Before conducting any dry fire drills, check with your weapons manufacturer first to see if they recommend dry fires. Ensure that you have safely cleared your weapon prior to any dry fire drills. All ammunition should be stored separate from the location of where you are practicing. Lastly ensure that you are pointing your weapon in a safe direction. Away from anyone or anything, preferably outside, ensure that you will not have anyone or anything walking in front of your sights.
You can practice any position that you feel you need to work on. You can work on your draw and presentation. Maybe you saw something really cool on YouTube and you don't know how to do it correctly. No matter what it is, conducting dry fire drills allows you to really focus on the position for your body to adapt it naturally.
Dry fire training can be summed up in one expression: Practice makes perfect. It really is a sound expression. The professionals make everything they do, look so smooth and flawless because they have spent countless hours honing their craft. Literal days spent dry and live fire training. So, your welcome for giving you a pro tip, because some people have to pay to receive training like this. Who doesn't like free shit?
Talking about free shit, did we mention that you do not have to purchase ammo to dry fire? Yes we did. Lets do some math: I am going to the range with 50 rounds of 9mm ball, to work on my draw and engagements. The next hour is spent with multiple hits and misses, and I just cant seem to nail it down. I have spent 62 cents a minute, with minimal feed back for a total of $37.50. Now I can go back and spend 2-3 hours working out the kinks in my form. Now if I have purchased more ammo to cover the same amount of time I would be out $75-$113.
There are a few things that you can pick up to enhance your training, and you should. You can DIY most of it. You should invest in targets that you can put up on a wall. This gives you something to aim at so you are not just whipping your weapon all over.
The next item you should invest in is a laser bore light. These are inexpensive and provide you immediate feedback as to where you are aiming every time. They are designed to look just like the caliber round that your weapon shoots. When they are loaded into the chamber and the bolt is closed, it shoots a laser that follows a strait line of bore.
Another item to add to your tool kit are Snap Caps. Snap Caps are a bullet mold, made in different calibers, that fit into that magazines of your weapon and the chamber. This allows you to practice malfunctions and magazine changes. We personally use them when we are training youngsters or someone who has never fired a weapon and are terrified.
Muscle memory was discussed briefly but we are going to give it a little more attention. The benefit here is that when it comes time to do work, your mind is free to think about what is happening around you, while your body is already reacting to the training. This is one of the reasons that our soldiers, law enforcement and security personnel are exceptionally good at what they do. They train. They dry fire, a lot. So when the time comes out on patrol, when the dust is kicking around, you have bullets flying around your head and its shear chaos out there, your training will move your body so you can think about where the next cover is or if you are needing to change magazines.
Our marksmanship programs are designed with practical application in mind. What does that mean? Shooting fundamentals expand much further than the range. The biggest applications are hunting, home defense, discipline, attention to detail and confidence.
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