For the sake of brevity here, my examples will be for prone shooting and once more I ask of you -how much dry fire do you partake in?
Dry fire is the key and so much less expensive that wearing out a barrel with a fullbore rifle as depicted in the photograph.
So how do you gain perfection without a result? Hmmmmmm... I see the point!
Right - the answer to this is once again with your ability to reproduce the method and within this is the example of my figure skater above and, the word ‘reproduction’.
In dry fire, each single aspect of the reproduction of the method is systematically put together to bring about the same routine. Every thing you do can be repeated and the dry fire method is the best way to reduce the expense but ensure that the process can be isolated and repeated.
There is a huge advantage in dry fire for small bore because the recoil of the 22 is hardly going to affect you, is it?
As you climb the ladder to perfection, you will find that even minimal recoil becomes a factor that now needs watching. This will become the training time when the rifle must be fired.
This is also the time when a champion figure skater must resort to assembling the method without being on the ice. This is called ‘the off-ice routines’ and a figure skater knows this to be extremely important, particularly when trying to place some of the very high level jumps within reach.
In my own experience, I always (yes 100% always!) did not fail to watch the recoil of my rifle after the shot was released. There are two extremely important reasons for this.
1. The recoil of the rifle, it’s behaviour, shape and resettle is the final indication that the shot just fired was correct. 2. The second and extremely important factor, is that you were watching the sights!
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This SMALLBORE Business
How many times have I written in this excellent on- line magazine, if your mind was anywhere else at shot release, you are not watching the rifle sights.
I know that if the shot I just fired has a recoil factor that resulted in very little movement, BUT RETURNED TO EXACT AIM... then that shot was correctly fired. This applies to all rifle sports and disciplines.
On my fullbore hobby horse again, this is the one factor that I have continually found to be at fault in 90% of full bore shooters. (NB) Only prone shooters! Even working with the Australian Palma Team, the number of top level shooters who cannot follow a shot through is astounding.
So right is my question, have you ever wondered why 90% of the matches are won by 10% of the
shooters?
Learning to dry fire is just the same challenge as learning to shoot. There are many details in the sport, even for prone shooting which is the simplest form. The details of your dry fire method need to be quietly disassembled into each and every single facet, and then made to develop into an overall picture. I have found that when I opened my mind and learned how to write down details, THIS was when I achieved!
I also found that dry fire, while being the easiest to find time to do, resulted in the method I developed that was so successful, all over the world of small bore. You see shooting is a mind sport and one of the most difficult questions I have ever had to answer is…….
Just how do you grow a brain? The answer is in the method.
Brooksie...
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