JimConway
Instructor
In a class for security guards this past weekend, we had a problem.
The security company did not send the amount of ammo needed to shoot the course as planned.
In fact, they only had about 60% of the needed ammo.
Mike and I decided that the only way to make the class work was to add a lot of dry firing to the course curriculum. There were three students in the class. Two were typical shooters, in that they owned handguns and shot occasionally. These two students had no real grasp of shooting basics.( Stance, grip, trigger manipulation, etc.) The third student had severe arthritis in his hands and his finger was bent at an odd angle. We knew that we had a problem that had to be solved. Mike spent all of his time with the third student. The student could not hold the gun or manipulate the trigger in what most folks would describe as a normal fashion. Mike solved that problem be coming up with a very unorthodox grip and trigger manipulation method.
To make a long story much shorter, The students dry fired a lot and learned to call their shots. They not only learned to call their shots but did it very well. They all had to shoot and pass the MPTC handgun test which requires a minimum passing score of 80 out of 100 possible points. The result was that their scores were a 98, a 96 and a 92. That translates to a class average of 95.3 We were impressed and will be including a lot more dry firing in all of our classes from now on.
Comments??
The security company did not send the amount of ammo needed to shoot the course as planned.
In fact, they only had about 60% of the needed ammo.
Mike and I decided that the only way to make the class work was to add a lot of dry firing to the course curriculum. There were three students in the class. Two were typical shooters, in that they owned handguns and shot occasionally. These two students had no real grasp of shooting basics.( Stance, grip, trigger manipulation, etc.) The third student had severe arthritis in his hands and his finger was bent at an odd angle. We knew that we had a problem that had to be solved. Mike spent all of his time with the third student. The student could not hold the gun or manipulate the trigger in what most folks would describe as a normal fashion. Mike solved that problem be coming up with a very unorthodox grip and trigger manipulation method.
To make a long story much shorter, The students dry fired a lot and learned to call their shots. They not only learned to call their shots but did it very well. They all had to shoot and pass the MPTC handgun test which requires a minimum passing score of 80 out of 100 possible points. The result was that their scores were a 98, a 96 and a 92. That translates to a class average of 95.3 We were impressed and will be including a lot more dry firing in all of our classes from now on.
Comments??
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. That's kind of what I thought of doing but didn't know if that would be effective/proper or not. Not that I thought it would hurt the gun, obviously doing it by hand is a lot less stress than a round going off, but more from a repeatable learning process standpoint.
