Overrated Shooting Drills: What Works Instead
Overrated Shooting Drills: What Works Instead. Double drills and close-range exercises dominate social media, but most shooters extract little value. Learn which drills actually improve accuracy and how to { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/gateway_defense#person", "name": "Gateway Defense", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/gateway_defense", "description": "Gateway Defense is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/2701e160-87f4-4bf3-877a-148e403b939a.jpg" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/overrated-shooting-drills-training-guide#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/overrated-shooting-drills-training-guide" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/overrated-shooting-drills-training-guide", "headline": "Overrated Shooting Drills: What Works Instead", "name": "Overrated Shooting Drills: What Works Instead", "description": "Double drills and close-range exercises dominate social media, but most shooters extract little value. Learn which drills actually improve accuracy and how to", "articleSection": "Training & Skills", "articleBody": "Overrated shooting drills aren't bad drills — they're drills that produce almost no usable data for the time and ammo you feed them. That's the argument from Gateway Defense in Terminal Takes Ep. 03 , filmed between flights, and it targets two training habits that dominate range sessions and social media clips: the standard doubles drill run on a static target, and the entire category of work done on big open targets inside 5 yards. Neither one is worthless. Both are misused. The doubles drill fails because most shooters walk up to the target, see a spread of Charlies and Deltas, and have no framework for deciding what to change. The close-range work fails because 3 to 5 yards is so forgiving that a sloppy grip still prints alphas — and a target that forgives everything teaches you nothing. What follows is the Gateway Defense fix for both: a hard accuracy standard, a distance ladder that exposes where your mechanics break, and a reframe of close targets as throttle-control tools rather than confidence builders. Key Takeaways Gateway Defense sets the training accuracy standard at 80–90% alphas — eight or nine hits out of ten before you're allowed to move back. Five-round strings reveal more than pairs, because grip, structure, and vision degrade measurably over the course of five shots. Groups shot at 5 yards are unreadable: there isn't enough flight distance for a low-left tre…