Best Alternative for Practice?

[Hangingrock]

If you want to stay on top of things, you really do need to shoot regularly. At least if you're shooting using "you" and not a bench as a base.

One reason dry firing "the way you shoot" is important. Helps keep your muscle tone and hand/eye up.

I have not fired a handgun from bench rest in decades!

 

[gnappi]

BBs are cheap. Air soft BBs even cheaper. CO2 cartridge can be a pain to find. Pump or PCP are the ways to go.

Shhh... CO2 can be had at bicycle shops, they're used in portable tire inflators

 

[StrawHat]

I stopped shooting competitively almost 30 years ago. I still shoot just not in competition. If I know I will be going to a range for paper shooting, I have found dry firing helps. But disciplined dry firing, no gimmicks, no malfunction drills, just getting to know the trigger of the revolver I will be shooting.

I choose a blank wall with no visible marks, nothing to distract my attention. Using an empty revolver, I align the sights and begin my squeeze. The sights should stay aligned. If the wobble out of alignment I can see that. It takes a couple of cycles but soon the old muscles remember how to squeeze the trigger without disturbing the sights.

Doing this practice improves my scores on paper.

Kevin

 

[AK103K]

Sooo, you think no one is watching?

All this talk about "dry fire" and this just now pops up in my email.....

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Just like when you're talking to the old lady about something and the Amazon ads pop u for that very thing the next time you're on.

you're on?!

 

[CraigC]

The only difference is what you see on paper.

Yeah, that kinda matters.

 

[wbm]

What AK103 says is right on!

Years ago I took advice from a PPC, Pracical Police Competition, shooter. He was one of the best at that time. He told me to put a small round target on a wall and do a one hand hold dry fire on it every day...then switch hands and do it again. At first you see how "wobbly" your hold is...sorta moves in a big figure 8 pattern. After a few weeks you will be amazed how tight that figure 8 has become and how much better you shoot!

 

[AK103K]

Yeah, that kinda matters.

And you see a difference?

When I dry fire, the sights are aligned and the trigger breaks and I call the shot in my head. When I shoot, be it paper, or whatever, the same thing happens, except now, I have proof.

 

[CraigC]

Like I said, I don't agree but you do you.

 

[doubleh]

As an alternative to either is to buy an ELMS (expert laser marksman system) from G--Sight and sit in your recliner and shoot the actors you don't like in TV shows with the gun you want to stay in practice with. You will also need something like a lead pencil to remove it when finished practicing.

 

[Sundance1908]

As an alternative to either is to buy an ELMS (expert laser marksman system) from G--Sight and sit in your recliner and shoot the actors you don't like in TV shows with the gun you want to stay in practice with. You will also need something like a lead pencil to remove it when finished practicing.

I, too, use the G-Sight. I have it for 9mm, which covered the majority of my pistols. I'm now looking at other calibers - .223, .40 S&W, and .45acp. If I cannot get to the range, at least I get feedback of sorts from my shots.

 

[ms6852]

A hundred percent of my range trips I shoot several hundred rounds of 22lr and than I switch to centerfire shooting 20 rounds of what I carry. Same thing with rifles. I go to the range 8 to 10 times per month. When I don't I'll practice in my yard with a 22 cal. pellet or BB rifle.

 

[irishlad]

I bought a Mantis X, works well dry or live fire.

 

[Trashyshoots]

Hows all that "cheap" 22 working out for everybody?

Thankfully I never bought plebian bulk .22s only match .22s that havnt gone up that much in price at my lgs.