LASR APP and dry fire practice with a carbine, rifle or shotgun...

[JackNeat]

I am wondering if anyone has come up with any practice routines you have for dry fire practice at home, specifically using some laser Ammo and a rifle or shotgun and an application like LASR. I am using the LASRX version which runs in a modern web browser mobile or computer.

I recently completed OFT‘s Defensive Shotgun class and I am using my laser ammo with LASR to practice some of the things we went over that day. It’s a bit hard inside so I just purchased a camo net so I can be a bit less conspicuous in my back yard while running some of the drills that involved a lot of movement. People walk a lot in our neighborhood and I am sure someone would call the po about a weirdo with a shotgun in a backyard...lol.

The builtin drills and challenges for LASR are generally pistol focused drills so coming up with some ideas more appropriate to rifles and shotguns is pretty much on the user. The application allows for setting up your own parameters and saving them.

 

[fnfalguy]

I have used LASR for some pistol training as well as software called shootoff. Below is video for a real basic setup for dry fire practice for shootoff using a sirt pistol. I have found myself to be using either the MantisX or shootoff more when I’m dry firing.

 

[JackNeat]

I didn’t know about the Shoot Off app. Thanks, I will check that one out.

 

[fnfalguy]

i’ll elaborate a bit more. The version of LASR i have is a few years old and I’m not sure if they have made improvements. At the time, I found that shootoff did more and could be set up with multiple webcams. This allowed me to use one to detect the laser dot and the other to capture what I was doing so I could review and assess areas of improvement.

I used a laser insert for playing around with a rifle, but for me, having to reset the trigger each time was a bit distracting. That’s how I ended up with going the route of a SIRt pistol or sticking with using the laser insert in something like a DA only pistol. I do believe that SIRT makes an insert for long guns but I haven’t looked into that.

shootoff definitely has more of a learning curve, but robust public support and it is a bunch of fun when you use a projector to add some entertainment to your practice. The set up in the video is an easy one I can take with me when traveling so I can dry fire practice whereever.