Today at the range we decided to play with some more realistic looking targets and some 3D targets. Today we were specifically playing with head shots. We plan to look for some body targets as well.
I went down to Hobby Lobby and bought a couple of these:
The male head was $10.00. The alien head (female) was $5.00. I was skeptical of how they would hold up on the range. I was pleasantly surprised.
We set it up like this:
We started out with a couple of FAST drills to get going.
The stick that holds the head on kind of worked to approximate a mock spinal column in the upper chest. (Or that's how I am justifying screwing up my target in my first drill. )
After that we moved on and just started experimenting with the head as a target from different perspectives and looking at the through path of the bullet through the head, trying to give some analysis to which parts of the head were bony and difficult to penetrate.
For people training and practicing to shoot in defensive or combat type situations it seems important to recognize that the body is three dimensional target and that point of aim for the most effective shots is going to change depending on your visual perspective of the target and its orientation to you. This was one attempt for us to do that and bring it in to our practice on the range.
I went down to Hobby Lobby and bought a couple of these:
The male head was $10.00. The alien head (female) was $5.00. I was skeptical of how they would hold up on the range. I was pleasantly surprised.
We set it up like this:
We started out with a couple of FAST drills to get going.
The stick that holds the head on kind of worked to approximate a mock spinal column in the upper chest. (Or that's how I am justifying screwing up my target in my first drill. )
After that we moved on and just started experimenting with the head as a target from different perspectives and looking at the through path of the bullet through the head, trying to give some analysis to which parts of the head were bony and difficult to penetrate.
For people training and practicing to shoot in defensive or combat type situations it seems important to recognize that the body is three dimensional target and that point of aim for the most effective shots is going to change depending on your visual perspective of the target and its orientation to you. This was one attempt for us to do that and bring it in to our practice on the range.