A shooter breaks down an IDPA match into its components to find what matters most: about 180 trigger pulls per competition. Trigger control is the priority, practiced through draws and reloads, then transitions come next.
Alright, dry fire practice. I don't know what day it is. I mean, I know it's Thursday, but I don't know what day of dry fire. Dry fire. So what are you going to practice for dry fire? Well, it depends on what you need to work on. For me, I'm working on an upcoming competition, so I look at what do I do the most of. Let's say there's 13 stages, so that means 13 draws. Right? So that's 13 draws. Now let's say on average at an IDPA match there's 18 rounds. So I'm taking 18 shots for each one of those 13 stages. So that means I'm pulling the trigger 18 times. Now the draw can be considered one of my pulls of the trigger, right? So, but the draw itself is by itself. So 12, sorry, sorry, let's say, let's make it easy, let's make it 10 stages. So if it's 10 stages and I've got 10 draws, then I've got 18 rounds that I'm sending downrange on average for each one of those. That's 180 shots. Out of those 180 shots, I'm probably doing roughly 20 reloads. So Why do I keep working on trigger control? Well, because I'm doing 180 shots, and so that's the majority of what I'm working on and what I get to be good at, or what I should need to be good at. So that's why this is dry fire practice. On it, that's my double action, and then I work on my single action, and that's it. That is what dry fire practice is today, again, for day 3 of dry fire. Well, it's not day 3. Still working on trigger control. So I'll scooch over here to my other targets, and I'll back up so maybe you can see. Hold on, I'll get even closer. Ready? Can you see my gun? There we go.
All right, so I'm looking at my sights, I'm pulling my trigger all the way through my double action, and I'm just moving my fingers, and I'm trying to not move my front sight. All right, one more time, one more rep, and same idea. Double action once because that's what's going to be for my draw, and the rest are going to be single action, and I want to be able to move this as fast as possible without moving my sights. Ta-da!
That is what dry fire has been today— more trigger control. Next, I should be working on transitions because if I've got 180 shots, chances are it's 2 on each target.
So I don't know, I'll do the math tomorrow.
