How many days a week do most of you put into practice including, live fire, dryfire, visualization, drills, study, and physical fitness? I am a new SR competitor this year and train in some fashion almost everyday since I received my rifle on September 22, 2010. I also built a full distance XTC private range and am very fortunate to have such a facility. My first match is fast approaching!
Practice
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Keith Glasscock
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Well when the weathers nice and not raining every freaking day I always carry my rifle in my truck with me and stop everyday if possible at either the farm to hunt some groundhogs or the range just to git to know my rifle inside and out
Hillbilly
Hillbilly
Michael67,
For me, five days a week, firing at least fifty rounds a day offhand. I use one of Derrick Martin's dedicated 22 Rimfire uppers and can practice at home. One or two days a week I will slip in some prone and sitting, but the vast majority is offhand. I also go with the visualization techniques and the training diary with positive affirmations that Lanny Bassham recommends. If you can't do this, then dry firing is the way to go. Set your own regimine, but I'd say give it at least an hour a day. You'll get out of it what you put into it.
For me, five days a week, firing at least fifty rounds a day offhand. I use one of Derrick Martin's dedicated 22 Rimfire uppers and can practice at home. One or two days a week I will slip in some prone and sitting, but the vast majority is offhand. I also go with the visualization techniques and the training diary with positive affirmations that Lanny Bassham recommends. If you can't do this, then dry firing is the way to go. Set your own regimine, but I'd say give it at least an hour a day. You'll get out of it what you put into it.
Mike,
Dry firing is an absolute must for any highpower competitor. I was fortunate enough to shoot for the Army Marksmanship Unit for a few years so I dont feel that I need to practice every day but for a new shooter the biggest thing now is to get the positions down and get the muscle memory going. There are things that you can't practice by dry firing, such as reading the wind and overcoming your nerves in a match but it will get you a solid base. Good luck in your HP SR shooting career.
Mike Hoover
Dry firing is an absolute must for any highpower competitor. I was fortunate enough to shoot for the Army Marksmanship Unit for a few years so I dont feel that I need to practice every day but for a new shooter the biggest thing now is to get the positions down and get the muscle memory going. There are things that you can't practice by dry firing, such as reading the wind and overcoming your nerves in a match but it will get you a solid base. Good luck in your HP SR shooting career.
Mike Hoover
BoydAllen
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IMO Travelor has it right. I am reminded of my short and undistinguished golf "career". After teaching myself to swing a club, and playing for a while, I invested in a lesson or two, during which, I was able to learn to swing the club in the manner that the pro thought more proper than my previous technique. Because I had practiced for so long incorrectly, the correct swing felt strange and awkward. It would have taken a lot of lessons to unlearn my old swing, costing money that I did not have, so it is highly likely that my swing gravitated back to what it had been, or something somewhere between it and the ideal. For this reason, I believe that it is better to find a coach very early in the learning of a new skill, before bad habits become deeply imbedded.
In the past, when I spent some time in front of classes of youngsters, to make this point, I would ask them if you practice doing something incorrectly, what do you get good at? After a short pause, the answer would come back....doing it incorrectly. Perfect practice makes perfect. Slow it down, and get it right. Then you can increase your speed.
In the past, when I spent some time in front of classes of youngsters, to make this point, I would ask them if you practice doing something incorrectly, what do you get good at? After a short pause, the answer would come back....doing it incorrectly. Perfect practice makes perfect. Slow it down, and get it right. Then you can increase your speed.
drags said:
Drags,
Sorry for the delay here, didn't see the post. Some years back, Derrick Martin (Accuracy Speaks Gunsmithing) did some work with the rimfire adapters sold by Colt, Atchisson, and a few others for the AR-15. These used a steel chamber insert shaped like a 5.56mm round that was in turn chambered for the 22 LR cartridge. They were intended to allow AR owners to practice inexpensively by using rimfire ammo in their rifles. They worked just fine, but were terribly inaccurate, and weren't really up to snuff for any sort of serious work. Minute of tin can, at best. The barrels were the wrong size for 22 LR bullets (.224" for centerfire vs. .222" for rimfire). the bullets had to jump almost two inches before they found any rifling, and when they did, the twist was twice as fast as it should have been. Derrick discarded the chamber insert, and substituted a correctly sized rimfire barrel, with a correct twist and chambered it in the normal fashion. Total makeover, but it made a HUGE difference. With decent ammo, these things will shoot with most any bolt action match rifle out there, and is identical to your Service Rifle upper. Same weight, same profile, floated handguards, everything. If you drop it on your match lower, you're even using the same trigger. In shooting these, you can't tell the difference from them to your conventional competitive Service Rifle guns. Many of the other AR smiths and company's have since come out with their own versions, but they basically all follow Derrick's ideas and layout. Great training tools, especially if you want to practice this much.
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