slybarman
low speed high drag 9-5er
- Feb 10, 2013
- 3,074
People. You need to tell me how dry firing helps someone get used to recoil/and or taming it? Pretty sure that's what the OP is about. There is ZERO recoil in dry firing. Dry firing helps someone keep "front sight and smooth trigger". If someone cannot get used to the recoil and learn how to ignore the blast and "work with it" i.e... resetting the sight picture after each shot, that trigger work could be the best in the world, it ain't helping someone to not cringe when the gun goes off.
Knowing how your grip works with the recoil allows you to get back on the "bullseye" and your good, smooth trigger control keeps the sight there.
I've caught myself flinching during dry fire. It is helpful just in terms of realizing you are in-fact doing it. I've done the drill where somebody hands you pistol and you are not sure of the top round is live or snap cap and caught myself jerking the living sh*t out of it. Until pointed out, you don't always know what you are really doing.
ETA: I guess I would say it is helpful in identifying/confirming the problem, but not so much in solving it.