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2017 Dryfire Challenge!

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JTH:
So how it this going so far?  We are a month in now---how's the practice?

I have actually managed to do SOMETHING useful every single day.  Some days I did a variant on Drill Zero in the morning before work, then another drill or two after I came home in the evening.


One of the things I'm really trying to work on is grip and trigger finger strength---not building it (I'm working on that elsewhere), but actually USING it while shooting instead of letting my hands relax.  In my dryfire, in one variant I'm not counting the rep unless I'm really crushing the gun with both hands.  And in one of the other variants I'm doing, I'm using a Ruger P95 in double-action mode the entire time, with a lot of trigger pulls in a short amount of time, freestyle, SHO, and WHO.

It's helping me 1) realize how much I can really grip the gun without it making my hands shake, and 2) making me get the trigger to come straight backwards even through a really long and weighty trigger pull.    I originally thought about using one of my double-action revolvers, but I want the grip to at least mostly resemble my normal guns, and revolver grips are just....weird.  For me.

Not a revolver guy.  :)

The P95's trigger is actually pretty smooth---but it is long and heavy.  If I can keep the sights in solid alignment through THAT, then a shorter, lighter trigger will be less of an issue.  And it really makes me grip the gun solidly.  Trying to get to the point where a solid, extremely strong grip is the unconscious standard, as opposed to my (current) normal grip, and then having to think about tightening it up.

Looking at it, I was amused to see that I shot in 6 different competitions in January.  That's....considerably more than normal.  It is pretty neat, actually, how many shooting opportunities we now have in the Lincoln/Omaha area what with some of the new indoor ranges starting to hold matches also...

(Only two days of live fire, though.  Need to get some more of those this coming month.)

I'm trying to work more on getting at least one variant of Drill Zero every day, even if I'm doing something else with the gun (like live fire, or a competition).  Want to just be in the habit of drill zero, every day.

How's it going for you guys?  Getting any good practice?

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