Dry Fire Journal

Y’all asked for it, so here it is. It’s not totally perfect, but its good enough. Get to work.

I’ve been right on the verge of making A-class in Production division for about 3 months now. I’ve got a handful of pretty good classifiers in the 75-78% range, and I just need one more classifier above 75% to get my average into the A-class range. I started feeling really confident when my scores were landing where they needed to be to make A-class, which was awesome, however I think it was that confidence that …

Last night I shot the Wake County Action Pistol match, and I had an off night. Not really sure what happened, but I just felt like I was spinning my wheels all night, and I couldn’t get traction. I’ve been practicing and dryfiring like a madman, but it just didn’t pan out for me last night. The only thing I can really think of is actually something I’ve been preaching on the podcast forever, and …

This morning I’ve been cruising through some old match videos trying to come up with a game plan of things I need to work on in dry fire, and I found something from an old Wake County Action Pistol match that I thought I’d share. Something I need to work on it practicing #dryfire from different positions. Look how I fumbled the draw, and then my plan went to pot and I hesitated while shooting …

During the summer months I brought my dry fire practice into the living room, and lined up my targets across the top of the TV. This worked great, but I wasn’t able to move as much as I would have liked, so now that the weather has cooled down a bit, I spent most of the evening last night getting the garage all set up again for dry fire. All summer I just used my …

Sucks. Yeaup, that’s a blister from the bottom of the trigger guard on my middle finger. I’ve heard people call this “Glock finger”, but I’ve had it happen with any pistol I’ve trained with seriously. Glock, M&P, whatever, it doesn’t matter. I guess I need to work on building up a better callous there…

I’ve been pretty consistent in my dry fire practice over the past week. This makes 2 weeks total that I have been practicing. I’m still working on getting a faster draw, but I am finally seeing some improvement. The first drill I’ve been working on is standing, hands at my sides, on the buzzer draw, and engage target at 7 yards with 2 rounds in the high A zone. The novice time for this is …

Over the past few months I have noticed that my progress as a shooter has stalled, and I am not gaining any speed at matches, and my scores are staying in the same place, while those around me are gaining traction, and getting better all the time. I do not have access to a range where I can setup stages and drills and run them live, so getting more practice that way is out of …