>I'm not say thats all you do and I don't
>think Karl is either but if you do it just 5/10 minutes a day or even
>every other day you will be amazed how much your shooting skill will
>increase.

The biggest problem most shooters have is poor trigger control and
dry firing will help with that.

One strange effect I've seen in people that dry fire a lot w/o doing
enough live fire practice is that they can develop a live-fire-only flinch.
In other words, when they know the gun is unloaded, their trigger
control is perfect, and when it's loaded, they flinch. Sometimes that happens
because their dry firing has made them so aware of when the shot is
going to break that they don't start flinching until the last instant
before the shot breaks.


From the shooter's perspective that's a hard one, because they will
see a perfect sight picture and believe that they are working the
trigger the same way as they do
in dry fire, but still miss. It takes dummy rounds snuck into
magazines to catch and fix that particular problem.

Shooters that don't dry fire have a harder time fixing flinching
problems because they don't have the same level of awareness of what
a good sight picture/trigger press is.

The only other thing I've seen as a 'negative' to dry firing (and
Airsoft and .22's) vs. practice with a defensive caliber is that when
the gun has less recoil it's easier to get by with sloppy
grip and stance technique.

None of those reasons are justification to avoid dry firing though.
The benefits far outweigh the minor negatives.

Karl