Dry Fire Help

I have just started to practice with my Glock 26 point shooting. I can hit almost anything with the sights at reasonable yardage. I am all over the place from a quick draw and just squezing the trigger. How can I improve on hitting what im looking at without the sights. Im shooting at silhouette's and Stay inside the outline but cant hit the same place twice. Are there any dry fire techniques that I need to know. I have looked online but everything I find are manuals and dvds that seem pretty expensive. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

You may have to fool around with several handgun types till you find one that works. Because of the handle angle on glocks, I don't think anyone would consider them "natural pointers". Probably a revolver or possibly a BHP would be the thing to look at.

Here's a decent read to get you started. There's some other ones dating back to antiquity if you get interested.

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THE place to start is "Shooting to Live" Fairban and Sykes.

Here is picture of one day of good instruction and about 500rds practice can do:



That was done by my dad after 1 day of instruction and practice. The idea being to draw and start getting hits on the centerline ASAP, at about the pelvic girdle and working up to the ocular cavity. The tape was all new at the start of the drill. This is 3 runs with a 16 shooter. Note 1/3 of the shots are in the blue, the remainder are in the masking tape.

When you dry fire try putting a quarter on your front sight and then pull the trigger without it falling off. This won't work with many handgun front sights, but it will with a glock.

When your at the range have a friend or fellow shooter mix dummy rounds(can be bought anywhere for just about any caliber) with live ammo in your magazine. You'll be able to tell really quick if your jerking the gun around. It's also great for malfunciton drills.

For point shooting, you'll get much better at this as you improve your trigger pull and sight picture, but you can always tape over your front and back sight.

Here's a link to "Shooting to Live with the One Hand Gun" by Fairbairn....http://www.gutterfighting.org/files/...ng_to_live.pdf

Why not stick to the sights?

Buy a shot timer, do your draws with a par time and slowly whittle your time down.

Dry fire draws without the use of sights is about pointless. How would you know where the would break? Sure you can improve your index after a while while conducting live fire, but you can see where the shots hit and adjust accordingly.

While competition related, buy Steve Anderson's dryfire book and a timer. With these tools, and some targets you can improve your quick draw.

Im not sticking to my sights because in a combat senario who has time to sight in your target. This gun is one of my carry guns and I want to be precise if I ever use it to defend me or my family. This is not for competition reasons. The baby glock is not the weapon I would use for that. Muscle memory is what I am after. I am curious what exercises would help me with that. Its so hard to find 9mm ammo so I cant really just get out and pop off all the rounds I have put up. Thanks for the suggestions, tips, and links.

Originally Posted by ar15m4guy

Im not sticking to my sights because in a combat senario who has time to sight in your target. This gun is one of my carry guns and I want to be precise if I ever use it to defend me or my family. This is not for competition reasons. The baby glock is not the weapon I would use for that. Muscle memory is what I am after. I am curious what exercises would help me with that. Its so hard to find 9mm ammo so I cant really just get out and pop off all the rounds I have put up. Thanks for the suggestions, tips, and links.

Then buy a laser or 22 adapter. Without something to mark the target all you are doing is snapping the trigger hoping you have a good index.

Reload, even with a Glock you can reload 9mm cases a lot if you keep the load to standard pressure.

I have been told by a Knox. Policeman that instead of a coin use an empty shell casing. He said turn the open end upside down on the rail. He said this is better because a coin wouldnt fall off as often. I have been doing this and at first it was pretty hard. The slightest movement will tell on you. Thanx for all the tips. Keep em comin

I forgot the best method, buy an airsoft gun. Great way to practice inside/close range.