 Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense. I'm out here in the range today and I'm gonna try the Valoridge pistol standards. These are the rifle standards. Let me see if I have a pistol standards around here somewhere. So just to give a little bit of context here. The Valoridge pistol standards, which are from Valoridge, which is Reed Hendricks down in Tennessee, are an excellent pistol standard. I watched a video of his a couple of years ago that where he did the pistol standards and they're also in his book on pistol crafts. I will either put those standards in the description here or put a link to them so that you can find them and kind of follow along. But this is me shooting the standards. All the body hits need to be in that eight inch circle in the body and all the head hits need to be above the lip and between the ears, ideally in that triangle. So that's how the match or the standard gets scored. You're allowed one miss per stage and then in order to pass the standards, you have to pass 11 out of 13 of the stages. So I hope that's clear, hope that makes sense. If you go over time, you fail the standard or the section. The stage, there we go. If you go over time, you fail the stage and then like I said, you're allowed one miss per stage. So this is me shooting them. This is really me shooting them. Like you're gonna see my real shooting and not just like a perfect run because I actually am a human being who misses sometimes. So this is my shot of them. If you haven't shot them, you should definitely take a swing at it. Mind shooting improved markedly when I started to master these standards because I couldn't do them the first time I shot them and it took me probably overall about a year, which I think I mentioned in the video. But without further ado, enjoy the Valley Ridge Pistol Standards. Okay, we're back. I found the pistol standards for real this time. Not sure if that's in focus or not. Hopefully it is. But anyways, that's what we're rolling with today. So I have a target here that I've shot up a little bit but I don't have any misses on it as of yet. As you can see, everything is in the, oh my gosh. There we go. Everything's in the circle and everything is in the triangle. So we should be good to go and we will see how this goes. We're at five yards. We got one round of the body in two seconds and we're gonna do that three times. One, five, seven. One, five, one. One, four, nine. Also, don't know if you can see this or not but I'm doing this from ALS Holster today. So, you know, just so you know, just to be honest here, not doing it from concealment today. Okay, that stage has passed. All hit so far. One shot to the head, two and a half seconds and I'm gonna do it two times. 2.1, I missed the triangle just above the lip though so I'm still good. One, seven, five. That one was also just above the lip so I'm good. Five yards, two to the body, one to the head. I have three seconds. Squib load. Fix the squib load. Now we're back to two to the body, one to the head. Three seconds. Two, three, four. Time is good and my hits are good. Weapon hand only, three to the body, three seconds. Two, four, nine. Time is good. Support hand only. Three to the body, three seconds. Two, two, one. Time is good, hits are good. We're gonna do a target check here just so you know I'm not cheating. There's my target. We're still looking good. We're going back to seven yards, four to the body in three seconds. Two, three, one. Time is good, hits are good. I think I have one miss. I'm not sure when that came in. I'll have to check the video, but I got one miss. I'm gonna go mark it. Okay, you're allowed to miss per stage so I'm still okay. All right, past all the stages so far. We're at seven yards, one to the head, three seconds. Right between the eyes, one, eight, three. I'm good on that. Okay, so this is one and then slide lock and then three more to the body. Let me get an empty mag. And I get five and a half seconds here. 4.19, time is good, hits are good. We're gonna go back to 10 yards and it's five rounds to the body in five seconds and then 10 rounds to the body in 10 seconds. I'm gonna let you see the target here. Here's my one miss. I don't know where that's snuck in, but other than that, we're all good. Five rounds to the body, five seconds. 3.19, time is good, hits are good. 10 rounds to the body, 10 seconds. I felt that one miss. I pushed that out. Time is good at six and a half and I definitely threw one. I felt myself shove that way down. That was embarrassing. You probably saw that on the camera. It's right here. I felt myself just shove that sucker down. All right, we're still good. Coming back to 15 yards. Three to the body in five seconds. 3.55, time is good, hits look good. All right, we're going back to 25 yards for five rounds in unlimited time. So at this point, I have passed the standard even if I fail the last two. You need to get 11 out of the 13 stages, so I passed them. So hopefully I can have a strong finish here and see how it goes. So I'm going to get a new mag and then I will be back. Five rounds, no time limit. I might have missed one. Let's go check. Yeah, I threw one over the shoulder, but I think that's it. So I think I still passed that stage. Let's take a look here. Okay, right there. There's my one miss at 25. This was at 10. Okay, so now I need one round at 50 yards. So I will just see if I miss it and we'll see how it goes. If I come back and I can't find it, I'm going to count it. So let's hope that system works out. It always looks better on camera than it is, but 50 yards is a win. I get 10 seconds. Ah, nah, that was a miss. That was a pretty bad miss actually. Looks like I clipped him in the arm here. It's right here on the line. So that's it. That's the Valor Ridge Pistol Standards I passed today, but obviously 50 yards is where I need to work, right? And that's pretty bad actually. I mean, sometimes I'll hit him in the stomach or whatever. I don't know if I've missed that bad in a while, but that's bad. And I'm actually really happy with the 25. The 25 stage is usually the stage that I struggle with the most. So the fact that I was able to get four out of five in there today, that's a big win. I'm super happy about that. No idea where this miss came in. I wish I knew when I saw that. I might catch it when I go back and watch the footage. It might've been from one of my support hand shooting, either my weapon hand or support hand shooting. But other than that, this is probably one of the better runs I've ever done. I've shot this drill a lot. It took me probably a year of intentionally working at it in order to be able to pass these standards. And now it's a lot easier than it used to be. So this is it. This is me doing the Valorage Pistol Standards, a great standard to shoot. And I would highly recommend you try it if you haven't already. So then, do brave deeds and endure.