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06-26-2008
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| That's Mr. Plinker to you pal.   Join Date: May 2008 Location: Columbus
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 | Shooting problem The question is: Start from the basics (.22 shooting) or is there a fix? I'm currently anticipating recoil and can't get myself to stop.
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06-26-2008
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| Not your average Joe  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Indy
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| The best way I have found is using dummy rounds. If you have a revolver, this is the easiest. Just have someone mix fired brass and live rounds. Then shot each round. If the gun moves when you drop the hammer on a dummy round, you can see it. With a semi-auto, the dummy round can be a fired piece of brass with just a bullet seated. Get back to practicing on keeping the front site on the target and squeezing the trigger until it breaks. You shouldn't know or care when it breaks. If nothing fires, your front sight should still be on the target.
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06-26-2008
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| Patriot, Pater, Plinker  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Terre Haute
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| dry fire can be helpful. while you dry fire, concentrate on perfect sight picture, sight alignment, trigger control, follow through, etc. when you get to the range, slow fire with a surprise break. ymmv, but this has worked for me in past.
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| BOFH   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: GCC(GCM) d- s: a C+++ UB+++$ P+ L+++$ E--- W++ N+ o-- K- w O- M+$ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5? X? R tv+ b+
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     | Ball and dummy drills make a world of difference. Load between 1 and 3 dummy rounds in each magazine while practicing marksmanship.
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| Marksman  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Bloomington
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| You can also do the ball and dummy drill with a friend, where they load the gun while you have your eyes closed, you open them, they hand you the gun, and shoot. I must say though, I have always thought that ball and dummy drills are diagnostic, but not necessarily solutions. I guess if the gun doesn't go off, you get more and more used to "shooting" without flinching, but if you habit it bad, it seems like you would just flinch through the ball and dummy drill. Never been a big problem for me, so I never did the b&d enough to know for sure.
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06-26-2008
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| Pays the bills   Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: behind you
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| I have heard dry firing doesn't work for everyone because you know the gun is unloaded. But for me it works fine and I do that a lot. When I go to shoot the noise doesn't bother me because I use plugs and muffs and I have dry fired so many times my trigger press is pretty smooth and I don't flinch much (I don't think) |
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| Jeep XJ Owner & Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 Classic Rider  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Indianapolis, IN.
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06-30-2008
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| Marksman Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Northwest Indiana
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| Dot drills work well. Put a few dot stickers on your target, draw and fire into one of them, then reholster. Repeat. Up it to controlled pairs, or even tripletts as you get more comfortable. Doing this while doing a ball and dummy drill has helped me a lot. Went from the bottom of my weekly IDPA group of 15 or so to the top 4 or 5 after the first time I did this.
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| Sheepdog  Join Date: Apr 2008
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