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Training should give you fallbacks for worst-case scenarios. Here, author drills on weak-hand-only with his Glock 22.

It has been said that experience is the collected aggregate of our mistakes. But wisdom, said Otto von Bismarck, is learning from the collected aggregate of the mistakes of others. That’s why we read and study and reach out beyond our own experiences.

Don’t assume that statistics are right, and you’ll only be in a gunfight at point-blank range. Here bodyguard Lars Lipke deploys his HK P7M13 at 50 yards, from standing position…

How do you best practice? This way: Stop practicing! This doesn’t mean that you don’t shoot or drill in your movement patterns or perform repetitions of tactical skills. It means that if before you practiced, now you train!

Practice can easily turn into just hosing bullets downrange. Often, you wind up reinforcing bad habits instead of enforcing good ones. Training, on the other hand, is purpose-oriented. Where practice can easily degenerate into “just going through the motions,” training sharpens and fine-tunes every motion. If practice was going to be a couple of hundred rounds downrange, training might be as little as 50 rounds, but all fired with purpose. You, the box of ammo, and the electronic timer (one of the best investments you can make in your own skill development) head to the range. Instead of creating 200 pieces of once-fired brass, your goal is 50 draws to the shot. Each will be done in a frame of time that satisfies you and results in a good hit, or you’ll analyze the reason why not and correct what’s going wrong.