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2017 Dryfire Challenge!
JTH:
Just like last year, I've made a 2017 Dryfire Report Card that you are welcome to use to help yourself track your dryfire practice.
More importantly, you can use it to help make yourself a better shooter by practicing in dryfire every day. We aren't talking about trying to have people put on all of their gear and knock out an hour of focused, concentrated dryfire practice every time (though if you can, great!), but instead--every day, work on getting a little better.
Here's an explanation here of what I'm talking about, and a couple of videos explaining Drill Zero and some of its variations: 2017: How are you going to get better this year?
Last year, due to this, I ended up practicing Drill Zero on 174 different days. That was in addition to days in which I did longer dryfire practice, did live fire practice, attended a training class, or shot a competition match. 174 days---which means that due to Drill Zero (a drill that takes less than three minutes and takes no gear other than an empty gun and a safe direction) I practiced an extra five thousand two hundred and twenty perfect trigger pulls (well, as perfect as I could make them) working on getting the sights to stay steady as I got faster and faster on the trigger.
No matter what else you do, if you can manage sight control and trigger control, you'll hit what you need to hit. The rest is important, sure, but without sight control and trigger control, the rest really doesn't matter. And Drill Zero is all about getting better at those two things.
Five thousand extra perfect trigger pulls? Yeah, that WILL make a difference to my ability to shoot well.
I didn't meet my goal last year of practicing every day. But, I still got a lot of good practice in, so it wasn't like it was a waste. This year, my goal is again that every single day I will practice physical pistol skills in some fashion, and I'm going to mark in black days I do Drill Zero, blue the days I do longer dryfire sessions, purple the days I dryfire with guns other than my carry gun or primary competition handgun, red the days I live fire practice, and green the days I test myself either in competitions or in training classes. (Yes, I own a lot of Sharpies. Doesn't everyone?)
Every single day, there is going to be something I can mark on my report, showing that I'm working on getting better. If nothing else, I can ALWAYS do Drill Zero.
Anyone else interested this year? Who else wants to be a better shooter, as opposed to simply being a gun owner? There is nothing wrong with just being a gun owner. Plenty of people who own guns like them for collecting, for their history, etc. There are lots of reasons to own guns, a number of which have nothing to do with actually shooting them. However...if you DO think you are a shooter, what are you doing to get better? At the very least, what are you doing to maintain your current skill level?
Dryfire! :)
tstuart34:
Day 1 done. I will have to print these soon.
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abbafandr:
I'm in. :o I think it helped but am going to have to come with a method of tracking it.
I have shot the last 2 Rockin' Thunder matches. I haven't practiced with my G17 for weeks and my December score dropped quite a bit. The pistol I've been practicing with score stayed roughly the same. My score with the 22LR jumped considerably.
I think I will go back to practicing with the G17. If I get used to the (relatively) crappy trigger pull on that, I don't foresee much difficulty with the Smiths delightful triggers. :P
tstuart34:
Can I do drill zero with a brown or black background? My eyes really struggle to focus on the font sight for some reason. I think my young great eyes are starting to go slowly bad :(. I can focus fine on other backgrounds but the whitish color of my basement throws me off
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JTH:
--- Quote from: tstuart34 on January 02, 2017, 10:06:46 PM ---Can I do drill zero with a brown or black background? My eyes really struggle to focus on the font sight for some reason. I think my young great eyes are starting to go slowly bad :(. I can focus fine on other backgrounds but the whitish color of my basement throws me off
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Sure! For basic Drill Zero, the main point is that you need to be able to see your sights sharply and clearly. Whatever background you want to use it up to you!
....that being said, actually changing your background every once in awhile isn't a bad thing, either. You don't want to make the background visually distracting (at least, not for Drill Zero), but changing it periodically means that you aren't training your brain to only look for one particular picture, but instead training it to look for a certain sight alignment within the picture.
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