Dry firing can help. But like drills in any sport it only helps if you are practicing the right things. Dry firing does no good if your issue is too much side tension from your trigger finger so the sights jump when the trigger breaks.
How you pull the trigger matters. You don't really want to pull it. Instead you want to build pressure against it and let it move when and how it wants. And you don't stop at the BANG!. You have to focus on pulling fully back to the travel stop and hold it there for a noticeable amount of time. If you're clutching at the trigger like it's a mouse button in some shooting game you'll never get good.
It's amazing how the little things matter as well. A long time bullseye shooter sharpened me up one day by suggesting I hold the unloaded gun down low, close my eyes and raise it up in a comfortable manner. I opened my eyes and the gun was a good 15 degrees off the target. I shuffled my feet around until I was raising the gun up with my eyes closed and then opening them to see the gun in line with the target. The groups I shot that way were about 15 to 20% smaller than what I'd done that night up to then.
So if you're dry fire practicing work at a nice smooth pressure build instead of actually trying to conciously move the trigger. The break should surprise you when it does occur. And work on your positioning and try that neutral posture.
Finally I feel it helps to have a focal point on the wall. I know it's about the front sight. But it's also about putting the front sight on the target and holding it there while working the trigger and gauging where the pressure build occurs and watching for the sight picture jumping a little sideways at the break. That indicates side tension from the trigger finger which you want to correct with less or more trigger finger on the trigger.
How you pull the trigger matters. You don't really want to pull it. Instead you want to build pressure against it and let it move when and how it wants. And you don't stop at the BANG!. You have to focus on pulling fully back to the travel stop and hold it there for a noticeable amount of time. If you're clutching at the trigger like it's a mouse button in some shooting game you'll never get good.
It's amazing how the little things matter as well. A long time bullseye shooter sharpened me up one day by suggesting I hold the unloaded gun down low, close my eyes and raise it up in a comfortable manner. I opened my eyes and the gun was a good 15 degrees off the target. I shuffled my feet around until I was raising the gun up with my eyes closed and then opening them to see the gun in line with the target. The groups I shot that way were about 15 to 20% smaller than what I'd done that night up to then.
So if you're dry fire practicing work at a nice smooth pressure build instead of actually trying to conciously move the trigger. The break should surprise you when it does occur. And work on your positioning and try that neutral posture.
Finally I feel it helps to have a focal point on the wall. I know it's about the front sight. But it's also about putting the front sight on the target and holding it there while working the trigger and gauging where the pressure build occurs and watching for the sight picture jumping a little sideways at the break. That indicates side tension from the trigger finger which you want to correct with less or more trigger finger on the trigger.
