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Trigger pull is certainly one of the things you can work on in dry fire, but I wouldn't say dry fire is all about trigger control. There's a lot of stuff you can work on by pulling a dead trigger, or by not pulling the trigger at all.Dry fire is all about trigger pull practice
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zip lock sandwich bags dont care which way they go in. i quit using ammo boxes years ago, as i find them more of a hassle then they are worth.
Same. I pack my 9mm in bags of 100 by weight.
I only use ammo boxes when I travel.
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3.5 seems hot. What's your PF with that?
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Developed the ability to diagnose my own problems and then design drills to work on them.
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Could be worse... 84.99%.
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Hey, don't knock it. You're the top Production A in the country!
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Made it! I should be at 91-92% this month.
I jinxed myself! I was off by a couple percent on my last classifier!
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TUESDAY 5/10/16
Dry Fire
Shooting on the move
- 20 mins
- 6 yards with no-shoots (1/2 covered A zones, headboxes only)
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MONDAY 5/9/16
Dry Fire
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Trigger control at speed
- 10 minutes, freestyle/SHO/WHO
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Moving reloads
- 20 mins
- Started at 75bpm (2.4s), worked up to 171bpm (1.05s)
- The hardest moving reload right now is turning 180deg towards my strong side.
- In general, my moving reloads are looking better. I'm holding the gun higher and moving more explosively when reloading. Since this is a huge weakness in my game right now, especially since I shoot Production, I'll keep working on these every dry fire session for the next couple of months. I want 1 second reloads to become my new normal.
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Trigger control at speed
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SUNDAY 5/8/2016
No matches or dry fire this weekend. Just family time and catching up on sleep. It was glorious. -
Steve Anderson's "leaving only acceptable shots" dry fire drill. It's a drill for working on calling shots and immediately making up misses for extended periods of time (i.e. USPSA stage times).
He talks about it on his podcast episode dated 6/15/15. That episode probably isn't available for free anymore, but it's definitely worth paying for the subscription to get all his old episodes.
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TUESDAY 5/3/15
Dry Fire-
Trigger control at speed
- 10 mins
- Freestyle, SHO, and WHO
- WHO is looking a lot better lately
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Moving reloads
- 30 mins
- Three count metronome drill
- Started at 75bpm (2.4s) and worked down to 171bpm (1.05s)
- Made a target setup so I can practice 90deg,
180deg, and lateral reloads, in both directions, in sequence - I figured out that I'm not actually holding the gun lower when reloading while moving. I'm holding the gun the same way with respect to my torso, but I'm bending down at the waist when moving, which drops the gun below my line of sight. I tried reloading with the gun higher with respect to my body/same height with respect to the world, and it seemed to work better. I'll keep experimenting.
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Trigger control at speed
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MONDAY 5/2/16
Dry Fire
- 15 mins
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Moving reloads
- After viewing this weekend's match videos, I realized that my moving reload technique is completely different (and shittier) than my static reload technique. My arm and gun trails behind my body as I move forward, and I hold the gun WAY too low. So I'll be working on these for a while.
- Key points to remember as I practice this:
- Pull arm/gun in front of body
- Hold gun high
- Don't angle the gun too much
- Look the bullet tip into my strong hand pinky nail
- GET MOVING SOONER
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Made it! I should be at 91-92% this month.
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FRIDAY 4/29/16
No dry fire last night.
I've been working on movement skills for the last 2-3 weeks, and although I'm happy with how that has progressed, my accuracy has been suffering in matches because I'm consciously thinking about movement instead of shooting.
So, I need to practice movement skills more. A lot more.
Here's a list of drills I can do. My goal is to work on these things for a few minutes every day. The drills aree simple enough where I don't even need to put my rig on or use a timer.
- Entering: come in low and shoot low, don't stand up before shooting
- Exiting to left or right: moving outside leg instead of inside leg
- Keeping the gun up: aiming through vision barriers, finding target and getting sight picture sooner
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Rule of thumb I heard for Production is 5 charlies in 5 seconds.
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WEDNESDAY
Dry Fire
- 45 mins
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Turn and draws
- Did a few reps to get a baseline. Average was around 1.35s
- 5 minutes, accuracy mode, not looking at the timer. Pass = A, Fail = anything else. Goal =100%. Got 74%.
- 5 minutes, speed mode, anything on paper okay. Average = 1.15s, Low = .91s.
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El Presidente
- Did a few reps to get a baseline.
- If figure I need to be able to shoot 125% HHF on this (and all other classifiers) in dry fire in order to hit 100% HHF in live fire.
- Was hitting 120-128% consistently. 4.50-4.85s, 10-12As.
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More Disaster Factor
- Hit 115-120%.
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Observations
- In matches, I've noticed that I have a tough time acquiring the sights on turn and draws, and I think I figured out why. I'm so focused on turning my head and moving my feet that I neglect to get a good grip on the gun, and I'm not fully mounted by the time I push out.
