Dry fire practice

[9mmepiphany]

Why do you have to practice reholstering?

Practicing Reholstering improves your ability to draw consistently.

The Draw stroke/Presentation is often taught in reverse...from being On Target, back into the holster.

Reholstering better ingrains the correct movements...just as recalling a sequence of events is more accurate when recalled in reverse

[Mossy Man]

I remember in my class the instructor spent a lot of time on reholstering. Apparently thats where people end up shooting themselves a lot.

[Mossy Man]

You don't need to practice reholstering separately from the entire shooting sequence of draw, shoot, reholster. I've taken weeks of firearms training, including with 2 GM's, and we didn't sit there and do 100 reholsters.

Who said that people should?

[Khromo]

I used to provide remedial training for a couple of federal law enforcement agencies for people who couldn't qualify with their firearms. Most of these people were still in their probationary periods, and they were going to lose their jobs if they couldn't get up to speed. It was very expensive for the agencies, as they already had very big investments in the probationers' training.

Dry firing was a very big element of the training process. The people who embraced it and started doing a half- or an hour a day of drawing and dry firing at a thumb tack stuck in the wall almost all got satisfactory scores within a month or two. A few of them got pretty good. It was remarkable to watch and very gratifying. You could see and measure improvement in between sessions on the range, just from disciplined, purposeful dry firing practice.

The ones who rejected the idea (It was easy to identify them!) got much different results. There wasn't enough access to the live ranges to get enough practice, and identifying and working on their deficiencies was much more difficult with live fire. The ones with flinches, and there were many, actually seemed to get worse with nothing but live fire practice. Several of these people got canned. Didn't bother me too much, as their attitudinal problems made them poorly suited to the job anyway.

[mej16489]

How important is dry firing for you guys?

It's easily 10x more important then live fire.

[perpetual otter]

How important is dry firing for you guys?

Very.

[TomReloaded]

Dry fire is like 22 conversions. Its just not the same.

[Eljay]

Yes, but unlike conversions you can do it any time day or night, for as little or as long as you want, for free. I can't do live fire every day, but I sure can do dry fire every day.

[9mmepiphany]

Dry fire is like 22 conversions. Its just not the same.

You're right, it isn't the same...it's better; because you remove the investment of ego in the target

[Tok36]

Yes, but unlike conversions you can do it any time day or night, for as little or as long as you want, for free. I can't do live fire every day, but I sure can do dry fire every day.

This^^.

[Black Majik]

I dryfire regularly. Along with mastering your mind, it builds the required muscle memory to be consistent from shot to shot.

A simple orange target on the wall has been my main source of dryfire practice. It's gotten many, many thousands of imaginary bullet holes by now.

[rideordie]

I dry fire a lot... I find it helps me with muscle memory and helps me practice using both eyes open. Its also cheaper then going to the range.. Haha

[Oxide]

Dry fire practice has definitely helped me without a doubt. I've even developed a little personal technique which includes aiming at my monitor with targets (Moving, stationary), scaled for distance. This helps me watch for and correct any minor variations between pulls, as I can see the sights shifting much easier when pointing into a monitor (Bright, white background) than a wall.

[trigger945]

Very important, in my perspective.

Helps a lot with trigger discipline. It helped me a lot for sure.

[Voo]

Everyone should incorporate dry fire into their practice routines. All to often people 'aimlessly' fire off rounds without realizing what they're doing. I know it's fun but at some point natural skill wanes and a more directed approach is needed to gain improvement.

Admittedly, I hate dry fire. It's boring but the biggest improvements I've seen were a direct result of 'shooting' an empty gun.