DRY-FIRE PRACTICE

Webinar 12 March 2021.

DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY AND SECURITY

 "We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.“
- Aristotle
 OBJECTIVE OF WEBINAR

• Demonstrate the importance of the dry-fire practice

• Share experiences on dry-fire practice
• Give tools for safe dry-fire practice
• Training considerations
• Exercise examples
• Give an informative platform for listeners to be able to
conduct safe and well thought practice session.
 PURPOSE OF TRAINING

KNOWLEDGE + PRACTICE = SKILL

• COMBAT SHOOTING
• Training for a Life-or-Death Encounter
• High Stress Environment
• UNCONSCIOUS COMPETENCE
• Develop a strong foundation of individual
skills and enhance the officer’s ability to
always think before acting.
• Foundation in the mental and psychological
skills can provide an optimum response in
times of stress in conjunction with a
maximization of an individual’s skills
• Tools for officers to react to a potential crisis
in a self- survival
• Confidence for the officer so that they may
adequately handle various situations.
 Benefits of Dry-Fire Practice
80-90% your shooting skills can be achieved by Dry Fire Practice.

Dry practice offers an effective and SAFE educational framework.

Dry practice is an affordable learning option allowing to significantly

reduce the cost of the training.

Dry practice is the safest way to practice Dynamic and Team Skills.

The biggest benefit of dry fire training is that it can be safely

done anytime, anywhere
 WHAT IS DRY PRACTICE
Dry fire for Fundamentals and Dynamic Practice, Individual and Team Skills
• Dry-fire training is the generic term for practicing
firearm manipulation with an unloaded gun.
• It involves everything you do with that firearm, from
fundamentals to dynamic drills.
• Think about all the things you need to practice to become a
more effective shooter:
- shooting positions, - grip, picking up sights, movement,
- tracking moving targets, barricades, trigger control,
breathing, front sight focus, natural point of aim
…the list goes on and on
EXCEPT

Recoil Management and Accuracy

 WHY SHOULD WE DRYFIRE PRACTICE
How do we acquire a skill, hone it, develop it and make it our own? From riding a bicycle to learning to drive, from
tying our shoelaces to nailing a muscle-up, what is the one constant variable?
Repetition. And failure.

• Gun manipulation is a Perishable skill – Any learned action diminishes with time.

• You are only as Good as you can Perform Today

• Consistency and Repetition to keep stimuli response fresh

• SAFE and Correct action in Dynamic and Team Tactics by teaching correct reaction and
action in constantly changing environment with no risk.
WHY DRY-FIRE PRACTICE WORKS
 CREATING SKILL

Gun manipulation is Perishable skill – Any learned action deteriorates with time.
• Practice is the repetition of an action with the goal of improvement, and it helps us perform
with more ease, speed, and confidence.

• When a movement is repeated over time, a long-term ”muscle memory” is created for that
task, eventually allowing it to be performed with little to no conscious effort. ... This process
decreases the need for attention and creates maximum efficiency within the motor
and memory systems.

• BUT muscles themselves don't really have memory. Rather, it may be the myelination of
neural pathways that gives these trainees and performers their edge with faster and more
efficient neural pathways.
 CREATING SKILL

CONSISTENCY and REPETITION over TIME.

How many repetitions are necessary for a basic shooter to acquire an automatism considered
suitable? 500, 1000, 5000? How many are needed to confirm that the skills are well acquired?
There are many factors such as personality, genetics, talent, the age you started, intelligence,
quality of the practice, or something else entirely that will affect learning speed.

Hence, for any skill you’re trying to master, it’s very likely that it takes time to become
extremely proficient.
 SKILL =
Knowledge + Practice

KNOWLEDGE PRACTICE

Accurate Planed
Relevant Goal Oriented
Up to date Relevant
Realistic Deliberate
Measurable
CONSISTENT
 HOW To Dry Practice
Practice is great, sure, but practice alone won’t make you an expert unless it is deliberate,
planned and consistent.
PRIOR TO TRAINING
HAVE A PLAN AND PREPARE

SAFTEY Methods of execution

Safety Rules Apply, - Objective
Location, - Train specific topic
No Live Ammo in the room/ Place of Dry Practice - Break down the Drill
- Deliberate
Use Partner to Check and Ensure live ammo is not present
- Use instructor to correct mistakes
 HOW To Dry Practice
THE 5 PPPPP'S
Choose the Objective – > ENHANCE THE REACTION TO FIRE ONE ACCURATE SHOT.

1. Sight Alignment/Sight Picture - > Ready Position - > press out ->, pick-up sights, align sights, proper sight
picture - > Focused on Front sight -> USE A SMALL TARGET SO YOUR SIGHTS ARE MOVING IT WILL
BE OBSERVED
2. Draw -> Grip - > pull -> hands join -> come to ready Position
3. Draw and Present -> combine the two previous practices -> Smooth is Fast -> ALL previous points apply ->
use speed that you can follow all the previous steps - .> Have instructor correct possible challenges.
4. Reaction time - > when the previous steps have been mastered -> timer set start and end time

DISCIPLINE ------ BE Honest, BE Meticulous, BE Consistent ----- MASTERY

Dry-fire TOOLS

• Laser Cartridges
• Laser app – Laser Training Software
• Snap Caps
• Dryfire Magazines
• Laser Pistols --- SIRT GUN
• The MANTISX
• AIR Soft
• Live Fire Drill Cards
• The Dry Fire Primer by Annette Evans
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