I shoot a fair amount. At least once a week and have for the last nine years. I am really into revolvers now (I actually own more of them than semi autos now) and have been wringing out the bugs in my USPSA rig and doing dry fire practice. I noticed something simple but seemingly fundamental during my first lengthy practice last night. After 48-56 dry fires (which is about the end of my ammo supply that I can carry on me) my trigger speed slows WAY down. I am used to shooting double action revolvers just not 48 times as fast as I can reload. Is this normal for you revolver competitors or do you guys have some work out routine you do all day every day while at work with a grip strengthening device to get your trigger finger stronger? I have a wolff competition spring set in the gun and while it makes the trigger really nice its still fatiguing to pull that many times that quickly.

Just keep doing that dry fire practice and soon you will build up you finger strength and you will not be fatigued as quickly.  Also remember in an actual stage you wont be shooting that fast for the whole stage.  With movement and longer shots mixed in you will have short breaks and times when you are shooting slower for accuracy.  Those will all help keep you from getting fatigued by the end of the stage.

Thank you for the advice.

Is there a worthwhile device or tool I can put in my pocket and have with me at work so I can use it while walking around working? I know about the grip strengthener things with springs in them but I don't know if the tension is enough to get what I want out of them

Captains of Crush

I see they have a starter set that begins at 140lb. I imagine that if I could master #2 I would probably be good to go. I wonder what jerry miculek uses for grip strength training.

I imagine Jerry has grip strength from 40 years worth of shooting.

Bob Vogel uses CoC.


I can close the #2 and everyone always comments on my handshake, lol.


This offseason/winter I'm going to train grip hard and try to close the #3.

somebody told me years ago, that Jerry M used to drive a truck, and had a S&W frame ( no barrel or cylinder) with a 20+lbs spring, and he'd dry fire it all day while driving


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Well I went out and shot 250 rounds through the gun today over a few hours. I also put 75 rounds through my s&w 29. Out of the 325 rounds I shot all but maybe 25 were double action. All in all I didn't have the issues I thought I would. In the 627 I would shoot up to four, eight shot clips through it one after another at my steel plate.