for those of you that dont dryfire

Shot a match with a guy who was shooting his provisional match after just completing his BB course. The guy was shooting lights out. Found out his background was airsoft.
 
I can't believe that there is any question about whether dryfire works or not. I've always incorporated far more dry fire into my practice than actual range time, both for convenience and for budgetary reasons.

I can't make it to the range every day, or even every week.

Each pull of the trigger saves me $.10, and I still get good feedback on whether my sights are moving as well as building muscle memory. Dry fire even only 100 times a day for a week, and that's almost a $70 savings in ammunition for building/reinforcing some basic, fundamental skills.

In 2013, at one of my best Nationals, I only fired about 2500 rounds in practice the whole year, and shot about 1000 rounds (not including Nationals) in matches. 2014 was probably about the same.
 
I use the DPMS SBR BB gun in my back yard all the time. I have 4×25 round mags. Same length of pull as an AR. Same size lower. Red dot. Can pump 100's of rounds off in a half hour. Do any drills you can imagine. I use thin sheet metal targets of various types. Theres no question it sharpens skills significantly.

Also dry firing is HUGE no question about that either. Probobly with handgun more than anything. I shoot alot of replica pellet handguns too in my back yard.

Long range shooting can also benefit from dry fire for sure.

Dry firing is practicing one of the most important fundamentals of marksmanship.
 
Hard for me to find the time to get to the range more than maybe once every 4 - 5 wks or so for live fire, so bulk of my practice has to be dry fire. Wish I knew what I know now when I first started shooting and competing. Would have saved myself a lot of money, time and effort and significantly sped up my learning curve.
 
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