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2016 Dryfire Challenge!
JTH:
--- Quote from: Captdad17 on May 03, 2016, 07:07:07 AM ---First off, I like the dryfire report. Nice layout and easy to read. Hope you don't have any copyrights to it, cause I'm stealing it.
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Well, I did post it so other people could use it. :) You might take a look at the PRT blog entry that goes with it for some ideas regarding its use if you haven't already.
--- Quote ---Second, not sure if it's been discussed here before, but I was wondering if anyone out there has had any success with the LaserLyte dryfire training system?
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I'm not a real fan of that one---the laser tends to die really easily, and the consistency of aim is...problematic, from what I've seen.
I have a much higher opinion of Laser Ammo than pretty much any other version of laser hardware. (I also like switching out my normal gun with a SIRT pistol periodically.) Using Laser Ammo and SIRT, along with the LASR software (developed by people here in Nebraska) is some seriously good stuff. I don't use it often, but periodically I supplement my regular dryfire practice with some drills using LASR.
http://lasrapp.com/
--- Quote ---Third, looking for suggestions for best dryfire drills (or direction to be pointed in somewhere else in the forums).
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For shooting skills, probably the two best books out there for dryfire practice are Steve Anderson's Refinement and Repetition: Dry-fire Drills for Dramatic Improvement and Ben Stoeger's second practical pistol book.
Anderson's book: http://www.amazon.com/Refinement-Repetition-Dry-fire-Dramatic-Improvement/dp/1930847769
A good starter pack for dryfire (especially for competition, but it will help ALL shooting skills) is here: http://benstoegerproshop.com/dryfire-book-combo-pack-dry-fire-training-for-the-practical-pistol-shooter-paperback-book-and-scaled-targets/
Ben has a number of different books out for practice, the first of which (Champion Shooting, a Proven Process For Success at Any Level) is also very good.
My PRT article that gave the dryfire report also talked about the fact that many people excuse themselves from daily dryfire practice because they say they don't have time---and so I came up with Drill Zero as something people could do every single day no matter what. Later, I made another video and blog entry with some variations on Drill Zero that could also be done (regular Zero one day, a variation the next, etc).
Drill Zero (and its variations) aren't substitutes for more rigorous (and more varied) dry practice, but it IS a good drill to make certain that every day, you are working on getting better.
JTH:
Well, another month down---and THIS time I finally managed to get through a whole month without missing any days! (March was----bad. April, however, I got some good practice in.)
Oddly enough, none of the effects of that practice showed up in the MATCH that I just shot (which was the worst overall classifier match that I've shot in about 5 years, I think. Literally, by percentages), but that doesn't surprise me--what I screwed up at the match wasn't what I had been working on in dryfire.
Apparently, I need to add another particular issue/topic to my dryfire practice. :'(
(More on that in a different post, in which I also talk about Dot Torture. I know, I already said once that I'd write about it. Haven't had time yet!)
....in general, the things I've been practicing in dryfire have gotten better. The things I've been practicing in live fire have demonstrated gains based on my dry practice.
And I still have a long way to go. But I knew that already. :)
JTH:
Been awhile---but I've kept practicing, and have been keeping up documenting my practice. How about everyone else? Still doing it?
There have been about 196 days so far this year, and I've missed practicing on 11 of them. (Like I said, March was a bad month, and gave me almost half of those missed days.)
You can certainly tell when my summer schedule started! All those reds...interestingly enough, I need to actually spend more time on my dryfire, even when I can get to the range. I can push myself in dryfire considerably more than I'm comfortable with in live fire, and if I don't dryfire, then I don't push as much.
That being said, right now my main emphasis is on trigger control during recoil, for which I need live fire. (It is one of the few things that you can't do in dryfire.)
Just shot the Great Plains Sectional this past weekend, and on half the stages what I've been practicing showed clearly----my times were good, and my accuracy was excellent.
On several others, I was mediocre, and obviously sometimes wasn't doing what I needed to do.
On two stages, however, I completely ignored what I've been practicing, and when everything started going wrong, I didn't change what I was doing and it hurt me horribly at the match.
[sigh]
So much more work to do.
I just signed up for the Kansas Sectional match on August 27th, and that should be interesting--their matchbook shows a LOT of hardcover and no-shoot partials, which means that exactly what I'm working on now will be necessary to do well.
....I'm off to the range to try to suck less.
(I'm still going to post about Dot Torture elsewhere. Eventually!)
abbafandr:
Dang, had a nice semi coherent reply and made it disappear somehow ???
I have missed 4 days. 2 were medical ( surgery, yada yada). 2 were other.
June was a lot of WHO practice since minor strong hand surgery limited me.
I truly need to work on accuracy at distance and second shot accuracy. When A class or better shooters ask " do you even see your sights on the second shot" or similar remarks, you kind of figure what needs work :laugh:
I think this is helping but I have long way to go.
JTH:
--- Quote from: abbafandr on July 14, 2016, 02:41:21 PM ---When A class or better shooters ask " do you even see your sights on the second shot" or similar remarks, you kind of figure what needs work
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You double-tap a LOT. :)
Often your first shot is solidly aimed---but you just rip the second one off immediately in a lot of cases, including on targets where *I* certainly would only use a seriously aimed shot. (Which is why you get a lot of Alpha-X targets, where "X" is normally something not-A.)
Making the second one aimed just takes a tiny bit of extra time (seriously, less than 0.2 almost always) and the increase in points will be SIGNIFICANT.
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