At home firearm practice drills

[paradox]

If you are going to use a real gun, make double damn sure it is unloaded!

Any firearm can be used, but I like using pistols with a DA trigger as it makes adding dryfire practice simple. Hold the firearm as if you are aiming to shoot. Focus all your visual attention to the front sight, then while keeping the sight picture as rock-steady as possible, step through the eight-directions exercise. If you are dryfiring (with an unloaded gun!

[rivviepop]

Do you have a little digicam that can take a movie? (my sub$200 cheapies do) I think it would help a lot if we could see you do this, I've never done tai-chi to understand how the movements look.

[-hanko]

Put on your tactical vest & do it out in your yard.

-hanko

[paradox]

Do you have a little digicam that can take a movie? (my sub$200 cheapies do) I think it would help a lot if we could see you do this, I've never done tai-chi to understand how the movements look.

I could probably record something this week, but I'd need someone with a good internet connection who could upload to youtube or something from a DVD/mpeg/minidv sent snail-mail. Much of the foothills have early 90s internet connections...

[redneckshootist]

I do something similer but I will include draws from the holster and do it infront of the mirror with a lazer boresighter in the chamber to help with aimimg

[Rck'n'ROll]

I do all my training at home in my boxers, in front of the mirror!!

[Patriot]

Exercise as in calisthenics or as in drill

I'd like to see a video as well. From the description I can't see it being of much use drill-wise except perhaps in familiarizing oneself with the heft and handling of a firearm.

EDIT: Nevermind. I re-read the OP more closely. The "high cost of ammo" threw me for a bit. Muscle memory works both ways - one should ensure they're not developing bad habits during [non]firing drills, which might be hard without results-oriented (bullets, bbs, laser) feedback.

[Black Majik]

I practice draws and dryfiring at targets on my walls. Doing it in front of the mirror ain't such a great idea since 1) you don't have a target to aim at 2) Most people would get caught up on how good they look while drawing their gun rather than pay attention to the excercise they're performing.

With multiple targets on the walls spread out across your room, using a laser mounted handgun practice acquiring sight pictures and target acquisition. Since laser dots are really sensitive to movement, it'll show you roughness/smoothness while moving from one target to the next. Also practice walking back/forth and side to side while transitioning targets.

[Rck'n'ROll]

Seriously I practice trigger pull from the standing, sitting and prone positions with right and left hands, with my rifle and pistols at home. I sweep and clear my house sometimes just so I keep up with my skills. I do not have the time anymore to go to the range as much as I like.

By the way at all times when I am pulling the trigger on my weapons I have in dummy rounds and I make sure there is no real brass in the chamber every time I load my weapon. I then empty my weapon and recheck my rounds visually(just to make sure once again that all my rounds are dummy rounds, all of my dummy rounds are red in color) then reload my weapon again so no accidents happen!!

When I was in boot camp at the firing range at Camp Penilton, We were practicing our trigger pull, sight alignment and sight picture on barrels with dummy rounds. When a round went off two platoons over from where I was standing. Everybody just kinda looked around and was like oh ****, the PMI looked over and saw that nobody was hurt and kept on going with his period of instruction. I later found out through the Recruit Grapevine that it was so and so from 3rd platoon Charlie company who did not notice he had a live round in the chamber. He got disciplined by being kicked out of the military. I don't understand how this recruit could confuse a live round with a dummy round!! The dummy round is krimpt on four sides and has no color to it and the live round is not krimpt with green paint on the bullet end. He could have killed a Recruit, or a Drill Instructor. Now that I think about it, he might have loaded his weapon with that spare round he got from the range and tried to take out one of his DI's. Hmmmm SCARRY!!

[paradox]

Exercise as in calisthenics or as in drill

I'd like to see a video as well. From the description I can't see it being of much use drill-wise except perhaps in familiarizing oneself with the heft and handling of a firearm.

EDIT: Nevermind. I re-read the OP more closely. The "high cost of ammo" threw me for a bit. Muscle memory works both ways - one should ensure they're not developing bad habits during [non]firing drills, which might be hard without results-oriented (bullets, bbs, laser) feedback.

[tonb]

Methinks somebody just watched "Equlibrium"

j/k Interesting idea.

[Bishop]

Finally, some gun katas!

[rivviepop]

Finally, some gun katas!

...minor nitpick, it's kata - Japanese doesn't pluralize like English.

[Bishop]

...minor nitpick, it's kata - Japanese doesn't pluralize like English.

And yet we verb-alize

[rivviepop]

And yet we verb-alize

haha oh man, I think it's fantastic that we have unconsciously decided that anything can be a verb and when you verbalize something everyone knows what you mean. it must confuse the hell out of non native speakers...