ALL SAFETY RULES APPLY! These drills should be performed at the RANGE or an appropriate area, do it dry, with an UNLOADED FIREARM!

Always abide by the four rules of gun safety:

1.      All guns are loaded. (Treated as such)

2.      Do not point the muzzle at anything you are not willing to destroy.

3.      Finger off the trigger, out of the trigger guard until sights are on target.

4.      Be sure of your target and foreground/background

Let’s talk about Presentation from the holster and doing it as a Dry Practice exercise with 1 EYE OPEN.  What the heck is this? This is the BASIC presentation, to get your handgun from the holster to “sights” on target, AND YOU CLOSE THE NON-DOMINATE EYE to get the 100% focus on the front sight!  OK, this technique IS required to guarantee that “LONG” shot or a close precision hit like a hostage takers eye socket, or just shoot a nice tight group.

You must learn that situations dictate the amount of precision sighting required for a hit, is measured in distance and target size.  More about this subject in the 2 EYE OPEN blog and the advanced Dry Practice Programs that will teach you the difference between shooting 3 feet OR 15 yards, as an example,  3’  -   2 eyes,   15yds   -   1 eye open. You need to learn the 1-EYE OPEN method first, then move on to more advanced techniques.

Everyone at ATAC Training courses trains with semi-auto pistols, but the firearms are carried in variety of locations. It does not matter what type or brand of handgun you run, but you are ABSOLUTLLY NUTS if you don’t Dry Practice with it from the location you carry it!  THIS IS THE DRILL THAT MUST BE REPEATED OVER AND OVER UNTIL THE PRESENTATION BECOMES A REFLEX ACTION!  THIS MIGHT SEEM BORING, BUT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT IF YOU WANT HIGHER SKILL LEVELS.

Understanding know and unknown distances prior to starting:

Start with establishing a known distance.  As you begin, or if you think you have judging distances mastered, that doesn’t mean you DON’T NEED to practice the basics.   Judging unknown distances is a stand-alone exercise.  On the other hand, we will give you two methods.  There are all types of controversy out there on one or both eyes open when shooting.  Lets keep it simple; if you were going to push a thread through a needle you would shut one eye.  Yes, we shoot with both eyes open and the conditions and distances will dictate using a dominant eye only or both eyes open.  Lets move forward and give you a simple solution.  From 7 yards and in you can get away with hitting “close enough” to your intended point of impact.  But, it will only be close to rather than the exact intended point of impact.  (As you read further down, between steps 3 - 4 you need to learn to shift your focus.) For those of you that think you only need to shoot with both eyes open, here is a question for you.  If you were held by the neck as a hostage and the hostage taker only exposed one eye every few seconds. Would you tell the cop, SWAT, or XXXX to, “use both eyes, it is faster, just shoot it is not a precision shot”. I doubt it, your exposed to all types of errors which could be fatal.  The point is, at any distance you need to guarantee the hit, not hope for the hit.  Yes, you may think this is advanced; no it is the basic fundamentals. This is not an range drill trying to hit a big steel plate; you are trying to ht a quarter over and over.  Then be able to pick up the pace.  As you excel in your skills, you need to ALWAYS give yourself a refresher course on distancing while shifting your focus from the target to the top of the front sight post.  After time you will develop a natural point of aim, which will ONLY last as long as your continuing education does.  So lets dry practice at 7 yards with one eye for now.  You can go to the next stage of both eyes open after you have performed at least 1,000- 2,000 dry presentations.  In our advanced programs we explain in great detail with video of what happens as you back up and forget to close that eye.  It a tactical environment, you may have to keep both eyes open to have a wider field of view.  But before you go off and start point shooting, get the basics down.  It is a safe number to say if you have 10,000 rounds through your pistol and 2 - 3 times as much dry practice, then you can move on to more advanced tactics with both eyes open.  In the end, regardless of how much you have trained just remember, if it is a precision shot, use your dominant eye only!  You may only get that one shot.

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Dry practice is the act of manipulating and practicing with an UNLOADED firearm in a safe manner; identical to the skills you practice on the range with live ammunition.  You should dry practice on the range, or other appropriate locations.