- I will continue to work on turn and draws, paying attention to getting a good grip as soon as possible.
- My reloads are slipping a bit. At 10 yds, I used to be able to hit 1.20s consistently, but I had quite a few at 1.60-1.80s, mostly due to missing the magwell. I will do more reload metronome drills this week, static and moving.
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Bullets back sounds super uncomfortable to do. You need to rotate the wrist all the way to grab the mag, then rotate it back to insert.
I used to do bullets forward, but I've been playing with bullets out for the past four months, and I like it a lot. At least for the front three mags on the belt. I might change the back two mags to bullets forward so I don't need to rotate my wrist as much for those.
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so what's the Secret to shooting classifiers do you take your time and try for A,s or shoot fast and hope for A and C I have a match with 5 stages and there all classifiers
Watch your sights and call your shots. You'll land where you land.
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Jeez, 108.6...
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AAR, USPSA MATCH, 4/23/15
The bad- Drilled a no-shoot right in its stupid no-shoot face on a max trap.
- Had trouble dropping mags with my new extended mag release, which cost me 2 seconds on one stage and a GM score on the classifier. Not sure yet if it's operator error or the mag release itself.
- Lots of extra shots on steel.
The good
- Speed and efficiency are better in some areas. I'm shooting earlier on entries and taking way more targets on the move than I used to before.
- I shot an 90.5% on CM03-04, so now I'm a Production M! It feels pretty good to have gone from unclassified to M in less than a year. I'm feeling more confident about making GM this year.
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WEDNESDAY 4/20/16
Dry Fire
- 30 mins
- More work on shooting 6 and 10 yard partials on the move, with different hard cover patterns
THURSDAY 4/21/2016
Dry Fire
- 15 mins trigger control at speed. 5 minutes each, freestyle, SHO, and WHO. WHO is looking a lot better lately.
- 30 mins position entry, easy and hard:
- I've noticed in my match videos that when I'm running up to a port or position, I come in low, then straighten out my body, and then shoot. Tonight I practiced entering low, staying low, and shooting sooner.
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Observations
- On easy targets, I roll in smoothly and shoot as I'm decelerating. However, on hard targets, where I know I need to be fully planted to get the hits, doing a smooth, gradual entry seems to just add unnecessary time, and I'm better off entering aggressively and getting planted as soon as possible.
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TUESDAY 4/19/16
Dry Fire- 60 mins
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Shooting on the move, partials, 6 and 10 yards, on this array:
- I started off by seeing how much time it would save to shoot this array on the move vs. while static. Static: 5.75-6.00s. On the move: 4.50-4.75s. Pretty significant savings, IF I can maintain the points.
- Then I practiced shooting it in accuracy mode. I blocked off the time display on my screen and only looked at the hits. Definition of success was all As with occasional close Cs, with Ds and misses being okay if they were called and immediately made up. I practiced like this for 10 mins.
- Then I practiced for 10 minutes in speed mode. Definition of a successful run: hits anywhere on brown, or called misses. No mystery mikes allowed. I didn't bother taking make ups in this mode. The initial goal was to get below 3.50s, and I got down to 3.00-3.25s, with occasional runs in the 2.90s. During this drill, my focus was on pushing my transition speed while moving.
- Then I finished up with a few more runs at my natural match pace. Runs in the 4.00-4.50s range.
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Observations
- Shooting while moving from R to L used to be difficult for me, but I'm getting the hang of it. Taking smaller steps than I do when moving L to R helps keep the sights stable.
- I no longer need to consciously time my shots to my steps. Now I just watch my sights and let the sight picture dictate when to fire.
- I think practicing these tight shots on the move is going to help with my entries and exits as well. If I am able to call my shots on a 10 yard partial on the move, I should also be able to enter and exit extremely aggressively on open targets 7 yards and in.
- My new mission is to be able to take 15 yard partials on the move while moving very aggressively.
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It's actually the strong hand thumb dancing in time to the trigger finger somba. The other fingers probably are dancing too, but I can watch the thumb hopping around. Quite distracting actually.I find that pushing with my firing hand and pulling with my support hand helps me lock everything up nice and tight so the muzzle doesn't flip as much and the finger doesn't twitch as much. The other thing is really focusing on a surprise break if the trigger and making sure that you trap the trigger to the rear so that when you take your follow up shots, they are just very small movements to reset the trigger and fire again.
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What grip are you using? Can you post a picture?
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Ben Stoeger's White Wall Fundamentals drill is your answer ...
Details? Just point at a wall, pull, repeat until smooth?
There's a little more to the drill than that.
Start with your finger lightly on the trigger, trigger NOT prepped. Set the timer to random start. On the beep, pull the trigger as soon as you can, before the beep ends (about .3s), without disturbing the sight alignment at all.
The sight alignment does not necessarily have to be perfect, but it shouldn't move at all when the trigger breaks.
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