Dot Torture Target
Dot Torture is a multi-skill pistol drill on ten numbered dots — slow fire, draws, transitions, strong- and weak-hand shooting, and reloads across 50 rounds. Every shot must land in its dot to pass.
Print at 100% scale on US Letter (8.5 × 11 in).
At the range without a printout? This target ships free in the RoundKeep app — open Practice → Printable Targets and print or share the PDF straight from your phone.
- Dots
- 10 (numbered)
- Rounds
- 50
- Pass
- 100% accuracy
- Start distance
- 3 yd
How to shoot the Dot Torture Target
- 1Set up at 3 yards.
- 2Dot 1 — Draw and fire one string of 5 rounds slow fire, going for one ragged hole. (5 rounds)
- 3Dot 2 — Draw and fire 1 shot, holster, and repeat for 5 single-shot draws total. (5 rounds)
- 4Dots 3 & 4 — Draw, fire 1 shot on dot 3, transition and fire 1 shot on dot 4, holster; run 4 passes. (8 rounds)
- 5Dot 5 — Draw and fire one string of 5 rounds, strong hand only. (5 rounds)
- 6Dots 6 & 7 — Draw, fire 2 shots on dot 6, transition and fire 2 shots on dot 7, holster; run 4 passes. (16 rounds)
- 7Dot 8 — From the ready position, fire 5 shots weak hand only — no draw on this string. (5 rounds)
- 8Dots 9 & 10 — Draw, fire 1 shot on dot 9, speed reload, fire 1 shot on dot 10, holster; run 3 passes. (6 rounds)
- 9Score it: every shot must land inside its dot, and one miss fails the drill. A clean run is 50 of 50.
- 10If your range doesn't allow drawing from a holster, start each drawing string from the ready position instead.
- 11Once you can shoot it clean, move back to 5, then 7 yards — or add time pressure.
Drill created by David Blinder (personaldefensetraining.com) and popularized by Todd Green of pistol-training.com. RoundKeep provides only the printable layout and corner markers.
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This target has RoundKeep corner markers. Print it, shoot it, then photograph it with RoundKeep Zero. The app reads the scale from the markers and gives you your group size in inches, and the photo never leaves your phone.
- Every shot detected straight from the photo
- Group size in inches for each cluster
- Scale set automatically by the corner markers
