The Collateral Drill

Posted this over on PF as well.

The Collateral Drill

Fun stuff. Obviously we’re recreating the “yo homie is that my briefcase” scene from the movie. I decided on specific parameters for it, to go in my drill book.

Range: 1 yd, 2 yd.
Target: 2 silhouette, IDPA/USPSA type
Rounds: 5
Start position: concealed, hands at surrender

Setup: 1 target facing shooter at 1 yard, 2nd target at 90 degrees to the right, at 2 yards.

@ START, draw & fire 2 shots from retention at target 1, then 2 COM & 1 to head (Mozambique) at target 2.

Goal, 3 seconds w/ good hits (defined as -0 or -1/A or C on 1st target, -0/A and head on 2nd.

I ran it strong-side IWB, G17 irons-only. I did not bother with the initial move of swiping bad guy#1’s weapon down.

Also did not bother with the 6th, “anchor shot”, as he’s obviously in no hurry at that point, and target is down.

Appears to be done in roughly 2 seconds in the movie?

I ran it 3 times, first run cold, hadn’t shot pistol in a week:

2.95, 1st shot 1.46
2.56, 1st shot 1.32
2.75, 1st shot 1.32

All runs were good hits, as described above.

Was done for fun, and to “liven up” the training regimen, but seems the excercise does spotlight viable skills, such as rapid draw from concealment, retention shooting, pivoting on multiple targets, and of course the classic Mozambique.

Anyone else want to run it, so we can create a baseline of times?

ETA: hits from 1st run at 2.95

The shooting isn’t the hard part for me. It’s the draw. Especially from actual concealment.

I’ve watched that movie scene plenty of times, and I am impressed with the speed. I wonder how many takes it required.

Suggestion, since some of us are Left Handed and might have an advantage… set it up and run it twice, mirror-image the setup for second round.

Sounds fun! A natural stage for a “Shoot The Movies” themed match.

Interesting angle, I hadn’t considered that if doing it left handed, you’d have an advantage piviting on the 2nd target to the right, as you’d end up in a Weaver type hold, instead of having to pivot the top half?

I don’t move my feet when I run this, I just pivot, of course. Like the old “Stressfire Star”.

Yeah, pulling it off in 2 seconds is crazy, he must havr run through it 100 times to get there.

Larry Vickers does a quick take on it in a “Larry at the Movies” short on youtube.

I felt like 1.46 for my first shot on that run was slow as shit. Gotta try it AIWB.

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I have done variants of this several times with matched I have run. Here’s an example of one from last year at an indoor match I ran in Idaho:

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Awesome, yeah I’ve seen that a form of it has been an IDPA stage too in some places.

Shot it again a couple times today, this time from AIWB. And holy shit is it faster, as expected.

First round, cold. 2.50.

Happy with the hits too.

Nobody else wants to run this one?

It’s alot of fun!