How to Disengage a Target When Pistol Shooting

Video Transcript

"Okay, we've just covered advancing on a target while walking forward. What we're going to do now is we're going to engage a target while moving rearward, or in reverse. The same principles apply, but there's two ways you can do it. It's always easier to retreat, or to reverse your direction, faster than it is to advance on your direction. So, if I was going -- if I had already advanced forward and now it's time for me to reverse my direction rearward, I can do the same thing. But instead of going heel to toe, it's toe, heel. So, I'm in my good shooting stance, engaging the target, heel, toe, heel, toe, heel, toe, heel, toe. Or, I can do what they call the step and drag. So if I'm here, and I'm engaging my target, it's not uncommon for me to take a step and to drag. Step and to drag. Step and to drag. Which is one of the most common ways of doing the rearward disengage, is to drag. People are more comfortable with dragging than they are picking their feet up, because you don't know what's behind you, and it may give you that uncomfortable feeling. But people who are uncomfortable picking their feet up stand them down like this. And it's harder to stay on a tightrope when you're doing this, unless you practice it faithfully. So those are the two rearward movements to disengage from a target in a rearward motion. You have the toe, heel, and you have the step and drag. Step and drag."