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Keeping the "EDGE"


Ron Ankeny

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This might seem like a stoopid question, but here goes. With winter approaching (actually it hit hard today) what do you folks do to keep your shooting skills sharp through the "off" season?

It seems like I work hard all summer, then I get rusty through the winter and have to start all over again in the spring. I know the answer is dry firing, but is that alone enough?

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Ron,

1.  move South!

2. if that's not practical (it wasn't for me for a long time):

Live-fire training is very time consuming. I have only n hours a week where I can do anything helping my shooting. Those things are

i) dry fire

ii) reload ammo

iii) some sort of fitness activity

iv) live fire

v) do nothing

In the off-season I used to replace time consuming live-fire (iv and ii) with much less time consuming air pistol shooting inside, and pick up i) and v). Another alternative is not touch a gun until spring. Freaky as it sounds, it helps, too!

--Detlef

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Last winter I don't think I spent anytime dry firing.  However, I did spent a lot of time working on movement.  When spring came I was slower with the gun but faster moving.  Once I got the rust off the shooting I could see quite the improvement.  All the movement drills can be done inside and year around but its something to get you through the winter.  And I agree with Detlet, Sometime it good to take a rest.

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Hey Ron,  I actually look forward to winter shooting!  It's a solitary time with no match pressure.  I really think I make most of my advances in the off season.  There seems to be more "freedom to experiment" with no matches on the horizon.   I also shoot the long guns much more often in winter.   Maybe we can get together during January thaw?    

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Suggestions, FWTW:

1)save up and get the set of Burner tapes. Spend all

winter watching and practicing;

2)buy an airsoft pistol that matches your competition gun.

use a scaled down indoor range at home and practice

(recently a Japanese team did quite well at the Steel

Challenge. When asked how'd they do that... airsoft.)

3)take up another kind of shooting that at least keeps the

sight picture and trigger control going. I've started

shooting the 50BMG rifle - talk about flinch control -

the recoil, coming back to the 38 Super, seems SO

small. (The gun too, for that matter. Call it weight

training...)

4)go through every line in Brian's book and commit it to

inward digestion

5)all of the above

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Well being from SoDak I can relate...

1.  live fire with your main pistol

2.  live fire with a .22lr

3.  dry fire with your main pistol

4.  shooting bb guns or air-soft, co2 pistols

5.  weight training/exercise ( I choose boxing),and do dry fire drills without your pistol between sets..

Hand warmers help in the cold weather shooting sessions.

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