What is dryfire?

Dryfire is the process of manipulating, aiming, and triggering your firearm without ammunition. Dryfire is an essential component of learning to shoot well. There are two principal reasons for this: 1) developing proficiency with any motor skill requires a significant amount of repetitions and livefire is seldom enough, and 2) underlying bad habits, such as flinching (anticipation of the overpressure event), eye blinking, lack of followthrough are difficult to detect during livefire, except by a skilled diagnotician (coach). All top shooters in the world incorporate a significant amount of dryfire into their training regimens, some for hours each day.

There are also significant resource constraints that affect the ability of shooters to train livefire also. Ranges become scarcer every day. Ammunition prices have risen to unprecedented levels, and sometimes, ammo is simply not available. Peoples' lives get busier all the time, which lowers practice on their priority list. The resource constrained training environment is not going to go away and, most likely, will continue to worsen. Without a way to do training that does not involve a range trip and ammo, many people will not practice at all. This is a disaster in the making. Dryfire provides an effective way to practice in the resource constrained environment.

There are issues with dryfire, however. It is usually conducted in an unfocused and haphazard fashion (grabasstic gunclicking in the words of one client). Frequently, appropriate safety measures are not observed, either.

By having one or more pre-established dryfire regimens, both of the issues can be overcome. Your profiiciency level can increase rapidly at little cost, both in terms of time and money. The training materials available on this website provide structure and efficiency for your practice sessions, regardless of your resource constraints. Please visit the eShop for more information.

"Focus on the object, not on the obstacle." - DEA

"Practice is the best of all instructors."  * Maxim 439 - Sententiae by Publilius Syrus