Ammo is pricey enough that I don’t really want to spend more money on a bunch of fancy targets for my pistol training sessions. So, I’ve put my ink-jet to work and have been scouring the internet for drill ideas and PDFs of targets. Last week I printed out a “dot torture” drill target to shoot. It’s a great drill I found on pistol-training.com. (If you haven’t read ToddG’s blog and new forums, you’re missing out on some good pistol talk and training tips.) Just tape a few DIY 8.5″ x 11″ targets up over the cardboard backing or on the back of a B27 and you’ve got a customized target set for your session and less time wasted on target resets.

One of the other popular training aids is the 3×5 card. It’s used for speed and accuracy training. When I was at Staples grabbing some printer paper and 3×5 cards, I saw they had multicolored 3×5 Post-It notes –500 for $10. I know I can’t be the first guy to have figured this out, but it was a slap-on-the-forehead moment. Put them up fast –sans-Scotch tape; and they come in different colors that are useful for calling out specific actions.