I have trained by dry firing. It helps with proper grip when drawing, trigger control and keeping your sights on target. It also has smoothed out many of my Revolvers actions.
. . . what the hell did I just read?! :dope:With a handgun the simplest method is a pencil with an eraser on the end for a large enough caliber to accept it . Set a cardboard box on a stand and put a mark to aim at on it . Cock the empty pistol , slide the pencil , eraser first , down the barrel . Take steady aim at the aiming mark on the box from 6" away . Fire . The firing pin will propel the pencil hard enough to leave a dot on the box . Now , repeat until you can stoot 5 or more times and only have 1 dot at the impact point .
Crude and laugh if you will . But , it works .................
An easy and cheap way to to dry fire with instant feedback.. . . what the hell did I just read?! :dope:
It does work. I qual'ed expert with a revolver in the Navy right away, but always fell short with a 1911. One day, I wrangled an invitation to spend some time with a Senior Chief SAMI (Small Arms Marksmanship Instructor). A petite female Ensign also showed up. She had never fired a gun of any kind before. He set us up with 1911's and pencils, just like you describe. We kept at it for an hour. Then he took us both out on the range with live ammo and we both shot Expert, first time. That was shooting one-handed, BTW. I went on to compete with the 1911 on a Navy team.With a handgun the simplest method is a pencil with an eraser on the end for a large enough caliber to accept it . Set a cardboard box on a stand and put a mark to aim at on it . Cock the empty pistol , slide the pencil , eraser first , down the barrel . Take steady aim at the aiming mark on the box from 6" away . Fire . The firing pin will propel the pencil hard enough to leave a dot on the box . Now , repeat until you can stoot 5 or more times and only have 1 dot at the impact point .
Crude and laugh if you will . But , it works .................
Thanks . I knew an adult would come along and explain it to him . Navy and Marine competition shooters taught me the trick in the '60's .An easy and cheap way to to dry fire with instant feedback.
When I was on the 8th Army pistol team we used this method for trigger control a lot. The only difference was we'd put the dot on a piece of white paper and then tape the paper to any wall. And, yes it does work! (We used it with our .45 and .38 match weapons, the pencil didn't fit down the barrel of a .22.)
Anyone ever heard of the BarrelBlok? BarrelBlok
Allows for safe dry fire training with your own pistol. I have on for my G19 and like it a lot.
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