Who all here dry fires for practice?

[Creature]

Deanimator wrote:

Probably the only cost effective way to learn DA revolver.

I'll second that notion!!

 

[CZ-75BD]

Forgive me my ignorance but how you dry fire and will it damage firing pins in CZ75 and 45 EAA Witness?

 

[Searcher4851]

I dry fire daily, and it has helped with my shooting.

 

[Owen Sparks]

Dry firing is not "playing with guns" it is a serious form of training.

 

[mfcmb]

95% of my handgun practice is dry firing with a LaserLyte LT-Pro, muzzle-inserted laser that blinks when the striker releases. I practice mostly point shooting, with various angles, distances, movements, draws, etc. and the laser blink tells me where I was actually aiming at the time I pull the trigger.

FYI:

o I'm on my 3rd LT-Pro, the latter two replaced free, and I think they've finally got the bugs out.

o I'm on the third striker in my Kahr CW9 -- The first two each broke after many thousands of dry-fire clicks.

 

[Claude Clay]

odd man out here--started 'real' guns at 12, 45 colt cattleman and a 30-30. re-loaded ( remember the Lee's with the hammer?) and practiced till i found what worked. short time later some adults caught me in there field and told my dad. what they told him was that i was a natural point shooter and to get me some more guns. 60 now and i have more guns and still re-load. except for checking out a gun to buy, cleaning or teaching, i do not play with them when they are unloaded.

Dry firing is not "playing with guns" it is a serious form of training.

Owen, my bad. more precisely i should have said:

...i do not handle them...

though i would not go 100% with 'serious' i would certainly agree that it is 'useful' for many under different conditions to varying degrees.

 

[9mmepiphany]

though i would not go 100% with 'serious'

I would differ on that depending on how you define serious. Every top shooter on the US Team that is going to Greece for the World IPSC Championship dryfires regularly as do the top shooters in IDPA and Bullseye/Olympic disciplines

Top flight Olympic rimfire pistols even have the ability to be dryfired built-in, without the use of a snap cap

 

[NMGonzo]

I do.

My GF is the living testimony of shooting once a year and hitting what she is looking at, usually a 1/4 inch sized stickies on command.

She only dry fires once in a while.

 

[Big_John1961]

I do all the time. It's the best way I've found to become familiar with a new handgun.