One of my favorite uses for an airsoft involves taping an IDPA target to the front of my heavy punching bag. Then, starting from ranges as close as 6-inches, (chest to bag) I\'ll strike, elbow, or knee . . . step back with left palm to forhead (for a guard) as I draw and fire from retention. The paint pellets show up on the IDPA target just fine. Also, a Shoot-N-See target can go into the -0 zone of the IDPA target and will show hits from the plastic BBs.
When you work with a partner, the key is to designate a good guy and a bad guy at the beginning of the drill. Then the rules are that the good guy always wins and the bad guy always loses. The bad guy may take several solid hits to put down or the good guy may have to keep fighting after taking some hits but the good guy still wins. This keeps it from turning into an \"I got you first!\" tussle.
The Teuller drill is an excellent place to start for Airsoft FOF drills. For the first run, the good guy starts at 30-feet with a holtered and concealed airsoft gun. The bad guy has a face mask and an empty 2-liter coke bottle to use as a club. The bad guy starts the drill by charging. The good guy can move, draw and shoot and tries to hit the bad guy before being bludgeoned with the empty, plastic, coke bottle. As he get\'s better, the starting range can decrease from 30-feet to 28, then 26, and so-forth. The bad guy should start at first by being \"stopped\" by the first solid hit and then later requiring multiple hits to go down.
Chuck