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2016 Dryfire Challenge!
abbafandr:
--- Quote from: jthhapkido on July 14, 2016, 03:26:22 PM ---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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You were one of the shooters I was referring to, among others :). I definitely know at least one thing to work on :o
abbafandr:
Another month gone by, way too fast. Only missed 2 days this year (yeah). I have had 24 competition days and 14 live fire. Still managing to get at least a little bit of dryfire real regularly.
Probably should look into some more extensive drills, but a little bit of practice is better than none at all.
How's it going?
JTH:
Boy oh boy, did I get behind on this!
Don't have a new scan of my report, but....it DOES have a big, week-long gap at one point. I flat-out took a whole week to not do ANYTHING useful.
It wasn't actually a good idea. While I was feeling burnt out, I wasn't actually burnt out on shooting or dryfiring, I was burnt out due to other things. Taking a week off shooting (and practicing) of all types didn't actually help anything, so that was a week of practice that I missed for no useful purpose.
Recently, I've had to change my practice a bit, since I've been shooting PCC in various places. So, I've been working on my PCC gun-handling skills, and alternating that with working on my pistol gun-handling skills---but instead of mostly using my G34 (competition gun), I've been working my carry gun from concealment.
It isn't that much different, really. :) There's a reason my competition gun is a G34---because my carry gun is a G17. Same frame, same sights, same trigger (glock parts, polished), so once I have my hand on the gun itself, it pretty much feels the same to me.
How is everyone else doing? Still getting the dryfire done? Doing better than I did with my time off?
Anyone new start up dryfire?
wallace11bravo:
Thomas,
Have you considered making an exercise in the LASR Community? Just curious :)
JTH:
--- Quote from: wallace11bravo on November 09, 2016, 03:45:29 AM ---Thomas,
Have you considered making an exercise in the LASR Community? Just curious :)
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Um, it hadn't actually occurred to me. :) Folks are welcome to link to my dryfire videos and posts, though!
I really like the LASR software, and it can help in a number of ways, in my opinion. My posts were more for the folks who (like me) often have a "I'm really tired, I'll get to it later, I really WILL" response to the idea that we should dryfire more, as opposed to the group that already is good with pulling up the LASR software daily. :)
It is certainly true that doing Drill Zero 10 times from a tone using the LASR software, recording the average time (for good hits), practicing Drill Zero for a couple of weeks, then checking it again would be an interesting and useful way to track progress---particularly if you did the same for SHO and WHO, since most people will probably see the largest improvement in time and accuracy in those just because most people are really BAD at those. :/
The LASR software makes it really easy to take all sorts of standard dryfire drills, and turns them into data-gathering situations, which is really helpful to people who want to get better in the most efficient manner they can. (Not to mention, the ability to have the software give you start times, par times, call your shots and reloads, and all the other things means you can make all sorts of good things happen.)
It just hadn't really occurred to me to post about it there. (I'm not exactly sure where it is, actually---I haven't been there in quite awhile.) Most of those folks already have motivation to dryfire!
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