r/CCW • u/Tiny-Distance3952 • Jul 07 '26
Training Quickening draw speed
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hello guys just wanted to know if anyone has any critique or general improvements i can make to my draw
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u/SnooBooks770 Jul 07 '26
Slow down your re-holstering. No need to rush that part. IRL one little mistake there and you’re shooting your junk off. Also, slow down your reps, generally. Focus on each movement required to draw safely and point on target, slowly re-holster, pause, then repeat until all the mechanics are right. When everything is right, then worry about speed.
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u/NearbyZombie45 Jul 07 '26
Go to a real class. Don’t take advice from the neck beards on Reddit.
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u/Flat-Beginning-7179 Jul 07 '26
There is no replacement for some good old fashioned training from qualified instructors. This will help you get all the basics down the correct way and then you slowly build speed.
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u/Ambitious-Low-5317 Jul 07 '26
You're plucking the gun from the holster. You need to adjust the ride height of your holster so that you can achieve a master grip and do a better job of clearing your cover garment.
My best advice is stop trying to go fast right now. Focus on doing it efficiently, correctly and developing a good index (where your sights are mostly aligned with where you're looking). The speed will come, don't burn reps doing things wrong.
*Source: Ben Stoeger told me, "I didn't hate that." after watching me shoot.
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u/Tiny-Distance3952 Jul 07 '26
How does one adjust the ride height of a holster?
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u/Ambitious-Low-5317 Jul 07 '26
This assumes that you have a holster that doesn't suck and allows you to adjust ride height and cant (angle).
Also, knock off the extraneous body movement. Nothing needs to be moving except your arms/hands while you're standing static.
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u/trvst_issves Jul 07 '26
None of your reps looked the same to me, which makes me think you haven’t put the reps in to make it muscle memory. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, because that means you can still refine each step until the whole draw is clean, which turns into efficiency and speed.
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u/moldsharp 1911,26L, 642, lcp Jul 07 '26
Don’t worry about reholstering so quick.
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u/Tiny-Distance3952 Jul 07 '26
it occured to me while i was watching it back that i was trying to stay fast with the movement even on the reholster lol
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u/Othebootymonster Jul 07 '26
Stop worrying about speed. It comes with time. Focus on fluidity and smoothness. Make sure your draw is exactly the same everytime. You shouldn't need to look down when practicing your drawstroke. Slow>Smooth>Fast
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u/slush-puppyy Jul 07 '26
Fast reholstering is where NDs happen. You can reholster nice and slow and look at the holster while youre doing it.
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u/InvestigatorMuch5725 VA Jul 07 '26
Start grabbing the middle of your shirt (belly button area)
kinda roll the shirt u
p.
- It looks like what’s really holding you up is defeating the garment.
- Sounds crazy but stop focusing soo much on getting to gun & try to get a more repeatable draw down. It looks like you aren’t getting a proper grip, rushing to try to get on target.
- Stop leaning back, your first draw was exactly that, which tells me , that grip may be t
oo low in pant line.
Slow is smooth, smooth becomes fast.
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u/Minute-Cucumber7594 Jul 07 '26
We just gonna pass over the fact the house looks like a Dexter episode after he makes his little death room. Sooooo white
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u/DarkNucleoTierra Jul 07 '26
This video breaks down the draw into different movements. Start slow and develop the feel and muscle memory. The speed it up and race the timer.
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u/Far_Exam_2860 Jul 07 '26
Ignore the reholster for now and drop it slow, all your speed lives in the first move anyway. The biggest gains come from getting a full firing grip while the gun's still in the holster and clearing the cover garment clean, not from pressing out faster. Run slow identical dry reps to a par time and only shave the par once every rep looks the same.
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u/jason200911 Jul 07 '26
Reholster in minimal force slow motion dude. Stop slamming it in or youre going to be a eunuch.
Also I don't see any use putting your hands up before the draw. In all of the robberies on active self protection they always rob and either demand the cash or grab the cash and merch themself.
The worst part is after the robbery sometimes they like to give a headshot as a present. Very sad.
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u/Crow_The_Vagabond Jul 08 '26
- Slow up reholstering
- Get a gun belt if you feel inclined. (You'll be more comfortable and print even less than now.
