I found it to be quite useful!!! Give it a try!!!
Cool idea. I'll have to try this next week, when time permits. When I dry fire practice at home I always try to hold on a small enough target that if the front sight moves, it will be obvious.... supposedly. Your suggestion sounds more productive.Here is a little trick that I learned from an old friend that I used to shoot with. He was a member of the Army pistol team, now know as the Army Marksmanship Unit at Ft Benning.
Take a sheet of blank paper and draw a 1/8" diameter dot on the upper third of the page. Tape the paper to a piece of plywood mounted at eye level. Check, physically and visually, that your 1911 is NOT LOADED!!!! Rack the slide back or just cock the hammer and place a sharpened #2 pencil fully down the barrel. Finally, use your sights to aim at the dot, while holding the pistol about 3/4" away from the paper, then carefully squeeze the trigger.
The pencil will jump forward when struck by the firing pin and leave a mark on the paper. Repeating this exercise will leave a "mini grouping" on the paper below the dot. Practice to make the smallest group you can! It is dry fire practice with a record of how you are doing.
Lineman, this isn't something like checkered paint or a smoke sifter is it?Here is a little trick that I learned from an old friend that I used to shoot with. He was a member of the Army pistol team, now know as the Army Marksmanship Unit at Ft Benning.
Take a sheet of blank paper and draw a 1/8" diameter dot on the upper third of the page. Tape the paper to a piece of plywood mounted at eye level. Check, physically and visually, that your 1911 is NOT LOADED!!!! Rack the slide back or just cock the hammer and place a sharpened #2 pencil fully down the barrel. Finally, use your sights to aim at the dot, while holding the pistol about 3/4" away from the paper, then carefully squeeze the trigger.
The pencil will jump forward when struck by the firing pin and leave a mark on the paper. Repeating this exercise will leave a "mini grouping" on the paper below the dot. Practice to make the smallest group you can! It is dry fire practice with a record of how you are doing.
Gator, here is a classic righty...I shot this pic after one mag. The first shot was almost dead center. The second shot is the one way out at 7:00. The next 5 were well centered. I've seen that chart, I've tried to concentrate and I always seem to have about 7-10% off. Always left. Sometimes low left.
Down where? Georgia??RO/Instructor at LGS says the first five shots are your best. It's down here after that.
What do the K&D represent? GiGi said Kill & Disable but I think the shots would be close together or within an inch or two..
Somebody explained it once on here. I they said it was a police completion target or something. They used those at the range I go to but have switched to a black target with 7, 8, 9, etc.
Nope, it really works! I didn't believe it myself, until my buddy demonstrated it. I was amazed watching him "shoot a group" with a pencil point!! It just miniaturizes the target and the group. The beauty is that you can actually see how you shoot along with your dry fire practice. Give it a try!!!
The K3/D5 like in the right hand shoulder of the target are points used in scoring a Kill or Disabling shot by some law enforcement departments.
