Dry Fire Exercises – the Kata of IPSC Shooting

Here is an easy daily regimen that will help build familiarity, repeatability and stamina into your shooting. Try to do your dryfire practice during the same general time of the day as you usually compete. Make sure that the gun is unloaded and there is no ammunition in your dryfire area!

Draws:

Hands At Sides

10 Solid warm-up

10 Fastest/Smoothest possible

10 Solid

Surrender (hands above shoulders)

10 Solid warm-up

10 Fastest/Smoothest possible

10 Solid

Misc. work

10 Draws to Kneeling

10 Draws to prone

5 Draws moving to a position

5 Draws off a table

5 Strong hand draws

5 Weak hand draws

Reloads off belt starting with gun out and on target:

10 Solid warm-up

10 Fastest/Smoothest possible

10 Solid

5 from standing to kneeling

5 from kneeling to prone

5 from standing to prone

50 Target Transitions on either miniature IPSC targets or the transition dots in the Practical Shooting Manual.

Find your weak areas (anything that you screw up often and increase repetitions until the problem is worked out. Make sure at the end of every draw and reload, you have a perfect sight picture. Do not "pop" the gun up and down, force a follow through of a couple of seconds on target everytime.

Until next time DVC!!

Matt Burkett

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Ken adds: Brian & I also practice our strong hand and weak hand holds.  This is especially useful for the IDPA Classifier, which has a strong and weak hand component.   Lacking any online or other information on this, we just hold for 20 second count, then squeeze a dry fire shot and call the shot.  Repeat 10 good times.  The goal is to build weak arm strength and to learn to isolate the weak hand trigger finger.