Sam1911
Moderator Emeritus
Odd. That's exactly why you do it. To practice the correct motion and concentration of focus without the distraction of recoil and muzzle blast. So that when you do hit the live-fire range you've established and/or reenforced the correct process in your hands and your mind.YOU WILL NOT cure "flinch" and "trigger-jerk" snapping away at home.....
Of course it's not a substitue for live-fire. I don't think anyone said it is. Each shooter will need to learn to work with and ride the action of the gun as it recoils and cycles. For that you will need to do live-fire practice.
But you said dry-firing is "a waste of time," which means it has no place in a training regimen. And that's dead wrong.
When we speak of competition shooters, bulls-eye is far less represented in that set than IDPA and USPSA types these days. And those "go-fast" guys are practicing a purified version of the same thing you say you're teaching. Fastest hits as accurately as they can be delivered at ranges from contact distance to 30 yds, mostly using service pistols that can be carried for personal protection. (And a few race guns, of course.) Does your "CC or CQB" training somehow cover some other set of scenarios to which those skills don't apply?
Don't let's be too insulting or pedantic. I just counted up empty primer boxes while cleaning out my reloading room. I threw out 5,900 rds. worth from this year's reloading. Now that's not what I'd consider a "LOT" of shooting, but that's just for the one gun... So, while I don't shoot as much as a lot of the posters here, I do hit the range every now and again. I'm vaguely familliar with "noise & recoil."What this tells me is that many posters are not firing regularly, or not at all;
There's a lot of things that hinder inexperienced shooters from shooting at their best. Noise and recoil are significant, to the newest of newbies, at least, but I'd say the real "bane" of most shooters are poor grip, stance, and trigger control.not fully realizing that "noise & recoil" are the bane for most shooters
And those happen to be things that you can demonstrably improve through repetitious dry-fire practice.
-Sam