Posted: 4/17/2008 8:18:08 AM EDT
| Anyone have any dry firing drills while at home? |
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Dry firing is an excellent method for training. It helps develop muscle memory and it helps you develop a good trigger pull. If you have problems with flinching, dry firing is a great way to overcome that. Also, it helps you obtain a good sight picture quicker. I try to dry fire practice before I go to the range, just to re-familiarize myself with the motions of things like drawing from a holster, transition drills, etc. All you need is a nice aiming point, a piece of tape on the wall works for me. |
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Claude Werner is one of the better firearms instructors around. He's head instructor at Bill Rogers's school here in GA. Claude is a huge advocate of dryfire. His kit has helped a lot of local folks really advance in their shooting skills. www.firearms-safety.info/ |
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We did about an hour's worth of dry firing at my CCW course recently. Since then I've been doing a bit every day here at home. I just pick something on the wall and go at it for 5 min or so. There's probably a better way to approach it, but I can see that I get a more consistant grip now and I get on my front sight quicker. Any thoughts on how repeated dry firing affects a 1911? Probably not a problem at all, but if I need something like a snap cap it'd be a small price to pay. |
All centerfire guns are OK to dry fire. You should get some snap caps anyway for malfunction drills. |
No negative effects aside from calloused hands. I did a TriCon TCP class where over a period of 2 days, we did 4000 reps, which included 25 dry fires of one movement and then one live fire. Repeat for several dozen times. I regularly dry fire each evening for an hour or so, watching for front sight movement as well as practicing working the slide and pressing the shot at max extension. |
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www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php? Great resource for Dry firing info |
+1 I like dummy rounds for two reasons: 1) as you say, malfunction drills. 2) when dry firing if the dummy round feeds you can be certain the guns is empty (well, except for the orange plastic round  ) |
That's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. |
Look up A-Zoom snap caps. You can get them in most of those calibers. Cabelas, for instance, sells them. |
...and because if you do a significant amount of dryfire training you run the risk of breaking your weapon. I've personally busted the firing pins on a few centerfire handguns from dryfire training....including on a carry weapon. Snapcaps are cheap insurance. |
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I prefer the ST Action snap caps. They are very durable and best of all, when you're in class, the flourescent orange tip shows up in the dirt much better. Also for night evolutions, the orange tip glows under blue LED light, making finding your snap caps a piece of cake. ST Action |
At the range, I will have who ever I am shooting with load a couple of mags for me and "hide" a snap cap somewhere in the stack. That way I don't know what round will fail, seem to me like a more "real world" scenario. |
| of the 10,000rds that i fire a year probally 3 times that amount i dry fire. first ensuring that my gun is clear and there is no ammo or loaded magazines within my area, i get a piece of tape and put on the wall, sometimes use a laser to see what the gun is doing as i squezze the trigger, and then i go from there. i also do my emergency reload, and tac reloads, training in the home. |
Do you do all of that w/ the mags loaded up w/ snap caps? (like these A-Zooms) |