You should be implementing dry practice into your firearm’s routine, as it will drastically improve your firearm handling skills. Dry Practice IS the Skill Builder!  Shooting well is NOT an inherited trait – or perhaps a “natural” talent?  As with any accomplishment in life, you have to work for it.  Your ability to shoot well with a firearm is related to your hand-eye coordination and the effort you spend dry practicing your skills over and over again while those skills develop into the learned skill recorded by your brain, some people call it “Muscle Memory”. (Muscle memory is the increased accuracy of an activity through repetition, programming your brain.)  Advanced levels and techniques are the mastery of the basic fundamentals. You must first master these basics, which takes time, effort and lots of practice.

While practicing with the firearm platform, ALL SAFETY RULES APPLY and all ammunition must be removed from the training area.  Dry practice becomes dangerous if you get lazy or comfortable and complacent with the learning process.  You do not want an accidental discharge with your firearm, and/or nervously tracking the path of your bullet through your house.

Always abide by the four rules of gun safety:

1. All guns are loaded. (Treated as such)

2. Do not point the muzzle at anything you are not willing to destroy.

3. Finger off the trigger, out of the trigger guard until sights are on target.

4. Be sure of your target and foreground/background

So why not just go shooting more often?  It is fun to shoot, but burning through cases of ammunition could be non-productive to your skills, There are many great benefits of dry practicing you would miss if all you do is shoot live cartridges.  Practice the entire sequence of shooting, which includes presentation from the holster, sight alignment, sight picture, trigger control and follow through.  As you dry practice, pressing straight back the trigger, 100% focused on the front sight, you must pay attention to any slight movement of the front sight, which will affect the accuracy of the shot, resulting from a mash, flinching or bad trigger control.  You must to be 100% focused as you dry practice, or it becomes a waste of time, or much worse, ingraining bad habits that are hard to fix.

Dry-Practice each skill you would normally perform while shooting with live ammo, whether you are training for a fight or just shooting paper targets at the local range.  Will it make you a better shooter?  Yes!  For each shot taken on the range, you should be dry pressing your trigger – or whatever skill you are working on – at least 50 times more than you do when shooting with live ammo.  It takes dedication to continue the hard work required for accurate dry practice. Good things happen for people who have the desire and determination to increase their skill levels!  It will help to take 20-30 minutes time out of your day for unbelievable advancement of your shooting skills and ammunition costs nothing.

Try this:  Practice “perfect” trigger presses 10 minutes each day for 2 weeks. Clear your firearm and get the ammunition out of the area, chamber check again telling yourself out loud “This gun is not loaded”, align sights on your target, focus 100% on the front sight, place the center of the pad of your index finger on the trigger and take the slack out, start to build the pressure until you achieve a surprise break (gun goes CLICK).  The front sight should not move.  Repeat as many times as you can concentrate and focus. If you are distracted, stop training and pick it up later when you can.

This would be the only time that getting a “CLICK” instead of a “BANG” is a good thing. The effort you put into your training will surface as you continue to increase your skills through different avenues of learning. Dry practice will absolutely make you a much better shooter.

Check out the Dry Practice programs for many of the weapons platforms on ATAC TV Firearms Channel for more tips and hints.

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Dry practice is the act of manipulating and practicing with an UNLOADED firearm in a safe manner; identical to the skills you practice on the range with live ammunition.  You should dry practice on the range, or other appropriate locations.

You should be implementing dry practice into your firearm’s routine, as it will drastically improve your firearm handling skills. Dry Practice IS the Skill Builder!  Shooting well is NOT an inherited trait – or perhaps a “natural” talent?  As with any accomplishment in life, you have to work for it.  Your ability to shoot well with a firearm is related to your hand-eye coordination and the effort you spend dry practicing your skills over and over again while those skills develop into the learned skill recorded by your brain, some people call it “Muscle Memory”. (Muscle memory is the increased accuracy of an activity through repetition, programming your brain.)  Advanced levels and techniques are the mastery of the basic fundamentals. You must first master these basics, which takes time, effort and lots of practice.

