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Posted: 5/8/2006 9:20:59 AM EDT
| Just wondering since to solo dry fire with a rod an a dime is almost impossible to do on your own without someone to keep putting the dime back on the rod, is there any tools out there that address this issue so you don't need a partner? |
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When dry practicing, just aim at a target. Obtain your "stance", get a proper sight alignment, sight picture, press the trigger, and follow through. If you do everything correctly, your sight picture will not move. If you notice that you jump, dip, drift, flinch, jerk, etc... do it again until you just go click and nothing moves. Do 10 in a row with perfect execution and then stop, and for no more than 1/2 an hour. You want your body and brain to get that "feel" and muscle memory, there is no need to marathon it. Just like any repetitive practice, there is only so much perfect shooting you can do with out actually firing off real rounds. The whole rod and dime thing is so that someone watching you (buddy, instructor, etc...) can see if you jump, dip, drift, flinch, jerk, etc... but you the shooter will know if you do. There is no need to "prove" anything. Just pay attention to your sights. The proof will be the next time you are on the range. Also dry practice on the range once you start to feel that you are loosing control of your shots. Force your brain to cooperate by telling it not to compensate for the recoil (flinch) by eliminating it with some dry practice shots. |
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I have seen a rod inserted into the barrel used as an target marking device. The instructor would put a dowel with a sharpened (front) end into the barrel and into the chamber. The firing pin would then ping on the back of the rod and the point would hit a piece of paper about 1" away from the muzzle. Needless to say, I think this is rather pointless (no pun intended). As for dryfiring, there is this tapered dowel thing that fits behind the firing pin in the bolt carrier which prefents the hammer from falling all the way forward (see picture bellow). The idea here was to not only prefent wear on the firing pin collar, but to allow for a shorter stroke of the charging handle to obtain a trigger reset. I made one out of a wooden dowel, and I found no real benifit other than playing a practical joke on a friend (non permanent rendering of his rifle to be in-operable).  MORE INFO HERE |
Kinda off topic, but…not pointless. Never did that with an AR or M16 but……….. I forgot where I read this, might have been an Army FM on pistol marksmanship, but they suggested wrapping a pencil in two places with masking tape, just enough to fit into your pistols barrel. Aiming just an inch or so away from a piece of paper attached to a wall, when the trigger is pulled the pencil will slide forward impacting the paper. I’ve used this technique with my SIG 225 and it works. |
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