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2017 Dryfire Challenge!
bkent:
I'm in. :)
It's been quite a while since I've practiced, so I'm starting out with a basic Wall Drill. Did 10 minutes tonight. I'm using a goal tracking app on my phone.
http://pistol-training.com/archives/118
Thanks for posting this!
JTH:
--- Quote from: bkent on January 03, 2017, 09:34:48 PM ---I'm in. :)
It's been quite a while since I've practiced, so I'm starting out with a basic Wall Drill. Did 10 minutes tonight. I'm using a goal tracking app on my phone.
http://pistol-training.com/archives/118
Thanks for posting this!
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The Wall drill is obviously the main basis for Drill Zero---Wall is an excellent drill to isolate the singular skill of trigger control, and it works VERY well for that. The main difference between Drill Zero and the Wall drill is that Zero requires you to also work on changing eye focal length, which is often a big issue for people. They start off by looking at a far-away target, and when they have to bring in their focus to something close like the sights, they either 1) don't do it, or only partially do it, so that they don't really have a front sight focus and then they don't understand why their shots are inaccurate, or 2) they DO manage a front sight focus, but it takes a very, very long time. The muscles in your eyes that regulate focal length, just like any other muscle, need a workout to be fast and efficient. Drill Zero adds that extra component. (That's not all, but that really is the major difference.)
Wall drill is really good---trigger control is SUCH a huge issue for most people, and they don't realize it. And practicing Wall really, really can help.
Excellent!
JTH:
Well, I've managed to practice every day SO far. :)
So far we've got me, tstuart34, abbafandr, and bkent. Anyone else this year?
tstuart34:
--- Quote from: jthhapkido on January 10, 2017, 11:10:05 AM ---Well, I've managed to practice every day SO far. :)
So far we've got me, tstuart34, abbafandr, and bkent. Anyone else this year?
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I've slipped up a couple of days already... I have been hitting shotgun reloads also with this. School started back up for me this week so I'm going to really have to focus on taking the time.
The good news is I am already seeming some improvement. I feel like my eyes are focusing better and that I am snapping the gun harder to my eye focus point much quicker. I need to print off some 6 spot targets so I can work on transitions.
I'm seriously considering a LASR system just so I can do some progress tracking.
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JTH:
--- Quote from: tstuart34 on January 10, 2017, 03:37:58 PM ---I've slipped up a couple of days already... I have been hitting shotgun reloads also with this. School started back up for me this week so I'm going to really have to focus on taking the time.
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Believe me, I understand.
Since I'm shooting PCC at the USPSA Optics Nationals this year, I'm taking some of my dryfire time and working on gun-handling skills for PCC, also. (Hence the "purple" choice for marking my report, because if I'm putting work in, I want my dryfire report to show it, dang it! :) )
Matter of fact, since I'm shooting PCC Optics, Rimfire Rifle Open, Rimfire Pistol Irons, and Production at the upcoming (in April) Great Plains Steel Challenge Championship (where you can shoot up to four different divisions), I'm going to be spending some dryfire transition practice time with some .22s also.
My current plan is that even if my dryfire practice is non-primary-handgun (so, marked in purple), I'm going to ALSO try to at least get in Drill Zero with one of my primary handguns on that same day. I really want to improve my trigger control this year. My speed is okay, my draw is fine, my reloads are...adequate..., my ability to get on the sights and control my sights is fine....but my trigger control continues to be the issue.
Note: when I say "fine" and "okay" that doesn't mean perfect, but it at least means that it is decent for my current expected level of shooting. My trigger control, however, just isn't consistent enough for where I'm supposed to be.
Part of my live-fire practice plan this year includes a lot of Manny Bragg's trigger control drills, which means I'm going to be spending a lot of my time shooting dots. And steel at distance. But....if I get good at that, literally my entire USPSA game will improve significantly.
Not to mention that my self-defense capability will increase significantly in terms of operative handgun skill.
Dryfire to practice it, live-fire to verify it and ingrain it under recoil.
...that's one of my major goals for this year.
Hm. That's an idea for a different post. Yearly goals.....
--- Quote ---The good news is I am already seeming some improvement. I feel like my eyes are focusing better and that I am snapping the gun harder to my eye focus point much quicker. I need to print off some 6 spot targets so I can work on transitions.
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Those 2" dots really help for practicing small transitions, and if you put two of them up several yards apart from each other (and then stand only a couple of feet from the wall) they ALSO really help working wide transitions.
--- Quote ---I'm seriously considering a LASR system just so I can do some progress tracking.
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LASR allows for some pretty cool tracking options.
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