Hi Burt,
Do you have 150 rounds, a outside the waistband holster and free this Saturday?
I do have 150 rds depending on what fire arm rifle/pistol and I work @ 3 Saturday, only problem is I know this sounds stupid is the ammo I do have is for shtf and with ammo being so expensive and or hard to find i really hate to use what I have stored up, I don't have the luck of financial affording ammo just when I want, I could try and find some cheap 45 ammo if available, as for the holster it's the junk one I got in the kit not what I feel comfortable ever carrying
Vert has it right. Dry fire, dry fire, dry fire.
Snap caps aren't even really required for most guns.
Save that ammo unless you are swimming in it.
Use your google. Tons of information on dryfire online. Study up, do drills or your own plan. Learn how to check your work.
Most of all understand how to BE SAFE while dry firing. The Four Rules still apply...
+1 for this, I also purchased a dryfire mag to help with followup shots. I travel alot and use this in my hotel room, it has greatly improved my accuracy. Highly recommended!!I might suggest looking at getting a Mantis 10. These are absolutely one of the best training devices. It measures your accuracy in both dry fire and live fire mode. It measures your draw speed and accuracy. Awesome tool.
I am limiting myself to 50 rounds of 9 mm on range days and then I switch to .22. I don't like it, but until I see an end in sight for all this, I'm going to be conservative.
When I got my red dot, I pretty much knew I was going to have to dry fire so I could learn how to find the "dot". It was very helpful. Now I do different drills using Ben Stoeger's Dry Fire Revisited book.
I am barely into the book since I want to really drill each one a lot before I add facets to it.
I do use dummy rounds for slide manipulations. For awhile I was practicing reloads on closed slide. I know I got pretty good at getting "muscle memory" because at the range, I reloaded and forgot to rack the slide.
I am confident that a consistent dry fire routine with weekly live fire, even with reduced rounds, will have me come out in spring a better shooter.
At least a better shooter than when I went once every couple months and shot up 200 rounds with zero dry fire.
Oh, and though money is tight, get a timer. Put it on your Christmas list. Using a timer has been a game changer for me in both live and dry fire.
I'm wanting to get the mantis system to help my shooting, not as fun as going to a range but times are tough, I wish there was a indoor range that you could shoot at that lets you practice the "run and gun" stuff like airsoft but for real guns.
It is a shame but it is never going to happen. It is not a practical use of space and the range cannot afford to allow a small group of shooters to swallow up the whole range. The other things is many shooters that go to indoor ranges cannot handle run and gun.