Dryfire drills

[Kane519]

I'm looking for some good dryfire drills to practice for PRS style matches. My current dryfire routine looks something like this:

10 shots prone
10 off-hand
10 kneeling
10 seated
10 low support (chair seat)
10 high support (back of chair)
10 prone

Lots of focus on trigger control and follow through. Most of these are at the eyeball of a yellow minion holding a fart gun (courtesy of McD's). Any suggestions to spice it up?

 

[Ryan_mcle]

I would suggest mixing it up by taking 2-5 shots from each of those positions.
Say start
prone for 2
off hand 2
Low barricade 2
Prone 2
High barricade 2

Also use a shot timer. Set a time of say 2 min and work your way down to faster times.

Last thing is practice with the bags you would use during a match.

Ryan

 

[Crouchy]

The other thing the threw me for a bit of a loop is have targets on the floor and 6' off floor. This will simulate elevation changes which helps in body positioning.

 

[kombayotch]

Contact Bob Raymond and get an IOTA. It will allow you to focus your scope at ~11 feet.

Practice the PRS skills stage with the barricade a lot. It's a tie-breaker stage. If you're tied with someone else (and that happens a LOT at PRS matches - there were 6 people with 122 at one recent match), the person with the highest score on the skills stage wins. If everyone got the same score, then it goes by time.

Practice shooting off the barricades at angles. Targets will not always be in front of the barricade. On some ranges, you can shoot 180 degrees and they will put targets way off to the sides.

Practice shooting weak side. If you're a rightly, shot left side (left shoulder, left eye, left trigger finger). Being able to shoot ambidextrously is one of the things that separates an elite rifleman from an intermediate one.

Practice using the reticle for hold-overs and hold-unders. On some stages you will time out if you try to dial for each distance. Often you will have several targets at a few different distance and you will have to engage each one from several different postions.

 

[arcticrover1]

you can also try practicing dry fires with a coin balanced at the end of your barrel, you should be able to dry fire your gun without dropping the coin

 

[Kane519]

Thanks guys. I'll try those suggestions.
I do plan on getting the IOTA.