I talked yesterday about the importance of dry fire practice, and how I needed to honestly evaluate whether or not my live fire practice was actually productive or if I was just performing ballistic masturbation and then telling myself I was cool for shooting a high round count.
That’s not to say that all the shooting I was doing wasn’t helping me improve my performance, but as I mentioned in yesterday’s post, a lot of the stuff I was doing with live fire like draw drills and reloads I can work on just as effectively, if not more so in dry fire. The stuff I should be burning rounds on are things like movement drills and transitions, not standing still in a single lane hosing 300 rounds at a target over and over again. So with that in mind, I’m going to once again start a serious dry fire regimen.
My issue with dry fire has always been that I have the attention span of a small rodent. A very small rodent. So when I do dry fire, I need to keep focused on the goal, and pick several specific drills to work on. To that end, I’m going to try and do focused dry fire at least twice a week. If I can develop any sort of actual patience, I’d like to be able to hit the first 14 drills in Steve Anderson’s dry fire book each practice session. The difference is that unlike in the book, I’ll be doing them from concealment, because I’m prepping for IDPA Nationals.
Hopefully, I’ll actually be able to stick with this dry fire regimen. If I can, I know it’ll definitely help my shooting, and bring up my comfort level with the revolver as I prepare for IDPA Nationals.
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