While practicing with the firearm platform, ALL SAFETY RULES APPLY and all ammunition must be removed from the training area.  Dry practice becomes dangerous if you get lazy or comfortable and complacent with the learning process.  You do not want an accidental discharge with your firearm, and/or nervously tracking the path of your bullet through your house.

Always abide by the four rules of gun safety:

1. All guns are loaded. (Treated as such)

2. Do not point the muzzle at anything you are not willing to destroy.

3. Finger off the trigger, out of the trigger guard until sights are on target.

4. Be sure of your target and foreground/background

So why not just go shooting more often?  It is fun to shoot, but burning through cases of ammunition could be non-productive to your skills, There are many great benefits of dry practicing you would miss if all you do is shoot live cartridges.  Practice the entire sequence of shooting, which includes presentation from the holster, sight alignment, sight picture, trigger control and follow through.  As you dry practice, pressing straight back the trigger, 100% focused on the front sight, you must pay attention to any slight movement of the front sight, which will affect the accuracy of the shot, resulting from a mash, flinching or bad trigger control.  You must to be 100% focused as you dry practice, or it becomes a waste of time, or much worse, ingraining bad habits that are hard to fix.

Dry-Practice each skill you would normally perform while shooting with live ammo, whether you are training for a fight or just shooting paper targets at the local range.  Will it make you a better shooter?  Yes!  For each shot taken on the range, you should be dry pressing your trigger – or whatever skill you are working on – at least 50 times more than you do when shooting with live ammo.  It takes dedication to continue the hard work required for accurate dry practice. Good things happen for people who have the desire and determination to increase their skill levels!  It will help to take 20-30 minutes time out of your day for unbelievable advancement of your shooting skills and ammunition costs nothing.

Try this:  Practice “perfect” trigger presses 10 minutes each day for 2 weeks. Clear your firearm and get the ammunition out of the area, chamber check again telling yourself out loud “This gun is not loaded”, align sights on your target, focus 100% on the front sight, place the center of the pad of your index finger on the trigger and take the slack out, start to build the pressure until you achieve a surprise break (gun goes CLICK).  The front sight should not move.  Repeat as many times as you can concentrate and focus. If you are distracted, stop training and pick it up later when you can.

This would be the only time that getting a “CLICK” instead of a “BANG” is a good thing. The effort you put into your training will surface as you continue to increase your skills through different avenues of learning. Dry practice will absolutely make you a much better shooter.

Check out the Dry Practice programs for many of the weapons platforms on ATAC TV Firearms Channel for more tips and hints.

AR-15 Dry Practice Series starts today on ATAC TV’s Firearm Channel

ATAC’s Tom Clarke & Mark Flinn cover the AR-15 / M16 Dry Practice on the range.  The goals of the other AR-15 Dry Practice programs such as, Combat Reloads, Malfunction Clearances are to end up with a loaded rifle.  Do not do this at your house and use the eye and ear protection.  The end result is muscle memory to become second nature, without the anticipation of recoil, sound and muzzle flash.

Explaining the reference points to look for on the target other than just a circle or “spot” to aim.  Identified you point of aim for your point of impact on the target.  Maintain correct eye relief with your nose close to the charging handle.  Keep your elbows down and in. Continuing with how you should use your gear, magazine carriers / pouches.  Dry Practice will

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Dry Practice Pistol Series starts now on ATAC TV’s Firearm Channel

Tom Clarke and Mark Flinn explain how important firearm dry practice is. Starting with why it should be practiced, it’s simple. Then explaining how to do it safely and also the reference points of a target, the interior silhouette rather than shapes. Continuing with how and what to practice your handgun presentation from the holster. Nothing is sugar coated; they are straight to the point and realistic of what really works, the basics! The realistic approach, covering the basic for your abilities, your environmental and tactical consideration so you can work with what works for your build and abilities. Tom and Mark go onto explain what will be ingrained into your shooting abilities from dry practice.

No, dry practice will not harm your weapon and it will only enhance your skills. Neglecting to dry practice will hinder your performance on “live fire” training. Dry practice helps in many areas of firearm training because the anticipation of recoil, sound and flash signature is not physically or mechanically present. Anticipation is a mental issue; it is simply in your mind. Most importantly, you must train slow