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Both. The dryfire shouldnt really hurt. I guess if I could only pick one I would use my practice gun

Like everyone said you fake the second pull to exactly what it would be live. However I had some trouble practicing trigger prep with a dead trigger. It was close but not quite, until I just recently discovered this - it works for 1911 style guns but not sure about others. If your hammer is all the way back, basically touching your beavertail, past the point where it rests in condition zero, then the trigger actually has a slight bump where the wall would normally be. So if im practicing trigger prepping, I will tape my hammer all the way back as far as it goes, and you will feel a slight bump in the exact location your trigger rests. It's slight, but its better than nothing.

I wish I had the space/land to outdoor dryfire. Absolutely I think it would help. I can only run a few yards in my indoor dryfire area

Here is what I focus on when WHO shooting. If I can manage to do all of these during a stage, it goes well. 1. Trigger prep - most important. Slapping the trigger when shooting WHO leads to massive trigger jerking. 2. Lean your body forward to absorb recoil. 3. Your stance, if possible, should be diagonal with weak foot forward, strong foot back. This also helps absorb recoil. 4. My strong hand goes on my left breast/shoulder. Again, more weight up front and better for balance. 5. Be sure to call each shot.

I cut some 1/3 and 1/4 scale from cardboard and drew the lines

Cool tips!

Some good advice here already, but make sure your transition exits are explosive. Especially in the first two positions, your gun is lagging pretty hard in between transitions. Work on more confidence in splits on hard targets as well, so you can speed up the shooting in that second array with all the no shoots for example.

Im gonna copy and paste the stage planning outline that I teach in my class

One mag at the end of each practice session if you want to be good about it, but honestly I do it every once in a while

1.2 in live fire isnt too bad, especially if its during a stage. Dryfire those burkett reloads. But honestly unless youre shooting lo cap there are many other areas to gain time in, instead of the .2 seconds youre losing in the rare occasion youre doing a standing reload. For instance, make sure youre moving while reloading, not reloading and then moving. Or shave off .2 seconds on every single transition, which amounts to 2 seconds on a 20rd stage

Sometimes it depends on the gun and how it fits into your hand too... I could never get my SVs perfectly straight up and down (tbh its something you get used to and as long as the dot returns to zero its fine) but on my MPAs the dot is straight up and down and I can track it better for quicker followup shots. Try playing with your individual finger pressure on your support hand (assuming your dot is going up and to the right, do the opposite if opposite). When I started applying a little more pressure with my left pink and ring fingers, the dot started going straighter. I believe this is because the dot/gun is pulling to the right, so applying more pressure to the left, from the right of the grip, helped straighten it out.

Damn thats scary. I think I saw the video youre talking about. I just rack the round into the air and catch it.

If you're starting out I would say probably don't unless it feels a lot more comfortable to you. Not that it hurts, but I don't think it helps either, just preference.

I turn my dot off in between stages but I also get yelled at by my teammate for it I think my old dot (cmore) maybe didnt have as good a battery life and if i left it on during matches it would die within a few months (around 3 matches a week at the time) but the sigs might last longer. He says he can go a year.

Glad to see you figured it out. Left shots mean some sort of jerking of the gun due to anticipation or tension.

I personally believe that sticking with one platform is optimal. However some people have a lot of experience with multiple platforms and can switch between guns like its nothing. I on the other hand am terrible at it. I think being familiar with multiple platforms is a skill in itself and is something I worked on last year.

Yes. I have cowitness irons as well but if you change your dot battery every year I dont really see a reason to need it.

I like the shot-out target drill mentioned above, but when I'm lazy I'll set the target out to like 20yds, draw onto the target for 2 shots, and then immediately look away. You can't see the bullet holes at 20yd.

I always dry fired to a par timer when I first started to try to chase the extreme par times for fundamentals (draw, turn and draw, surrender draw, reload etc) but nowadays I often dont even practice with the timer. At a certain level when you have the fundamentals down, its all about execution and mental game. You'll never shoot a stage in a set time. You shoot it at whatever pace your sight picture allows you. Youll find your times increase when you start shooting this way.

Ideally you grip with strong hand just enough to where you could hold the gun up with your strong hand only. For your weak hand, increase grip pressure gradually until your sight picture starts to shake, then back off slightly. Thats your optimal grip pressure.

I dont put my finger on the trigger until my gun is at least pointed downrange and im pushing out. I've dq'd before from an early discharge and had to retrain myself that way. Prepping the trigger as youre drawing seems a little on the line, even if others do it.

Imo as long as youre still getting surface area with your left hand, it should be okay whether its mating with your right hand or the gun. As long as theres not a gap of open space between your left hand and whatever it should be touching. Of course in the end it depends on whether it feels comfortable to you as well

If your target is clear and irons were fuzzy when you were shooting irons, then im sure youre target focusing correctly. Pay attention to the target when youre getting a sight picture with the dot. If the target is clear and not at all fuzzy, youre good. You dont want the dot to be fuzzy

The steel nail doesn't scratch the TiN does it?