Thread: Shooting training

Hi Mimms,

Thanks for reading and adding to my outline in the other post. It's by no means the last word and all recommendations are welcome !

You're right of course, you don't shoot from having forced all breath out of your lungs. I would have called it a comfortable 80-90% pretty much as when you're breathing normally.

Regarding dry firing, the difference with a centrefire is that you can practice hundreds of shots in your own home without making as racket. I usually set up a target at 20m and do 5x standing (deliberate), 5x kneeling, 5x sitting 5x prone and 5 x snap, starting with the rifle slung over my shoulder from standing in 4 different directions bringing the gun up and firing in 1 second.

Lead on paper gives the best feedback, although its not quite as good for checking sub parts of technique like trigger release, flinch and follow through. I try and do some positional shooting in live fire at the range when I get the chance if I'm sighting in or rifle testing. I also shoot 4 positions twice a month with the 22, indoor so don't do much dry fire with that. Its harder to arrange dry fire with a 22 because there aren't any durable snapcaps and rimfire mechanisms all hit the firing pin onto the chamber and the manufacturers don't recommend it. They don't recommend doing hundreds with a centrefire either but a dozens seems OK.

For sure, you need to practice with the gun you're going to use and its best not to have too many different ones as far as skills is concerned.