifles and save on ammo. Ultimately they would be run using your preferred MBR.