Wow, you really need to shoot more. I feel like I'm cheating at 7y. This was practicing up for a new carry gun. Almost ready to carry. Need at least 5x 48+ before I carry it. I mean I already carry a P-07, just time to replace it with a fresh one. This is a every 4-5 year thing for me. Old gun gets to live the luxury life in the rack of honor with the other retired carry guns.
>Wow, you really need to shoot more.
yeah i do, i'm constantly forgetting about locking the shoulder and my shots were lower. Now i'm thinking I should do more dry fire between shoots.
Alternate you live rounds with snap caps until it doesn't.
2 years ago
Anonymous
good idea too
also, do you know any drills besides dot torture that are good to practice? I really like the dot torture format because its written what to do
2 years ago
Anonymous
Depends what specific micro skill you are focusing on that week. Typically I dry fire the drill over and over all week, and then run it live at the range to make sure I put in good reps.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Depends what specific micro skill you are focusing on that week.
basics, shooting, reloading
2 years ago
Anonymous
>basics and shooting
That's a very broad category. Pick between trigger control, sight picture, or grip, and just work the dot drills, minus multiple shot transitions, being BRUTALLY honest about what your sights did and how you held the gun. If you can't recreate 80-90% of your dry fire score on range day, you're lying to yourself somewhere in the week.
Transitions can be done with Blake or El Pres drills dry, but all you're working here is not over- or under- driving your sights, maybe some trigger press if you have a double action pistol.
Reloads can be worked nearly 100% dry, but man, I have mixed feelings here. If pure speed is your answer, you're going to do Barret reloads all day, every day. But those par times typically do not account for a cover garment. And also, 9/10 times when your gun goes down in live fire, you NEED to look at the damn thing to determine the problem. So do you add a visual chamber check to your Barret reload? Should you work cover and movement in? Because nobody but USPSA typically does reloads in the open. Do you even care? Also, I don't care if it's at the wnd of a drill, if you go dry on range day, you hit an emergency reload every time. Maybe get used to doing tac reloads to top off between drill runs too.
There isn't much I have found for recoil control dry.
Anyway, the drills in Steve Anderson's drill books are good places to start. Apologies for the blog post.
2 years ago
Anonymous
thank you very much, i'd like to focus the most on grip and trigger control. I will do more dots then.
I used to do paper targets, got pretty good. I can hold a 12in. group at 25 yards with single action or a striker-fired pistol. Double-action Beretta? Ehhh maybe a 50% chance at 25 yards, I'm no Paul Harrell.
But I moved on to multi-angle metal targets. Body movements really frick with your aim and if you don't practice it, you don't know what you're in for.
I don't wanna oversell it. I just accepted it was good enough and wanted to move on to dynamic target shooting. By doing so, I realized movements to my far right (I'm left eye dominant) required me to rotate my body or else I'd miss it by about 5 inches at 12 yards...which was sobering.
nice one
tried one from 3 yards and failed miserably
though i was shooting glock
>> tried one from 3 yards and failed miserably
Wow, you really need to shoot more. I feel like I'm cheating at 7y. This was practicing up for a new carry gun. Almost ready to carry. Need at least 5x 48+ before I carry it. I mean I already carry a P-07, just time to replace it with a fresh one. This is a every 4-5 year thing for me. Old gun gets to live the luxury life in the rack of honor with the other retired carry guns.
>Wow, you really need to shoot more.
yeah i do, i'm constantly forgetting about locking the shoulder and my shots were lower. Now i'm thinking I should do more dry fire between shoots.
Lots of time spent dry firing is the key to shooting well.
i did spend time on dryfire but it all breaks down with recoil
Alternate you live rounds with snap caps until it doesn't.
good idea too
also, do you know any drills besides dot torture that are good to practice? I really like the dot torture format because its written what to do
Depends what specific micro skill you are focusing on that week. Typically I dry fire the drill over and over all week, and then run it live at the range to make sure I put in good reps.
>Depends what specific micro skill you are focusing on that week.
basics, shooting, reloading
>basics and shooting
That's a very broad category. Pick between trigger control, sight picture, or grip, and just work the dot drills, minus multiple shot transitions, being BRUTALLY honest about what your sights did and how you held the gun. If you can't recreate 80-90% of your dry fire score on range day, you're lying to yourself somewhere in the week.
Transitions can be done with Blake or El Pres drills dry, but all you're working here is not over- or under- driving your sights, maybe some trigger press if you have a double action pistol.
Reloads can be worked nearly 100% dry, but man, I have mixed feelings here. If pure speed is your answer, you're going to do Barret reloads all day, every day. But those par times typically do not account for a cover garment. And also, 9/10 times when your gun goes down in live fire, you NEED to look at the damn thing to determine the problem. So do you add a visual chamber check to your Barret reload? Should you work cover and movement in? Because nobody but USPSA typically does reloads in the open. Do you even care? Also, I don't care if it's at the wnd of a drill, if you go dry on range day, you hit an emergency reload every time. Maybe get used to doing tac reloads to top off between drill runs too.
There isn't much I have found for recoil control dry.
Anyway, the drills in Steve Anderson's drill books are good places to start. Apologies for the blog post.
thank you very much, i'd like to focus the most on grip and trigger control. I will do more dots then.
>7 yards
Do you even shoot OP?
It's a decent range for a dot torture drill. Do better and post it.
>>Do you even shoot OP?
I shoot a bit.
Brand new bone stock CZ P-07.
2nd Dot Torture I've shot with this gun.
Please post all the great runs you have shot.
I think the P-07 is very underrated, but we can probably blame CZ for that.
Nice job on the one handers.
> P-07
Those were all double action pulls, barring the reload and transition drills, right, CZ Anon?
All shots fired per the description on each circle.
I used to do paper targets, got pretty good. I can hold a 12in. group at 25 yards with single action or a striker-fired pistol. Double-action Beretta? Ehhh maybe a 50% chance at 25 yards, I'm no Paul Harrell.
But I moved on to multi-angle metal targets. Body movements really frick with your aim and if you don't practice it, you don't know what you're in for.
>12in. group at 25 yards
Texas star can be a misery, but bruh, that's a 4+" circle at 10y. I bet you did better than that.
I don't wanna oversell it. I just accepted it was good enough and wanted to move on to dynamic target shooting. By doing so, I realized movements to my far right (I'm left eye dominant) required me to rotate my body or else I'd miss it by about 5 inches at 12 yards...which was sobering.
me on 4
Frick off Hunter