"The Shooters Approach To Practice"

[John Thompson]

I vaugely remember reading a review in Front Sight that this book was a dry fring book. Well if that's the case I'm interested. Has anyone read this?

[Jake Di Vita]

I have it. Don't like it much.

[John Thompson]

Any suggestions for a book on dry firing drills?

[John Dunn]

Steve Anderson's. Where have you been?

[TriggerT]

Steve's book is great, but the thing that really got me into getting back into my dryfire practice is the online drills on Matt Burkett's website. If you have a computer in the area you dryfire, the online timer with all of the commands built in is AWSOME! You get a constant loop of "Shooter Ready--Stand By--BEEP--2nd BEEP for par time-- Reholster." The combination of Steve's book with good drills to work on, and the program which gives you oral comands is the best thing I have found yet.

[John Thompson]

Alright well I have been around the block myself so I'm going to expect a lot from Steve's book since it costs 25-. I'm getting that mental game book to although I'm having trouble geting the paypal page to download. Ironic since paypal is by their very own official policy anti-gun.

[Steve Moneypenny]

that book didn't do much for me, andersons book is much easier to follow. set up like we are used to seeing stages, but for dry fire.

[LPatterson]

Sam Conway's "The Shooters Approach To Practice" is a live fire practice book.

How much you get out of it would probably depend on your skill level. I think the 25 & 50 yard drills are interesting because they are so humbling. I took a class of Todd Jarett's that was fun until we went back to 50 yards and discovered that my target would never be able to reproduce again. That was when it was proven that a gun sighted for 10 yards was sort of useless at 50 yards. But even a 45ACP with 230 grain hardball zeroed for 50 yards could hit a plate at 10 yards once you know your gun.

A lot depends on how much time you want to spend reading and how much shooting but then I also have: Matt Burkett's "Practical Shooting Manual"; all 6 of Matt's DVD's; Steve Anderson's "Refinement and Repetition"; Saul Kirsh's "Perfect Practice" and of course Brian's "Beyond Fundmentals".

YMMV but being retired and single doesn't hurt either.

[Steve Anderson]

John,

Your book has shipped, and I hope you aren't disappointed.

If you give it 30 minutes a day, you WILL see results.

SA

btw, I originally put these drills together to make GM, not to write a book.

[dirtypool40]

I have Steve's book, and like the concept. I posted in another thread about how he and I are going about solving the puzzle from different ends, but his approach has merit and I didn't mean to imply anything different.

It's simple; his goal was to make GM, you do that by smoking classifiers. He set about very systematically practicing to burn down classifiers and it has worked. Make sense to me. For stand and shoots it may just be the best training out there.

[John Thompson]

My goal is stay sharp even though I can't do a lot of live fire now.

"It's simple; his goal was to make GM, you do that by smoking classifiers. He set about very systematically practicing to burn down classifiers and it has worked. "

Not to get into thread drift here but I did that to make master class and the resulting problem was I could smoke classifiers but couldn't do near as well in a match.

[Flexmoney]

Steve's dry-fire book has drills which help develop and focus important skills.

A big part of how Steve trains is to identify a weakness, then work on it until it becomes a strength.

[DraGoN1973]

Hi all

I'm italian ,ALex

I am waiting for the steve's book..

Hope to improve my shooting ...All speaks so good of this book that now I am curious to read it.

Have a nice day

Alex

[Jasonub]

welcome to the forum dragon

[DraGoN1973]

Thanx Jasonub

[Steve Anderson]

There are several dills in the book for field courses, and it is very true that if we train exclusively on stand-and-shoots, we can do very poorly in field courses.

Rand R II will expand on this...

SA

[Merlin Orr]

R and R II will expand on this...

SA

R & R II - and when will we see this?

Sounds interesting...

[DraGoN1973]

till now I tried to simulate the stage's difficulties and I worked on my weakness ..example CHange of magazines.

I aim a target to the left side om my bed, with a par of 1.5 s when the first beep sounds, I move to my right side making magazine change's.

And so on..

Have a good Year 2005 !!!!!!!

ALex

[gravedigger]

John,

Your book has shipped, and I hope you aren't disappointed.

If you give it 30 minutes a day, you WILL see results.

SA

btw, I originally put these drills together to make GM, not to write a book.

Steve money order will be in the mail next weak,can't wait to recieve the book.

[John Thompson]

I found the dry firing book to be pretty good. I have noticed varying time differences between my dry firing speed on certain drills as compared to live firing. it seems that on some drills I've allowed a sight picture that isn't good enough for live fire. The time differences range from anywhere between .1 to.5 seconds.

The mental book was good however, I recommend "The Mental Edge" by Kenneth Baum in addition. Baum's book takes the ideas from With Winning in Mind and tells you exactly how to implement them. It has mental exercises and everything.