Sunday, May 20, 2018

The Importance of Dry Fire

Over at the Alien Gear Holster site, Sam Hoober has been running some very interesting articles on concealed carry.  His most resent, Basic Marksmanship for Concealed Carry is a must read. I must confess that most of my practice has been range practice, and I typically practice double taps and single shot aimed fire. But this has given me a way to practice the "flash site picture" method of combat shooting at home every day.

Go read the article, and the ones before it as well.  Then, if you aren't doing daily drills, start.  They say it takes 3000 rounds to build the neural pathways necessary to have something become instinctive.  So if you do 10 repeats a day, in 300 days you will have it down.  If you do 30 a day, in 100 days.  Well you get the picture.  Doing fewer repetitions more times a day is better than doing 3000 all at once.  Once you have the neural pathways built, it takes just a few repetitions each day to maintain them.

Remember, practice slowly and use perfect form.  slow and smooth is fast and accurate.

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