Global Sports: Dry Fire Exercises To Improve Your Handgun Accuracy

Friday, June 14, 2013

Dry Fire Exercises To Improve Your Handgun Accuracy

By Dustin Aaron


Plenty of people want to sharpen their handgun shooting technique. Everyone knows that the greatest way to do this is to shoot countless bullets on the practice range until your accuracy is where it needs to be. This can get very pricey.

However, you can improve your shooting ability by fifty percent without ever shooting a single bullet. Dry fire exercises are the easiest way to improve your handgun shooting ability, and the best part is that dry fire exercises are completely free.

Nothing improves your ability to accurately hit your target better than time behind the trigger. However, shooting thousands of rounds per month can cost you thousands of dollars a year. This article describes one of the best ways to improve your shooting without ever spending money on bullets.

Before performing these drills, you must ensure that your firearm is unloaded and completely empty. There should be no bullets in the gun and no bullets in the room where you are performing this drill.

Once you determine that your firearm is unloaded you need to acquire a penny. This penny will save you thousands on ammunition. Begin the drill by racking the slide back on your pistol in order to reset the trigger. The goal of this activity is to balance the penny on your front sight and pull the trigger back without letting the coin fall off of the front sight.

Execute this exercise ten times, resetting the trigger each time by racking the slide back. As soon as you can pull the trigger ten times in a row without letting the coin fall from the front sight, you will have mastered the exercise.

This drill will expose how well your trigger pull has developed. If you can pull the trigger without letting the penny fall off, then you are most likely doing everything correctly. You are pressing straight back, you are not flinching prior to the trigger break, and you are applying good follow through after you press the trigger.

Of course if you have a pistol with a large front sight this exercise will be very easy and may not be a good indication of how well your trigger pull is developing. When you are able to go ten for ten on this exercise your trigger pull will be as good as many of the pros. Now you just have to think of replicating this exact same trigger pull when you are at the shooting range and when you are in an emergency situation.




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