Dryfire is, can, and always will be a useful tool to help develop shooting skill. It's a great time to break a drill or a skill down and work on minutia without blowing $50 on ammo. However, there seem to a lot of misconceptions about dryfire and the ways to do it. So, I figured I'd try to consolidate information and suggestions to help make the best out of dryfire.Dryfire is shooting without ammo, so treat it with the same level of seriousness. Bring the same level of concentration and effort into dryfire as you would livefire. If you want to improve, keep yourself free from distraction, put the phone down for a few minutes and get to work. Don't do any of that dryfire while watching TV or playing video games bullshit, since all you're doing is just watching TV or playing Fortnite while making loud racking and clicking sounds. This means pressing the trigger straight, gripping the piss out of the gun, and calling your shot.You don't need to rack a striker fired gun every time to dryfire, you don't need to cock the hammer every time on an SAO gun, and you don't need to hammer DA shots only with a DA/SA.For strikers: if you want to get that Dryfire Mag thing, go for it, but that's like $100 you could spend on ammo instead. What I like to do is take a little piece of electrical tape or cardboard, fold it up a bit, and stick it in the chamber so it's sticking out the breech a little bit \(like a chamber flag\), keeping the gun out of battery. This will let you press the trigger multiple times and prevent the striker from dropping and killing the trigger. It will be mushy and weird, but that shouldn't make a difference either way.For SAO: Just press the trigger on the first round, let the hammer fall, and the trigger return spring in whatever gun you have should still provide resistance and let you press the trigger multiple times with no problem.For DA/SA: DON'T FUCKING GO BALLS TO THE WALLS DOUBLE ACTION ONLY. This is a really bad idea. Not only is it pointlessly fatiguing, but you will train yourself to press the trigger way harder than you need to and potentially end up moving the gun when breaking the shot in SA, which is bad juju. Best way to dryfire a DA/SA gun is do the first shot double action, and release the trigger a little bit but not all the way out to reset the DA, and press the trigger again to simulate the change to SA. Obviously when your finger comes off the trigger for something like a reload or practicing movement, you're going to shoot DA again, but it's still a better way to do it than hammering DA all the time.Be honest with yourself. This really goes back to the first point of treating dryfire like it's livefire practice. The benefits of dryfire will only be there if you are practicing being honest with yourself. This doesn't mean when the timer goes off, you go balls to the walls full retard and just point the gun at the targets and start wailing on the trigger. Do you do that in live fire? No? Then don't do it in dryfire! If you want to improve, see your front sight, equal height and equal light, press the trigger straight, and make sure the sights are in the place you want to hit as if you were shooting real ammunition. If you just wail on targets without seeing the front sight and dryfire uncontrolled and floppy, you will not help yourself at all.Buy a timer and use par times. Pocket Pro 2s are not terrible expensive and they last a long time. If you don't want to shell out the $104 for a Pocket Pro, phone apps are *okay,* but they are kind of shitty since they are not as precise as a shot timer. However, they're better than nothing. Pick a par time for a drill you are running and make sure it's slower than you actually do it, just so you can get a feel for what it's like to beat the par time. Once you've done that a few times, lower the par time closer to your actual run time, and work at it for however long you feel you need to. You won't be beating the timer by 1 second or even .5 seconds in the span of a night, but if you work at it constantly, you'll see great improvement within a week and eventually over the course of a year.Don't stage the trigger and be super slow and deliberate. I've met plenty of people who dryfire like this and they still have a flinch. Why? They're giving themselves enough time to let their wrist or grip break before the trigger does. The most efficient way to shoot is to press the trigger straight back as quickly as possible without moving the gun. Staging the trigger for anything but extremely precise handgun sports like NRA service pistol or bullseye will not help you. Just press the damned trigger straight back as quickly as possible and don't move the gun.Don't buy that stupid laser shit. Not only are these things expensive, but they will teach you to verify hits on your target instead of calling your shot. Get your gun zeroed, be honest with your sights, grip the shit out of the gun, press the trigger straight back without moving the gun. If you do all of that, your shot will land exactly where you want it to, whether or not you're actually using live ammo or not; you should know where your bullets are going to land without having to ever look at the target after firing the shots. Magic!Load your mags with dummy rounds to simulate the weight as if you were live firing. Practicing with empty mags is better than no practice at all, but when you are practicing reloads, you're going to give yourself an unrealistic reload speed since you are snatching something that is practically weightless. Dummy rounds loaded to capacity will help give a far more realistic time on your reloads and you will be more comfortable reloading in live fire or at a match since you won't be all, "Oh shit, this magazine is so heavy!" Besides that reason, dummy round will help preserve the feed lips and prevent warping to some degree.Go to Ben Stoeger Pro Shop and buy this: https://ift.tt/2rOqqJ6. Gorilla Wrapz has dryfire stick\-on vinyl scaled targets as well here: https://ift.tt/2k3dfQZ. I really can't emphasize the utility of Ben's book enough though. It will give you par times to work towards, the reason for doing the drill, and things to focus on for the drill. via /r/CCW https://ift.tt/2IR6Jel
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