The Bill Drill - Where Speed Meets Truth

"Under pressure, you don't rise to the occasion—you sink to your level of preparation." - U.S. Navy SEALs

The SEALs understand a fundamental truth about human performance: when the stakes are high and time is short, all pretense disappears. You become exactly what you've trained to be, nothing more. The Bill Drill applies this principle with surgical precision—six rounds from the holster into the USPSA A-zone at seven yards, as fast as humanly possible while maintaining fight-stopping accuracy.

This isn't just another drill. It's a pressure cooker that strips away excuses and reveals exactly where your fundamentals stand when it matters. In 1.96 seconds, everything you've practiced either works or it doesn't.

The Diagnostic Power

What makes the Bill Drill brutally honest is how it combines multiple skills simultaneously under time pressure. Your draw stroke must be crisp. Your grip must survive rapid recoil cycles. Your trigger control must remain disciplined while your brain screams "faster." Your sight acquisition must be instant and reliable.

Most importantly, it reveals the weakest link in your shooting chain. A loose grip shows up as vertical stringing. Poor trigger control appears as horizontal dispersion. Inadequate sight acquisition creates random hits outside the A-zone. The target doesn't lie about your preparation level.

The Standard

Sub-2 seconds with all hits in the A-zone represents solid fundamentals. Anything under 1.8 seconds approaches mastery level. But here's the key insight: a perfect 1.5-second run with three misses is worthless. A 2.1-second run with six center-mass hits wins fights.

The Bill Drill teaches the essential balance between speed and precision that SEALs know intimately. When your life depends on stopping a threat quickly and decisively, you'll sink to your level of preparation. Make sure that level is high enough.

Train the Bill Drill not just for time, but for truth. Let it reveal your weaknesses, then fix them one fundamental at a time.

--Range Drill--

Bill Drill

Creator: Bill Wilson (Wilson Combat), though also attributed to Bill Rogers or Bill Jordan

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