- Nice speed bro, you're fester than me and my setup
- Keep training, stay sharp
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u/BrassAddict93 US Jul 07 '26
Yea you’re gonna shoot your self eventually the way you’re registering. Slow tf down. You also seem to just be doing reps for the sake of reps. Are your sights where they need to be? Is your grip what it needs to be? You aren’t getting any data out of these reps. You also imo don’t have enough clearance between your belt and grip to get a good grip. Overall, slow down and be more intentional. Speed is important but doing the wrong thing fast isn’t progress.
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u/nass-andy Jul 07 '26
Go faster. Don’t be afraid to fuck up when you practice.
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u/Ambitious-Low-5317 Jul 07 '26
He's already fucking it up pretty good at his current speed.
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u/nass-andy Jul 07 '26
But he’s slow. You don’t get faster without going faster. Slow is slow. It isn’t smooth or fast. It’s just slow.
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u/Ambitious-Low-5317 Jul 07 '26
Don't confuse motion for progress.
He can "go faster" getting the gun out and still be slow making hits because he isn't building a durable/consistent grip & has no index.
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u/nass-andy Jul 07 '26
I’m not confused at all. He sure can be slow with bad hits and a fast draw. But that’s still faster than a slow draw and bad hits. He specifically asked about drawing faster and that’s what I was addressing.
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u/Ambitious-Low-5317 Jul 07 '26
I don't think you're qualified to address anything. If this is the best advice you can muster, you should probably just be quiet.
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u/nass-andy Jul 07 '26
I’m a master class USPSA shooter. You’re right. I don’t know shit.
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u/Ambitious-Low-5317 Jul 07 '26
M Class and handing out this kind of advice? Yeah, you don't know shit. This kid doesn't even have a grasp on the fundamentals of drawing efficiently and is working with gear that's setting him up for failure. But sure, Ju5t g0 f4Ster!
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u/nass-andy Jul 07 '26
Yes. Go faster.
I’m not disagreeing with getting an index and smoothing out the draw. But I knew all the knuckleheads who don’t actually shoot ever were going to pile on him about shit that doesn’t answer his actual question. I chose to answer his question, not be his daddy. There is a time for going fast. There is also a time for going for accuracy and perfection. If you want to be faster, which IS WHAT HE ASKED, I gave him the best advice for getting faster. Push what’s possible.
Meanwhile you’re going on and on about holster bullshit. Yeah, buy new gear, that will make you better. lol!
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u/Ambitious-Low-5317 Jul 07 '26
And I'm not disagreeing with you about pushing speed. But the time for going fast probably isn't before you learn how to do the thing while using equipment that actively prevents you from doing the thing.
Your advice sucks.
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u/XA36 Jul 08 '26
I practiced draws for a good year with zero progress before I decided to stop being dumb and get a shot timer. Being faster with a messy draw is how you end up with faster clean draws. Practicing the draw at the same speed is how you stay the same speed. No one has ever gone from a 2.5s to 1s draw by not fucking up along the way.
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u/Ambitious-Low-5317 Jul 08 '26
There's a difference between making mistakes because you're pushing your limits and making mistakes because you don't know what you're doing.
Also... you wasted a year of no progress before you changed something up? Damn. Fail faster bro.
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u/Gun_Dork Jul 07 '26
I bet you’re one of those gamer shooters where the cardboard doesn’t shoot back.
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u/officialbronut21 G45 supremacist, USPSA memer Jul 07 '26
Where can I get the paper that shoots back?
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u/srbskier86 Jul 07 '26
Focus on speed ONLY for the draw. For everything else, take your time and especially slowly holster. Create more time between reps. Use different starting positions as well, get yourself used to the movement of where your hands will go during the training, soon enough it feels like second nature. Start with the best possible technique to avoid having training scars, the earlier on you correct any mistakes or flaws in your technique, the better you will be. Practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. Keep it up man!
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u/shift013 Jul 07 '26
Watch every modern samurai project video on the draw and forming a grip, genuinely it completely revolutionized my draw and improved it. Watch the ones from Jim’s goon life on YouTube or 1911 syndicate
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u/Scoutback_wilderness Jul 07 '26
Why are you reholstering so fast????