Practise with 9mm vs .22

I like blasting away with a .22 to warm up, but I believe you need to train the most with the firearm you're going to run the most. You can shadow box all you want, but you need to slug it out with someone in the ring to get used to fighting.:p
 
Training with a .22

Carefactor_Zer0 said:
I recently bought my first gun, a M&P 9, primarily for target shooting and IDPA. I'm wondering if it would be more productive technique-wise to buy 1000 rounds for the 9mm, or get a 22a and practise that way? Both cost about the same.
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In my experience, having more than 4 decades of experience in several styles of competition ( NRA, ISSF, IPSC), training with a .22 is very beneficial. Notice I did not say practicing, there is a difference. For a skill to become automatic (filed in the subconscious part of your mind, if you will), it needs to be repeated about 1500 times or three weeks of practice, according to sport psychologists.

Training in attaining and maintaining a perfect sight picture( or as perfect as you can manage at a given time) and subsequently pressing the trigger, and following through on the sights and the trigger and your mind, is fundamental to accurate pistol shooting. Dry firing is a definite must. You cannot neglect this very basic part of your training.

When after several months of consistent dry firing your sight picture has become pretty stable, you would then benefit from practicing these skills with a light-recoiling .22 self loader of good quality. Your progress will inform you when you are ready to switch to the 9mm. http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/images/smilies/new/canadaFlag.gif

Good luck.
 
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