HATEFUL A'S DRILL

Setting Up The Drill: Place your Target 8 Yards away from the firing line. Place your unloaded firearm (hammer down, slide forward) on the bench or barrel in front of you with 1 Magazine containing 4 rounds. Place 2 additional magazines with 2 rounds each either on your person or next to the first magazine.

Drill Instructions:
Shooter will begin with both wrists above shoulders either in the surrender position or with both hands on your head. Upon the audible start, shooter will retrieve their handgun and magazine containing 4 rounds from the bench/barrel in front of them, performing a mandatory reload before engaging the USPSA Torso target with 4 rounds. Shooter then must perform a slide lock reload before engaging the target with 2 rounds followed by an additional slide lock reload, engaging the target with your final 2 rounds.

Guns that have been modified in a way that remove slide lock functionality may still participate, but are required to rack/manipulate their slide each time and may not load magazines above the advised limits.

Scoring and Handicaps:
Your score is your final time with all handicaps accounted for. This is a Pass/Fail drill meaning all shots must land in the A zone to score.

+1.0s if your range is lame and makes you start with the firearm in your hand (should be rare)

+2.0s if you are Kilowatt or Evo (Just making sure you are reading carefully)

Safety note:
Any unsafe gun handling voids the run.

Summary:

“The Hateful A’s” drill is a modified version of the Hateful 8 drill created by Bill Blowers. Instead of a B-8 target, we’re using a USPSA Standard Torso to speed things up and make the practice translate more directly to competition shooting.

I know a lot of you are excited about the larger scoring zone, but our expectations go up with it. The idea behind “aim small, miss small” is that solid fundamentals should hold as you increase speed. Tight groups while pushing the pace will be the name of the game.

To add a little more challenge, we’ve included an extra reload at the start and placed the firearm off your body (instead of starting from the holster). A lot of us have built strong muscle memory around drawing from the holster, so let’s see how you perform when the gun isn’t attached to you.

If you’re looking for goals, I’d still call 8 seconds an excellent run. Most of you should aim for 10 seconds or less, but don’t get discouraged if it takes longer to earn a “passing” run at first. The whole point is improvement. You should’ve seen how my groups looked on my first run compared to the last run in the example video.