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Eli
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An interesting drill that I came up with.
Eli
Posts: 3,074 Senior Member
I've come up with a drill that I think is pretty neat.
I don't have a shot timer (other than the one on my phone), nor do I have very many chances to get to the range, as a result I do quite a lot of dry fire practice in my house. This is great practice, but lacks any sort of reaction from the target, unless of course, you're trying it with the mailman/ups/fedex guy.......they usually like to play the "moving target" game.
On a slightly separate note, I have a few thousand pictures on my computer, a lot that I've taken, but also plenty from the web. Probably 70% of the photos on my computer are (in some form or another) of a person with a gun.
Add 2 and 3 together and (for some damn reason ) you get 9.....but more importantly, you get an interactive dry fire target.
Turn you screen saver on "pictures", set the speed to "fast" (on my computer it changes the pic about every 3.5 seconds), and get to dry firing.
Start with you carry gun in a holster (UNLOADED....don't shoot your friggin monitor), and whenever it swaps to a pic of a person with a gun.....or a kitty....draw and engage the target. If you are running a DAO this is a bit more consistent, but if not, you know how fast you recover from recoil. Just practice and see how many rounds you could have put on target before the picture changes.
This becomes even more relevant when the pic contains more than one person with a gun, or some folks with guns and some without.
So guys and gals.......what're your thoughts on this little drill?
I don't have a shot timer (other than the one on my phone), nor do I have very many chances to get to the range, as a result I do quite a lot of dry fire practice in my house. This is great practice, but lacks any sort of reaction from the target, unless of course, you're trying it with the mailman/ups/fedex guy.......they usually like to play the "moving target" game.
On a slightly separate note, I have a few thousand pictures on my computer, a lot that I've taken, but also plenty from the web. Probably 70% of the photos on my computer are (in some form or another) of a person with a gun.
Add 2 and 3 together and (for some damn reason ) you get 9.....but more importantly, you get an interactive dry fire target.
Turn you screen saver on "pictures", set the speed to "fast" (on my computer it changes the pic about every 3.5 seconds), and get to dry firing.
Start with you carry gun in a holster (UNLOADED....don't shoot your friggin monitor), and whenever it swaps to a pic of a person with a gun.....or a kitty....draw and engage the target. If you are running a DAO this is a bit more consistent, but if not, you know how fast you recover from recoil. Just practice and see how many rounds you could have put on target before the picture changes.
This becomes even more relevant when the pic contains more than one person with a gun, or some folks with guns and some without.
So guys and gals.......what're your thoughts on this little drill?
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I've got a spare monitor somewhere........I'm putting a round into that ugly bastige! :roll2:
OH SNAP!!!!!
Al
Damn you a short feller.
I understand that some folks may be leery about it, but that's why you do a THOROUGH check. Don't have ammo anywhere near you, especially not in loaded mags, lock the slide to the rear, do a visual and physical check of the chamber, and then you're good to go.
And I think that's a rule everybody should follow.....most of the time. However, there isn't a single thing in my house that I actually want to shoot, so while doing dry fire practice, it sorta leaves me in a quandary.
Remember, (no matter what anyone says) an unloaded gun has NEVER in the history of EVER, fired a round into anything.
Now who's fault was that? :tooth: