Outstanding. I love it! If you have a service cap and want to keep it in perfect condition at home and when traveling, ya’ gotta get this! Click the here or picture for the link.
The Best Rifle with which to Start Drilling
Seriously, the best rifle to start drilling with at home would be the one that is the least expensive and would help you learn how to drill. You could then progress from there. What rifle is best to start out? The DrillMaster iDrill M1 or M1903 Rifle. Why? Because it costs less than $10 to make. Go to the Downloads …
Color Team Spacing
Reminder: Military-type = Color Team Marching band/winter guard = Color Guard Spacing There are two different ways a color team can line up when the teams forms: Line formation, abreast Column formation, behind each other When falling-in in line formation, the team should have a distance of four inches between the shoulders. This make room for all static movement. When …
Drill Pad Sizes
Call it what you want, “drill pad,” “drill area,” “drill floor,” or “drill deck,” we need to get some standardization in the American (and beyond) military drill world. For a drill competition (drill meet) there are different phases to the competition and each phase has a measured off area in which to compete. Exhibition and Regulation These drill phases both …
Weighting the DrillMaster iDrill Rifle
Over the past weekend I was talking with a relative of mine who is an engineer, he suggested Harbor Freight’s Wheel Weights. I thought this was a brilliant idea and started researching.
The DrillMaster iDrill Rifle!
Drillmaster shows you how to make your own rifle out of wood and gives you the free patterns for an M1 Garand or M1903!
Drillers: Adopt the Colorguard Rifle Toss
You can see that the rifles in this picture (Glendale DrillAmerica M1s) are rotating on the X and Y axes due to poor technique Remember, colorguard (color guard) = a marching band color guard. What’s the difference between a colorguard rifle toss and a military Driller’s rifle toss? Nothing. The mechanics are the same. “We Drillers catch differently.” Yes, I’m …
Bayonet, Bayonet, Who’s Got the Bayonet?
The DrillMaster Bayonet is for the M1 Garand and M1903 rifles, it is a real bayonet, but the blade tip is rounded, it does not have a sharp edge and has welds for extra stability- there is also an unwelded version. Armed drill has a certain amount of danger; drilling bladed ups the ante considerably. The DrillMaster Bayonet is a ‘safer’ …
Fitness and the Driller
Certain demands are placed on Drillers for each kind of routine they may march: solo, tandem, and drill team. With a solo performance, it’s all about the Driller and his/her capabilities With a tandem routine, the pressure is halved With a drill team performance the pressure is somewhat diminished Does this mean that Drillers on a team can relax and …
Regarding a Driller’s Bearing
Some Driller colleagues of mine tried to put together a list of what one might consider the “basics” of drill. However, this title brings Standing Manual, marching and even the manual of arms to mind. So, “basics” as the title does not work to fully describe this attempt. ”Bearing” however, does. From Thesaurus.com: Main Entry: bearing Part of Speech: noun …