Favorite dry fire drills?

Clobbersauras

Clobbersauras

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Just wondering what CGNers are doing for dry fire these days:

My favorites:

Wall drill: (muzzle at eye level an inch away from a blank wall, practicing front sight focus, sight alignment, grip and trigger press).

Fast Wall Drill: not sure what else to call it. I picked this up recently but have been doing it for a week or two and I think it's a very good drill, it's basically just a wall drill, but I reset the pistol and re-establish a grip, sight picture, etc and press the trigger as fast as I can, trying not to move the front sight in the process.

Draw and press trigger (concealed) - 2 second par time. Yes that is slow, but I am trying to getting a consistent grip and focus on my front sight before I try to speed up the par time.

I also practice a lot of mag insertions, as that is the part I seem to bobble the most during a reload.

I try to get in dry fire Mon, Wed, and Friday, even if it's just for a few minutes.

That's it, pretty basic stuff, but I wonder what other CGNers do for dry fire?
 
One of the guys at my club showed me to lay a loonie on top of the slide and practice the double action pull without dropping the coin.
 
Galt said:
One of the guys at my club showed me to lay a loonie on top of the slide and practice the double action pull without dropping the coin.
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The more typical drill is to place an empty brass on the muzzle end of the slide (or better yet the front sight, if it's cut flat enough).

But that the beauty of the simplicity of the wall drill. You are looking for no front sight movement at all.
 
Clobbersauras said:
Just wondering what CGNers are doing for dry fire these days:

My favorites:

Wall drill: (muzzle at eye level an inch away from a blank wall, practicing front sight focus, sight alignment, grip and trigger press).

Fast Wall Drill: not sure what else to call it. I picked this up recently but have been doing it for a week or two and I think it's a very good drill, it's basically just a wall drill, but I reset the pistol and re-establish a grip, sight picture, etc and press the trigger as fast as I can, trying not to move the front sight in the process.

Draw and press trigger (concealed) - 2 second par time. Yes that is slow, but I am trying to getting a consistent grip and focus on my front sight before I try to speed up the par time.

I also practice a lot of mag insertions, as that is the part I seem to bobble the most during a reload.

I try to get in dry fire Mon, Wed, and Friday, even if it's just for a few minutes.

That's it, pretty basic stuff, but I wonder what other CGNers do for dry fire?
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Cool, cant wait to try some of these, What kind of handgun you using?
 
G17.

Also, I can't stress this enough, before you commence dry fire: double, triple, quadruple check that your pistol is unloaded.

Evey time I remove my pistol from the safe, I lock side to the rear, visually verify the chamber is clear, then stick a finger in there to make sure, then rack rack,rack. I do that sequence with every pistol I handle, either off the range or not.

For dry fire I do my "verify safe" sequence then load my snap cap. Then I visually verify that it's a snap cap in the pistol with a press check. I use A-Zoom snap caps. They are easy to identify by their colour.

I'm able to re-set the gun without ejecting the snap cap by using the same method I use to press check. Using this method I am able to visually verify there is a snap cap is in the gun with each re-set of the trigger. Another benefit is that I don't have snap caps flying all over the room dozens of times a session. YMMV.
 
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