Who all here dry fires for practice?

[elano]

I've started dry firing for practice the past few months and have improved my accuracy substantionally. I do it with my revolvers and with my semi-autos, sometimes with a snap cap, sometimes without them.

Who else here dry fires regularly for practice? Have you felt that it has improved your shooting ability?

 

[TX1911fan]

I do. Dramatically helps.

 

[Rail Driver]

Every day.

 

[esheato]

I do....not as often as I should, but probably weekly.

 

[Ole Coot]

I have tried to dry fire every day for years. It helps to place a cartridge case on the top of the slide or if a revolver on the flat and squeeze off a shot without dropping it. Next if you have a flat sight as the factory Glock balance a dime across it, then dry fire. Triple check the handgun is unloaded and treat it as loaded when you point. You will improve your grip, sight picture and trigger control. Because recoil is relative to the person you get everything except the bang.

 

[ny32182]

I do, as often as possible when I have the time. Draws, reloads, and the first trigger pull after each. It is very beneficial.

 

[mrbro]

I do and it does.

 

[jon86]

I practice dry firing with my CCW maybe twice a week.
I do feel that it has improved my shooting ability. Getting very accustomed to that sight picture is priceless. When you get to the range, you have the correct sight picture ingrained in your head.

 

[jdub3]

I do. It has helped my shooting a lot and it's free.

 

[kis2]

I credit dry firing for helping me get over a flinch I developed at a young age.

It helps alot!

 

[Rollis R. Karvellis]

I, do, but judgeing buy my shooting today, not enough.

 

[Deanimator]

Probably the only cost effective way to learn DA revolver.

 

[Manco]

I do, and it helps me maintain top proficiency no matter how many times I've fired a gun--the upper range of everybody's level of skill is perishable, and obviously there is no time to practice during an actual emergency. When just starting out, I think that dry fire is extremely helpful for developing a good feel for how you're supposed to do things (i.e. "muscle memory" and coordination) without recoil and blast interfering all the time--the result is that you learn faster with more positive results to encourage you along the way.

 

[Hk Dan]

Probably 80% of my practice is dry fire. I do draws, reloads, target tranisitions, and some movement drills in dry fire. Invaluable! Matter of fact, there are books written on dryfire practice. Ben Stoeger has written one, Saul Kirsch has written TWO, and if you have an interest I'd pick 'em up!

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I, do, but judgeing buy my shooting today, not enough.

I'm with you.
My only auto is a Sigma, which as you all know, has a very heavy trigger. I dry fire for two reasons. One, for the practice and two to smooth the thing out some.

 

[Dreamcast270mhz]

everything except my .22 rifle

 

[Red Cent]

About every day. Depending on what competition is coming up, I will do more on Thursday and Friday.

 

[ForumSurfer]

It helps quite a bit. I do it often, along with drawing.

 

[tangomike706]

I do, and when available , I like using a laser (CT Grips) it's great for diagnosing trigger slap , jerks and such .

 

[gunsablazin]

Dry fire is great practice. If you have a good foundation in the basics of shooting, you can learn about as much dry firing as you can at the range.

 

[onfloat]

Spent many hours in the Marine Corps in a group circle aiming at a white barrel with small black targets painted on them going click with my M-16. It's still part of their Marksmanship training to dry fire the course of fire for a few hours prior to using live ammunition.

 

[SpentCasing]

i try to practice every day on the DA pull of my Beretta 92FS and 3rd gen S&W.

 

[HorseSoldier]

For what it's good for, it's an excellent type of practice. Even if you had unlimited, free access to ammo, there's still utility in working drills dry (not just dry firing). Factor in the fact that bullets cost money, and anyone who is serious about the use of arms has to do some practice dry.

 

[timothy75]

It absolutey helps. And the more guns you own the more you ought to do it. You familiarize yourself with a hundred little things besides site picture and trigger pull without realizing it with every gun. One area i dont think its stressed enough is with hunting guns. High power rifle and revolver shooters can benefit most from dry fire imho.

 

[bannockburn]

I practice dry firing just about every day. Helps with proper sight alignment, trigger control, and maintaining my correct grip and shooting stance.