Dry Firing Practice- Boring!!

[GTN]

I try but get so bored doing 10 minutes.
I watched a video about using a blowback airsoft Glock 19 so it feels the same as my carry gun.
I’d be shoot in my basement.

What’s your thoughts on this?
Anyone do this?
Anyone have a model they can recommend?

 

[GOPerfect]

I do not think that I have done dry fire drills. I am not sure I understand the point of them.

 

[kev74]

I will sometimes do drills using the airsoft guns.

I keep looking at the Dryfire mags. They reset the striker in the plastic guns so you don't need to keep racking the slide.

 

[GOPerfect]

I will sometimes do drills using the airsoft guns.

I keep looking at the Dryfire mags. They reset the striker in the plastic guns so you don't need to keep racking the slide.

Honest question, for more advanced shooters, what is the point of dry fire drills?

 

[kev74]

I do not think that I have done dry fire drills. I am not sure I understand the point of them.

It helps work on trigger manipulation and sight acquisition. Helpful to improve in the shooting games.

 

[Robin]

Get a good quality pellet pistol GT! You can practice in your basement, heck with the right backdrop or trap, you can practice in your living room! Keeps your hand eye coordination in practice, exercises muscle memory, you get to measure the results and the effects translate directly to shooting centerfire.
Robin

 

[Phazer]

 

[Phazer]

Honest question, for more advanced shooters, what is the point of dry fire drills?

Keep fresh on draw stroke and sight acquisition.

 

[RedBreast21]

Yeah airsoft with a friend will get you off the X and moving. Put to bed all the YouTube bullshit of reinvented gun fighting.

Shorts, skins and protective eye wear for a truly eye opening experience and to sort out all the BS tacicool crap. I've challenged many YouTube channels to produce that content but so far no one wants to put their twist on things to a real test.

Don't get me started on the CQB crap. Like bullets don't go cleanly though walls. Yeah stack up outside. The funnel is the least of your worries.

 

[RedBreast21]

Great example of Airsoft as a legitimate training aid.

 

[Cooolone]

Dry fire, a dime on my front sights and a few other exercises @ home improved my shooting by yards! Don't knock it! Be patient with it. Trigger release, reset, grip all improve with dry firing...

Good Luck

 

[Nebowictz]

If you are talking about dryfiring to a single target on a wall, racking and pulling the trigger, rinse and repeat dozens of times….yeah that’s boring.

but put up an array of targets, have a planned execution, movement and work on transitions, reloads, draws, everything except for recoil…then it is much better.

look up drills from Ben Stoeger and Mike Seeklander for dryfire.

 

[dsdmmat]

I have a laser shooting gallery. This target system can be set up to light up the targets in random order to keep you on your toes.

Live fire is the best though sometimes I get bored with that too.

 

[FP1201]

Honest question, for more advanced shooters, what is the point of dry fire drills?

The purpose is creating spatial memory for smoother, more deliberate movements that will appear automatically under duress...Drills for clearing (specific) weapons are most useful, practice drawing, magazine changes, etc. are all most useful...Look at Martial Arts Drills and how they train the body for reflexive actions.
Unless you're doing something stupid or Mall Ninja, then I find nothing negative with dry fire training.

 

[GTN]

Live fire is the best though sometimes I get bored with that too.

Yeah live fire gets boring also. Shooting by yourself (all the weekly shooting friends moved away) you can go through 100 rounds in 20 minutes and not accomplish anything
I’ll look into your laser system

 

[FP1201]

Yeah live fire gets boring also. Shooting by yourself (all the weekly shooting friends moved away) you can go through 100 rounds in 20 minutes and not accomplish anything
I’ll look into your laser system

When the challenge is gone, so is the thrill.
It gets boring when you literally shoot round after round into the same little circle of paper.

 

[alistair]

I'm getting bombarded online about the sale that Strikeman is currently having.

It is crazy expensive for what it is, but how about this blowback laser pistol?

Recoil Enabled 1911 Training Pistol – Green Gas IR – Laser Training Solution

 

[thughes]

I try but get so bored doing 10 minutes.
I watched a video about using a blowback airsoft Glock 19 so it feels the same as my carry gun.
I’d be shoot in my basement.

What’s your thoughts on this?
Anyone do this?
Anyone have a model they can recommend?

I miss the old Tuesday nights......

 

[Saltwater60]

I will sometimes do drills using the airsoft guns.

I keep looking at the Dryfire mags. They reset the striker in the plastic guns so you don't need to keep racking the slide.

I have looked attire mags but they don’t have the ones for my 365 and they are expensive. $100 each, yikes.

 

[MikeyCNY]

I have looked attire mags but they don’t have the ones for my 365 and they are expensive. $100 each, yikes.

Looks like the 365 version is finally available - DryFireMag for Double Stack GAP Glocks | DryFireMag

I have a DryFireMag for my M&P (full size but also fits in Compact though sticks out) - it does not mimic the factory trigger exactly but it can still be good practice.

Their "Smart" packages with lasers looks like it could be useful, if a little expensive. (still cheaper than a separate SIRT pistol)