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JTH:
I'd like to get better at physical shooting skills in 2016.  To do that, though, I'm going to need to actually practice.  (I did some decent shooting in 2015, but I didn't practice nearly enough to really get better.)

Awhile back I designed a simple, straightforward dryfire drill that people could do easily every single day:  Drill Zero.  I wanted to create a drill that would make a significant difference to shooting quickly and accurately, but was simple, straightforward, took little time, and required almost nothing in the way of equipment or space.

There are a ton of people out there who participate in 1000-day DryFire Challenges and so on (mudnrox here I believe managed one!) so I'm inviting everyone here to join me in a 2016 Dryfire Challenge.

Here's a report card:  2016 Dryfire Report

Simply color in every day you spend at least SOME time increasing your physical skills with a firearm.  (Whether dryfire, live fire, or testing your skills in a class or competition.)

If you think that you can't get to the range that often (completely understandable!) and you don't have time every day to strap on all your gear for dryfire practice (that happens too) then read about Drill Zero, and use that so that you get at least SOME practice every day.

https://precisionresponse.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/2016-resolution-i-practicing-drill-zero/

My personal goal for 2016 is that every single day I will practice physical pistol skills in some fashion, and on the Dryfire Report I’m going to mark in black days I do Drill Zero, blue the days I do longer dryfire sessions, red the days I live fire practice, and green the days I test myself either in competitions or in training classes.

If I miss my goal---well, I'll keep going on and seeing how many days I can keep making myself better.  If at the end of the year I don't meet my goal but I still practiced 300 out of the 365 days, I'm still going to get better.  I've already marked out in black the first two days of the year--got my Drill Zero done yesterday and today--and tomorrow I get to color in a green spot because we have a USPSA match.

Anyone else want to do this, too?  Pretty easy--just get a copy of the Dryfire Report!  Who's with me? 

tstuart34:
I'm in thanks you!

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abbafandr:
Nothing to lose,  I'm in

HuskerXDM:
I'm in.

JTH:
Well, I got my first green square on the record sheet today---shot the USPSA match at ENGC.  (The weather wasn't that bad, actually---no wind, and it was sunny out.) 

The match itself was a good explanation of exactly why I need to practice my eye focus and trigger control on a daily basis---I ended up winning Production, but only because the other two top folks in Production ALSO screwed up just as many stages as I did.

In Production, you really need to be shooting a MINIMUM of 90% of the available points, without giving up any speed.  Those are the folks that are doing well.  And in this match, I had two mikes (unacceptable ever) and *7* D-hits (which should be unacceptable ever, really).  Considering there were only four stages, that's pretty sad.  There was only one difficult target in the entire match, and that was only because it was a little farther off than normal, and yet, my accuracy was poor.  (Only shot 84.91% of the available points.  That's not going to win any level II matches...)

....because in a number of cases, I was pulling the trigger without a solid focus on the front sight.  Sure, there are plenty of targets where you can use a half-target-focus, and get perfect A-hits.  But often you can't, and if you still try to shoot with that half-target-focus, you are going to drop points.

That was me today.  (I also just yanked the trigger on a couple of occasions, so as always, my trigger control needs work.)

Drill Zero should help with both of those main problems.  My movement was good, my gun handling wasn't bad (outside of one memorable didn't-quite-manage-it-reload), and my stage plans were just fine. 

...I just need to use the sights and have good trigger control.  Minor issues, right?   :o

While I think local matches are tons of fun, I REALLY like the fact that they are tests of your shooting skills---and they show really quickly what you need to work on.

Apparently for me, Drill Zero is what I need to work on.  A LOT.  :)

How about you guys?  What do you think of Drill Zero?  Any thoughts about it?  If you shot the match, what did it tell you about your shooting?

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