Many people want to improve their handgun shooting ability. Everyone knows that the best way to do this is to shoot many bullets on the practice range until your accuracy is where it needs to be. This can get very expensive.
However, you can increase your shooting technique by fifty percent without ever firing a single bullet. Dry fire methods are the easiest way to increase your pistol shooting technique, and the best part is that dry fire exercises are totally free.
Nothing increases your ability to accurately strike your target better than time behind the trigger. However, firing many thousands of rounds per year can cost you many thousands of dollars a year. This write-up describes one of the best ways to upgrade your shooting ability without ever spending money on ammunition.
Before performing these drills, you must ensure that your firearm is unloaded and completely empty. There should be no bullets in the gun and no bullets in the room where you are performing this drill.
As soon as you establish that your pistol is unloaded you should acquire a penny. This penny will save you hundreds on ammunition. Begin the activity by racking the slide back on your gun in order to reset the trigger. The goal of this exercise is to balance the penny on your front sight and pull the trigger back without letting the penny fall off of the front sight.
Perform this exercise 10 times, resetting the trigger each time by racking the slide back. When you can pull the trigger ten times in a row without letting the penny fall from the front sight, you will have mastered the drill.
This exercise will expose how well your trigger pull has developed. If you can break the trigger without the penny falling off then you are probably doing everything right. You are pressing straight back, you are not flinching before the trigger break, and you are using good follow through after you pull the trigger.
Of course if you have a pistol with a larger front sight this drill will be very effortless and may not be a great indication of how well your trigger pull is developing. Whenever you are able to go ten for ten on this exercise your trigger pull will be as good as many of the pros. Now you simply have to think of applying this exact same trigger pull anytime you are at the shooting range and when you are in an emergency situation.
However, you can increase your shooting technique by fifty percent without ever firing a single bullet. Dry fire methods are the easiest way to increase your pistol shooting technique, and the best part is that dry fire exercises are totally free.
Nothing increases your ability to accurately strike your target better than time behind the trigger. However, firing many thousands of rounds per year can cost you many thousands of dollars a year. This write-up describes one of the best ways to upgrade your shooting ability without ever spending money on ammunition.
Before performing these drills, you must ensure that your firearm is unloaded and completely empty. There should be no bullets in the gun and no bullets in the room where you are performing this drill.
As soon as you establish that your pistol is unloaded you should acquire a penny. This penny will save you hundreds on ammunition. Begin the activity by racking the slide back on your gun in order to reset the trigger. The goal of this exercise is to balance the penny on your front sight and pull the trigger back without letting the penny fall off of the front sight.
Perform this exercise 10 times, resetting the trigger each time by racking the slide back. When you can pull the trigger ten times in a row without letting the penny fall from the front sight, you will have mastered the drill.
This exercise will expose how well your trigger pull has developed. If you can break the trigger without the penny falling off then you are probably doing everything right. You are pressing straight back, you are not flinching before the trigger break, and you are using good follow through after you pull the trigger.
Of course if you have a pistol with a larger front sight this drill will be very effortless and may not be a great indication of how well your trigger pull is developing. Whenever you are able to go ten for ten on this exercise your trigger pull will be as good as many of the pros. Now you simply have to think of applying this exact same trigger pull anytime you are at the shooting range and when you are in an emergency situation.
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