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Dry fire drills what do you do?
With the cost of ammo or just the unavailibility of ammo right now, what drills or practice do you do to train at home? I need to get some practice in somehow, just sucks that I can't afford to shoot lol
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Pistol Rifle Shotgun?
Got an Iphone? Download the surefire shot timer and practice your draw stroke. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/inde...&#entry1097919
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I do a lot of dry fire practice from the holster with this:
http://www.laserlyte.com/products/lt...on-tyme-target and practice malfunction drills. |
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Trigger control (know exactly where it breaks).
Sight alignment and follow through as hammer falls. Transition from target to target (driving the sights there). Strong hand, weak hand dry firing. Hand to hand transfer drill. Sight picture to sight picture mag changes. Sight alignment and transition from target to target with trigger pressure applied just to the point of break, but not quite. Done while walking on a treadmill (teaches you to shoot the sights while shooting on the move). Trying to time the shots with foot position is a Loser when shooting on the move, just learn to shoot the sights. One handed gun grabs from flat table surface (teaches you how to pick up a pistol AND get a good grip). You don't always start shooting from a holster. All sight pictures are done using a series of post-it notes stuck on a wall about 6-8 feet away. Last edited by GeoffLinder; 01-20-2013 at 9:51 AM.. |
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Are you serious? Might as well be running an airsoft then. The only way to know any gun you have will work is with live ammo. For example I just bought a Kahr CW9 and put 100 rounds thru it after the USPSA match last Saturday. After I run 1,000 or so rounds thru it, I will put it on my permit.
I run 200-400 rounds thru my Glocks every weekend at a match so I know they work. |
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Uh, do you like know what a range is? How old are you, by the way?
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" With the cost of ammo or just the unavailibility of ammo right now, what drills or practice do you do to train at home?" Last edited by HapaMan; 01-22-2013 at 6:34 AM.. |
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You never answered my first question. Have you ever had factory ammo not go bang?. I guess not because you don't have any ammo. And you didn't say how old you are, I guess because your mom has to buy your ammo. I don't do dry fire drills, I do live fire drills. Thats how you know your gun works.
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Hey man,
Check out Ben Stoeger's 15 minute dry fire program. It's very effective and time efficient. http://benstoeger.myonlineplace.org/...d=46&Itemid=64 |
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Also, I have plenty of ammo, thank you. Exact amount posted on here, but since you can't read, you can't do a search either, I guess. If you don't do dry fire drills at home, then why did you even participate in this thread? Get your eyes checked (and your condescending attitude at the same time). Last edited by HapaMan; 01-22-2013 at 1:26 PM.. |
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...m.stimer&hl=en It has sensitivity settings for dry fire and a "random delay" option for the buzzer up to 10 seconds. Handy if you can't convince the little lady to spend half an hour standing behind you pressing "start". |
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I use drills found in Steve Anderson's book as a basis and integrate tips and tricks I've learned from other people as well as their unique dry fire drills. One of the things that helped me a lot is to actually dry fire my live fire practice.
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I plan to buy and airsoft which I think was a great suggestion mentioned above. They make these things exactly like the real gun and you can at least get the feel of the gun while practicing.
The issue is dry fire is only going to get you a little feed back but not do much good after a certain amount. You need to shoot live ammo and practice. Maybe get a .22 pistol just to work on basics. |
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Validate your dry fire every so often with specific live fire drills and shoot some matches. But 75% dry fire and 25% live fire is better than the other way around for fast improvement, especially for those who are early in the learning curve. 10 hours of dry fire and one hour of live fire validation per week and a match or two a month is going to get you to master class a whole lot faster than the other way around. Whole lot cheaper too! Airsoft is a useful addition to the process, but not a hugely great thing on it's own IMHO. Nothing beats pulling through on the actual trigger you will be using and learning to keep the sights rock steady while the hammer falls. Last edited by GeoffLinder; 01-23-2013 at 6:59 AM.. |
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What game do you shoot? |
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I practice shooting on the move dry-firing while walking on a treadmill. I know what works from hard earned experience, not from armchair quarterbacking. How about, you, what game, what experience level? |
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Yes I would completely agree live fire still needs to be done, I am just trying to supplement dry fire into my training, as we al know ammo prices and availability is a little unpredictable at the moment. While I have have ammo, I'm am being conservative in my use of what I have until our hobbies future becomes a little clearer.
Thanks to everyone for the links and tips. Please keep them coming. I am of the attitude that you can always learn something no matter how much we think we know or how good we think we are! |
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In the first one in the Training Tools chapter they talk about Dry-Fire as well saying: "... for every live-fire trigger press, you should accomplish 5 in dry-fire."
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Their drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills. - Historian Josephus (AD 37-101) on the Roman military |
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Note: You save $6 if you buy both together.
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Their drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills. - Historian Josephus (AD 37-101) on the Roman military |
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Their drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills. - Historian Josephus (AD 37-101) on the Roman military |
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We did some of his dynamic dry fire drills at his CombatSpeed Pistol class on December 15-16, 2012. Very structured, rhythmic and encompasses two hands as well as strong and support hand only. Like everything with him it's all about thousands of repetitions. Looking forward to it.
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Their drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills. - Historian Josephus (AD 37-101) on the Roman military Last edited by ramzar; 01-24-2013 at 9:41 PM.. Reason: Correction from 2013 to 2012 |
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By the way, what competition venue did you say you shoot? Oh, never mind, you didn't, that's because you don't. Last edited by HighLander51; 01-23-2013 at 7:07 PM.. |
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Uhm... I guess you have a DeLorean huh?
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Now that I'm back from the future and can report no serious ammo shortages the error has been corrected.
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Their drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills. - Historian Josephus (AD 37-101) on the Roman military |
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Tagalog: Sana mag-dilang anghel ka.
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If not, I'm picking up archery (olympic, competition, tactical, hunting and self-defense) with recyclable arrows. If that fails back to stone axes caveman-style!
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Their drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills. - Historian Josephus (AD 37-101) on the Roman military |
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Youtube has a video for the IDPA qualifier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYpKGHFDaOw I run it through my blueray/wifi player hooked up to my TV. Shooting the tv from 6 ft away, practicing tactical reloads with snap caps is amusing to my kids and pets. |
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