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ammo who needs it!
no ammo needed to be the best
enjoy, while I do a lot of dry fire I never even heard of a hold drill.
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My son's high school wrestling coach was on one of the Army's High Power Rifle shooting teams. He told me that one of the training excersises they used was to have another shooter place a nickel on their front sight while in position (usually prone) and dry fire. They had to have one hundred consecutive shots without the nickel falling. If it fell, they started over.
I tried it (using one of my kids) and could never make it past twenty shots, usually much less.
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My son's high school wrestling coach was on one of the Army's High Power Rifle shooting teams. He told me that one of the training excersises they used was to have another shooter place a nickel on their front sight while in position (usually prone) and dry fire. They had to have one hundred consecutive shots without the nickel falling. If it fell, they started over.
I tried it (using one of my kids) and could never make it past twenty shots, usually much less.
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We were trained that way in 1968 w/our service revolvers. Our “homework” was to put the coin on the top strap of the revolver and dry fire as many times as possible w/o knocking the coin off the gun.
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We were trained that way in 1968 w/our service revolvers. Our “homework” was to put the coin on the top strap of the revolver and dry fire as many times as possible w/o knocking the coin off the gun.
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Is this exercise designed to fight flinching?
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In 55 years I've never practiced or enjoyed "dry fire".........Ain't gonna start now. Seems waste of time.
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Originally Posted by Tim Stapp
My son's high school wrestling coach was on one of the Army's High Power Rifle shooting teams. He told me that one of the training excersises they used was to have another shooter place a nickel on their front sight while in position (usually prone) and dry fire. They had to have one hundred consecutive shots without the nickel falling. If it fell, they started over.
I tried it (using one of my kids) and could never make it past twenty shots, usually much less.
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works incredibly well on todays flat topped semi-auto pistols that aren't striker fired, except those with second strike capability. My new striker-fired Taurus G2c in 40 has it.
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When it comes down to it, practice is practice
During the Covid shutdown of 2020 I revived the hobby of shooting pellet guns since the ranges were all closed. With nothing else to do I was lining up the sights and pulling a trigger at least 100 times every day, and these days will step away from the computer while working from home to take a quick break do some shooting to clear my head after someone says something incredibly stupid during a video meeting and is going to create a problem I have to figure out how to fix
Since 2020 I'm still shooting the pellet guns every day now since everything is setup, and can see a difference when I go to the range, the basic mechanics of it are what they are.
Thing about it though is while I am a lot more accurate when I slow things down, and the accuracy when shooting fast with a firearm is better, a pellet gun like dry firing can't duplicate the recoil and what I have to do to control it to be as accurate as I think I can be and get the split times down.
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one of the best shooters I know is a pellet head, IIRC he shoots over 50,000 pellets a year.
trigger control is trigger control and he has it down, I also call this guy the trigger man, he can get very close when guessing the weight of a trigger pull. I have lost more than 1 dollar trying to bet him on who can get closest on this
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Is this exercise designed to fight flinching?
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Helps in flinching, promotes discipline, mindset, trigger control and sight picture. Great exercise.
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I can only assume so & in my case it worked.
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Another pellet shooter here (well..BB's) - good practice
With everything shut down during Covid and with the continuing ammo shortages and price increases, I went to using an inexpensive CO2 BB pistol that we hand on hand for the grandkids and my garage which is about 30 feet end to end.
Nice private quiet sessions on my own property, away from nosy, anti-gun neighbors. I use an old 22LR bullet trap set up on a wooden table.
The grip shape and grip to trigger distance is about the same as my S&W 2.0 Compact 9mm. So yeah...lacking the weight and recoil but at least it is still trigger time and darned if it hasn't helped some now that ranges are open again.
Still fun on a rainy day and keeps me up and going.
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I can only assume so & in my case it worked.
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I flinch bad enough from several hundred thousand rounds of trap that I can pull a BB gun off a target. Had to go to release triggers.
I never look for tack driving accuracy. I like paper plate accuracy. If I can keep them in a 10" paper plate, I am good
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I flinch bad enough from several hundred thousand rounds of trap that I can pull a BB gun off a target. Had to go to release triggers.
I never look for tack driving accuracy. I like paper plate accuracy. If I can keep them in a 10" paper plate, I am good
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that is my first goal with new shooters, I call it the 10-10-10 drill
10 out of ten in a paper plate in 10 seconds at 10 yards. easy for some not so easy for others.
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