Dry Fire Practice: The Pistol Shooting Secret
Greetings all. I have received much positive feedback regarding my last article, 'Maximizing Your Range Time' and as promised have completed my next article regarding the importance of Dry Fire Practice. I hope you enjoy.
Check it out a the link below:
Dry Fire Practice: The Pistol Shooting Secret
http://missionspec.com/articles/dry-fire-the-pistol-shooting-secret/Great article! I will put this into practice.
Good stuff, thanks.
Awesome, thanks.
Good write up, if you want to take it a step farther look at
Ben's Program. Geared towards competition but it will help anyone.
Also if you take a piece of tape between the barrel and the slide it will hold it slightly out of battery and you will be able to get some movement out of the trigger on a Glock. You won't get the break but it is better than nothing.
ziebart: the 'break' is a critical part of Dry Fire Practice. I don't know why you would want to defeat it.
The black text on brown background is a little hard on the eyes.
I may have missed it, but one should also spend some time learning the trigger reset as well. Dry-fire as you described, keep trigger pulled fully to the rear, rack slide, and then slowly let trigger out until it resets. Then repeat.
brentk7 - Yes when learning the trigger the break is the most important thing there is and the tape trick would defeat that. I was just putting that out as an option. You will see if you are slapping the trigger on double taps or controlled pairs even if you don't have the break. Also many of the drills Ben Stoeger posted require 2 shots on target and this is the best way I have found to simulate that.
Originally Posted By ziebart:
brentk7 - Yes when learning the trigger the break is the most important thing there is and the tape trick would defeat that. I was just putting that out as an option. You will see if you are slapping the trigger on double taps or controlled pairs even if you don't have the break. Also many of the drills Ben Stoeger posted require 2 shots on target and this is the best way I have found to simulate that.
To each his own I guess but I would strongly recommend that you treat a double tap (or controlled pair) as two completely independently aimed shots that are fired as fast as you (the shooter) can ensure two hits. As I state in my other article
Maximizing Your Range Time
Just to be clear, I am not dogging on your technique but I feel it is a mistake to train your followup shots differently then every first round shot. So the only way to truly train for a controlled pair is to use live ammunition, in my opinion. But most of your time should be spent with individual (successful) shots, mostly via Dry Fire.
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SIRT pistols or Glock R's can be useful dry fire aids. The trigger resets like you were really shooting.
