Dry Fire 2023 August Day 12

Hi everyone, welcome to DryFi Chal— Day 12, that's where we're at today. All right, so we've done draws, we've done reloads, um, sight picture. I need to work on sight picture. Last night when I was doing my practice, I had to keep closing my eye because I wasn't able to see my sights with both eyes. Now, some people shoot with one eye closed all the time, but this is a lot of work. It's much easier to shoot with both eyes open once you learn how. When I was training with Jay, he taught me this thing where I close one eye, put my finger over something, and then open my eye to the point where I can only see one finger. Because if you try this right now, and I don't know, I tell people, put your finger over my nose. So if you extend your index finger, put it— close one eye, right? When you're— if you're— this is how you shoot, um, cover something up and then open your other eye, usually most of us see our finger split. I've done this long enough that I don't even see the finger split very often, but for some reason I'm having a hard time seeing my sights. And yes, maybe I need glasses, but we're not going there yet. All right, um, I also want to share something from Ben's book because again, resources are good because my knowledge didn't come out of my head. My knowledge came from other people. I introduced you to Annette Evans last week. Ben and Annette are actually friends. The shooting community is small. So from Ben's book here, a couple things we talked about that's super important. Every time you draw from the holster, you want the exact same grip. Second, this is what we're going to work on today. When you draw and aim the pistol, you need to see the same thing every time. You want to be able to look at something, drive the gun there, and see your sight picture the way it's supposed to be. Now, why are we doing dry fire? Well, Ben summed it up really well here when he said, "Absolutely everything on the list can be developed in dry fire without the use of any live ammunition. Of course, you should go shoot live ammunition occasionally to confirm that you're— you can actually do these things." but the actual training and development can be done without leaving your home. This is one of those things that as competitive shooters, we do this all the time. Now, when I talked to Mario when we started this dry fire challenge back in July, he said that in the military they do it as well. They'll do the same rep over and over again. And also in Ben's book is some researchers and scientists say that takes anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 repetitions to learn a new skill. I think I'm going to make that into a poster because the amount of students who come through this room and think that they're just going to pick up a gun and start shooting and it should be easy and they can't understand why they don't get it because it's supposed to be so easy. I'm like, I need to have that large somewhere there. I'm running out of space, but I'll figure somewhere to put it. And the last thing that I put in here, or sorry, highlighted, right? Mistakes happen, failure happens. Don't hide from it, attack it head-on. And if you go to day 11, which was just yesterday when I was doing reloads, one of the reloads you get to see me do was the magazine going flying because I missed. So that was a mistake. Do we want mistakes? No. Do we stop because we made a mistake? Also know. So today's lot to dry fire for moi is simply looking at a target, pushing the gun out, and being able to see my sights. And as you can see, I still need to close my eyes. Um, and here's the thing that I've learned trying this also, is it depends on the target. So I'm actually going to look at the paper targets that I have over there versus trying to pick a spot on the wall, which I should be able to do, but for whatever reason I'm having a challenge, so up, see my sights on target, come back down, look at my target, see my sights on target, come back down. Now, the other thing Ben talks about is, so I'm looking at a, a spot, I bring my sights up, I look at the next spot, I need to be able to bring my sights to that thing that I am looking at, and I need to be able to see it. So those are the eye exercises I'm going to do today. I will not keep you on here for all of that, but any comments, questions, concerns, let me know. And I don't know when this book came out. I've had it for a while. And yeah, you too can get it on Amazon because that's where everything is, but then also there's also a Ben Stover store somewhere online. But if you want to learn more about dry fire, here's another resource that I use that you you can try. All right, bye everybody, talk to you later.