I am a fan of dry fire practice. I recently purchased a co2 fired air soft pistol for this purpose. With an empty mag and chamber the trigger operates as if it was loaded. So I can dry fire without racking the weapon. I am trying to keep my flinch under control! Any experience or comments on the best way to do this?
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My advice is, if when you are at the range shooting you rack your slide then you should pretend your airsoft has a slide and conduct a racking motion just to keep your muscle memory going and squeeze the trigger just the way you normally do. Hope this helps.
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Iām not a fan of airsoft gun for dry firing. Everything is different. Gun weight, trigger, sights, grip.
It is great tool for force-on-force training, when you focus on techniques, not on the firearm.
If you are looking for DA capability (perpetual trigger press) - Iād recommend Dry Fire Mag.
Howeverā¦ I donāt think you will be able to learn how to control flinching without live ammo.
You can perfectly control flinching with dry pistolā¦ and it wonāt work once you shoot in real.
So far the best drill for this is " Ball & Dummy Drill". Your gun, live ammo, real results.
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I purchased a sig sauer co2 pellet pistol. Close to the same weight and feel. 20 or 30 magazine of pellets and the slide cycles when you shoot. Also goes ābangā although at a lesser volume. Great for fairly close range and gives most of the same feel and sound of the real thing. Link: SIG SAUER P320 Air Pistol | SIG SAUER P320 CO2 Pellet Pistol
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Just about any way you get your training in is good, and good for you for finding a way to get it done!
I dry fire my regular guns extensively just about every day. There is hardly a day when there is not at least one pistol loaded with snap caps/dummy rounds on my desk. My wife calls them my special paperweights.
For serious dry firing I prefer laser devices because they show the actual muzzle movement on the target in a way I canāt ignore it and force me to keep the trigger press perfect or suffer through that wobbly red dot that drives me nutsā¦
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Best trigger control device for practice - SIRT.
āDots, not Dashesā with SIRT, then āBall & Dummy Drillā with real firearm.
I havenāt found better method yetā¦
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I have a 45 and a 9mm,the 45 is carried in a shoulder holster,I wear snap western shirts and the 9mm is in an ankle holster,and I practice with laser snap caps in both calibers and have on demand lasers on the weapons and have 2 laser targets one is single and the other is an timed reaction target,and as I practice as i draw my thumb is on the thumb safety and my finger is always on the slide and i release the thumb safety as it comes out of the holster and as the on demand laser comes i put finger on trigger and fire, and this is point shooting,and have timed it and can draw,a and hit target in 1.5 seconds a little slower on the 9mm ankle,About 2 seconds if laying on floor,and also practiced with my riles at night with thermal targets and snap caps,have a snap on thermal the uses the scope that is on the rifle with adapter and the scope is a snap on,so any rifle can use the scope
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