Not long ago I tasted a delicious bite of humble pie. I got a bug up my butt to try out the Federal Air Marshall Qualification test. It looked easy. It wasn’t. In fact, it did a masterful job of exposing some problem-areas in my skill repertoire. After a short bout of self-pity, I decided to do something about by setting a summer goal to be able to sail through that qualification on demand.

I've been using this laser "snap cap" from LaserLyte. It allows you to see "impacts" with your regular gun.

I’ve been using this laser “snap cap” from LaserLyte. It allows you to see “impacts” with your regular gun.

So I started to do some daily dry fire drills in my home office. You know, the basics like drawing from concealment and getting a shot on “target” quickly. I also worked in some magazine changes. I quickly ran into two challenges. First, this type of practice is boring, so it’s easy to rationalize skipping a day. Second, there’s no way to measure improvement without an easy method of capturing times.

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